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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Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound created SerVE, a service credit banking program aimed at attracting individuals who might not typically volunteer but who saw a tangible benefit in the opportunity to build credits.
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.
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.
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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CareAmerica Health Plans, a for-profit health insurer in Southern California, launched its CareXchange SCB (Service Credit Banking) program in Glendale, Calif.
July 31, 2008
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Project staff at Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton, Pa., expanded a program that relied on volunteers to work with geriatric patients to prevent and reduce delirium, an underreported condition that can result in higher mortality and morbidity.
October 25, 2007
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Service credit banking programs seek to help elderly people remain healthy, independent, and in their homes by enlisting volunteer caregivers to provide supportive services.
January 28, 2009
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Faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health established the Resource Center, to support the growth and development of State Pain Initiatives.
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.
