New Jersey Health Initiatives
November 22, 2011 | Program Result
New Jersey Health Initiatives supports innovative projects by nonprofit, community-based organizations to improve the health and health care of the state's residents.
Access and Barriers to Care
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Dialing for Health Care
May 1, 2002 | Program Result
Health Care For All evaluated, upgraded and expanded Helpline, its consumer information and referral service that provides information and assistance to consumers who face financial, cultural or other systemic barriers to accessing needed health care services.
Access to Care Impacts Hospitalization Rates for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions
April 1, 2001 | Program Result
The University of California studied access to primary care in selected communities to assess whether hospitalization rates for certain chronic conditions typically managed by outpatient care are valid and useful measures of community access to care.
Survey Identifies Health Care Use and Needs of Undocumented Hispanic Immigrants
May 1, 2000 | Program Result
From 1996 to 1999, researchers from the People-To-People Health Foundation (commonly known as the Project HOPE Center for Health Affairs) conducted a survey on:
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.
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.
A Review of the National Access-to-Care Surveys
January 1, 1997 | Book
The authors of this chapter of the Anthology document the strategies used over time by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grantees tracking access to health care among Americans.
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.
Richard Payne, MD, PhD
October 1, 2005 | Story
As an undergraduate at Yale University, Richard Payne, MD, MPH, completed a BA in molecular biophysics and biochemistry. He was awarded his MD from Harvard University in 1977.