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November 8, 2011 | Story
2011 Community Health Leader founds a New York nonprofit to educate Latinos about health, increase access to health care and provide other needed social services.
January 24, 2013 | Story
Ruth Murphey Parker's research has focused predominantly in two areas: medical education and health services for under-served populations.
October 17, 2011 | Story
Study by RWJF Scholar finds video-interpreting may reduce number of Spanish-speaking patients who leave emergency departments against medical advice.
August 29, 2011 | Story
Maren Coffman develops an interactive teaching method that helps Latinos with diabetes access care and manage their disease.
June 29, 2011 | Story
Jennie Chin Hansen builds and leads a movement to improve health, health care and the overall quality of life for older Americans.
February 2, 2009 | Story
The majority of health information provided to the Latino community often lacks language and cultural sensitivity, making it hard to understand.
February 1, 2008 | Story
Current Language Proficiency Testing Options
January 25, 2011 | Story
The guidelines created to protect patients making end-of-life decisions may have the opposite effect. A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Physician Faculty Scholar identifies problems and offers solutions.
November 20, 2011 | Story
Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth provided school-based mental health services and connections to various social services to Liberian refugees at one middle school in Bucks County, Pa.
November 20, 2011 | Story
Minneapolis, Imperial County, Calif., and Chatham County, N.C., sustained school-connected mental health services for immigrants and refugees started under Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth.