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A Story from the Pediatric Palliative Care Project

May 15, 2008 | Program Result

If all that mattered to dying children and their families was an all-expenses-paid trip to the Grand Canyon or the World Series, it would be easy enough to ease the pain of young lives prematurely foreclosed.

Introducing Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Services in Seven Intensive Care Units

May 15, 2008 | Program Result

The University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle created an intervention designed to improve the quality of end-of-life care in the intensive care unit (ICU).

The Medical-Legal Partnership for Children

March 13, 2012 | Program Result

The Medical-Legal Partnership for Children brought together pediatric clinicians, social workers and lawyers at three Seattle area medical facilities to address the unmet legal needs of low-income patients and their families.

Explaining the Increase in Family Financial Pressures from Medical Bills Between 2003 and 2007

September 9, 2010 | Journal Article

This article examines whether affordability thresholds of financial strain due to medical bills change over time. The increasing cost of health care is a central issue in health policy and out-of-pocket spending for families has grown faster than incomes in the past decade.

Betty S. Pace, MD

October 1, 2005 | Story

Pace added a second dimension to her career when she entered a fellowship training program in hematology/oncology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 1987.

Cross-Systems Financing Project Learning Community Creates Care Integration in Five Sites

November 10, 2009 | Program Result

The Technical Assistance Collaborative established and guided a "learning community" in which participants developed strategies to integrate funding for and improve access to mental health and substance abuse services in their states and counties.

Shannon Wiegand, Minority Medical Education Program, 1989

July 27, 2011 | Story

Growing up in Alaska, she knew no female physicians, no Native American physicians and no physicians of color. "You don't know what you can do until you're exposed to the possibility," she says.

Valerie Cordero, Minority Medical Education Program, 1996

July 27, 2011 | Story

Just being in a medically oriented academic environment with people from a wide variety of backgrounds was valuable, Cordero says. "For me, it was like Wow - there are some Native Americans who are doctors."

Perinatal Treatment Services: Increasing Admissions to Treatment

April 28, 2010 | Program Result

The Perinatal Treatment Services, located in Seattle, is a residential and outpatient substance abuse treatment program for pregnant and parenting women.

Asian Counseling and Referral Service: Reducing Wait Time from First Contact to Treatment

April 28, 2010 | Program Result

The Seattle-based Asian Counseling and Referral Service agency promotes social justice and the well-being and empowerment of Asian Pacific American individuals, families and communities in King County, Wash.

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