December 1, 2003
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In 2002, the Association of Health Care Journalists created a guide for reporters and editors on how to report, write and edit stories focusing on the quality of health care.
July 1, 2001
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The US Schweitzer Fellows Programs, which enable medical, nursing, public health and social work students to volunteer their services in impoverished communities, increased the number of student participants and added three volunteer sites.
August 1, 2001
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The National Conference of State Legislatures educated legislators and legislative staffs, regulators and administrators about the health benefit component of workers' compensation, a system designed to care for workers who are injured on the job.
June 1, 2000
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From 1996 to 1998, the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, Va., carried out Final Gifts, a national research study of hospice volunteerism.
August 1, 2000
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In 1997, the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation in Washington produced and disseminated a journalists' resource guide on end-of-life issues.
September 1, 2000
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The Rocky Mountain Health Maintenance Organization developed and implemented a pilot service-credit-banking program in Mesa County, Colo., called the Time Bank.
September 1, 2000
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Oxford Health Plans, Inc., created its service credit banking program, called Partners In Caring, to assist Medicare members with nonmedical needs by recruiting and training community volunteers.
September 1, 2000
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Medica Health Plan created the Volunteer Investment Program to match healthy plan member volunteers with Medicare members who required companionship, help with chores, grocery shopping and other special services.
September 1, 2000
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Sentara Health System established a service credit banking program that recruited volunteers to provide supportive community-based services for enrollees of both its Medicare managed care plan and a project aimed at nursing-home-eligible patients.
September 1, 2000
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CareAmerica Health Plans, a for-profit health insurer in Southern California, launched its CareXchange SCB (Service Credit Banking) program in Glendale, Calif.
