Project ECHO
June 14, 2011 | Story
This disruptive model of health care education and delivery enables primary care doctors in underserved areas to provide top-quality care for complex conditions locally.
Access and Barriers to Care
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Outcomes of Treatment for Hepatitis C Virus Infection by Primary Care Providers
June 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes), a disruptive model of health education and delivery, makes the medical resources of academic medical centers available to treat and improve outcomes for rural HCV patients.
Partnering Urban Academic Medical Centers and Rural Primary Care Clinicians to Provide Complex Chronic Disease Care
May 19, 2011 | Journal Article
Project ECHO enables specialists to partner with primary care clinicians in underserved areas to deliver complex specialty care to patients.
Project ECHO
February 15, 2011 | Story/Video
A Force Multiplier: Spreading Medical Knowledge, Expanding Health Care Capacity
Expanding Access to Hepatitis C Virus Treatment
June 11, 2010 | Journal Article
Specialized treatment for chronic conditions is often available only at large academic medical centers. Project ECHO is training primary care physicians in rural areas of New Mexico to deliver best practice care for many diseases.
Establishment of a Culturally Sensitive Rural Hospice Program for Alaska Natives
May 15, 2008 | Program Results Report
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.
Southern Rural Access Program
November 28, 2007 | Program Results Report
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.
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.
Nebraska Launches Regional Networks to Provide Health Care in Rural Communities
March 1, 2000 | Program Results Report
The State of Nebraska Department of Health launched five regional networks that have improved access to care in rural areas, offered managed care products to rural consumers, and enhanced recruitment and retention efforts of rural physicians.
New Mexico Follows a 'Blueprint for Improving Access' to Strengthen Health Care
March 1, 2000 | Program Results Report
From 1993 to 1997, the State of New Mexico Department of Health enhanced its efforts to recruit and retain primary care providers in underserved areas.