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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

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.

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.

Project ECHO

February 15, 2011 | Story/Video

A Force Multiplier: Spreading Medical Knowledge, Expanding Health Care Capacity

Program Results Topic Summary: Rural Health Care - Improving Access to Care

March 17, 2008 | Program Result

This report summarizes some of the lessons learned through RWJF-supported efforts to improve access to health care for Americans living in rural areas.

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.

Nebraska Launches Regional Networks to Provide Health Care in Rural Communities

March 1, 2000 | Program Result

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 Result

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.

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.

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