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A Story of Implementing Palliative Care in an Inner-City Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit

May 15, 2008 | Program Result

The Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) at University Hospital in Newark is the sort of place people land without warning: a gunshot wound late at night; a car accident on the way home from the movies.

Establishment of a Culturally Sensitive Rural Hospice Program for Alaska Natives

May 15, 2008 | Program Result

The Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation created Ikayurtem Unatai (Helping Hands), a palliative care program for Native Alaskans living in the 34 villages that comprise Bristol Bay.

FOOTPRINTS: Community-Based Hospice Services for Terminally Ill Children and Their Families: Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center (St. Louis, Mo.)

May 15, 2008 | Program Result

SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center and the Saint Louis University School of Medicine established FOOTPRINTS to serve children who were terminally ill and their families.

A Story from a Palliative Care Program for People Dying in Nursing Homes

May 15, 2008 | Program Result

If anything defines the transformation created by the palliative care initiative at the Pines it is the shift in the way staff members view their role in caring for patients, and the results of their greater involvement.

The Southern Rural Access Program

January 1, 2007 | Book

The most consistent priority of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has been to expand access to medical care for underserved individuals, a disproportionate number of whom live in rural areas. The Foundation has employed a number of approaches to improve health services for people living in rural areas. In this chapter, the award-winning author and frequent Anthology contributor Digby Diehl looks at a program designed to improve access to medical care for people living in some of the nation's most underserved areas?the rural South of the United States.

As Part of RWJF's Communities in Charge Program, Collaborative in Austin, Texas, Launches New Programs to Improve Health Care for Low-Income Residents

April 5, 2007 | Program Result

The Indigent Care Collaboration, a network of safety-net health care providers and insurers in the Austin, Texas, region, launched several initiatives to improve health care for low-income residents.

Southern Rural Access Program

November 28, 2007 | Program Result

The Southern Rural Access Program implemented a range of activities to increase access to health care services in rural, underserved areas of eight southern states.

Improving Child Health Services: Removing Categorical Barriers to Care

October 1, 1997 | Program Result

The Improving Child Health Services: Removing Categorical Barriers to Care initiative was a national program of RWJF aimed at integrating health services for children.

Post-Katrina, Mental Health Services Needed

February 15, 2012 | Program Result

Coastal Family Health Center staff was trained by Utah's Intermountain Healthcare on the "mental health integration model," which incorporates mental health care into primary care practice, and began to pilot the approach in its Gulf Coast clinics.

Consumer Beliefs and Use of Information about Health Care Cost, Resource Use, and Value

October 1, 2012 | Issue Brief

Increased investments in transparency—particularly of health care cost and resource use information—are meant to address the challenges of rising costs and inefficient care.

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