March 1, 2000
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Arizona sought to develop a community needs assessment and strategic planning process. Under the planning grant to its Department of Health Services, it launched pilot projects from 1993 to 1995 to test this approach in three communities.
March 1, 2000
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The National Governor's Association conducted three issue seminars and two policy forums to highlight innovative approaches to dealing with the multitude of categorical programs related to children's health.
March 1, 2000
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The University of Kentucky's Center for Rural Health established an on-call community assistance program that provides direct services and local training in two dozen counties that were working on recruitment and retention issues.
March 1, 2000
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The New York State Department of Health worked to address barriers to health care access in rural parts of the state and in its urban centers.
March 1, 2000
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The Office of Rural Health and Primary Care, State of Minnesota Department of Health, worked to improve both needs assessment and support services for recruitment and retention in the state's rural areas.
March 1, 2000
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The American Geriatrics Society, New York, and the Hastings Center, Garrison, N.Y., a bioethics research institute, co-sponsored the Congress of Clinical Societies, a two-day conference at the New York Academy of Medicine on October 7-8, 1996, that addressed ethical issues raised by the advent of managed care.
March 1, 2000
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The South Dakota Department of Health addressed the decline in the number of its rural practice sites by creating four Regional Coordinated Care Networks to promote primary care linkages in underserved areas.
March 1, 2000
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Trudy Lieberman, the health policy editor of Consumer Reports, wrote "Covering Managed Care: A Resource Guide for Reporters and Editors", which appeared in the March/April 1999 issue of the Columbia Journalism Review, New York.
March 1, 2000
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Oral Health America began planning a five-year program intended to establish at least 20 new model dental practices in underserved and impoverished communities across America.
March 1, 2000
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Program Result Report
The Center for Research in Ambulatory Health Care Administration developed, tested and demonstrated a national physician profiling system for ambulatory health care.