January 27, 2011
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Program Result
Prescription for Health tested the use of tools and evidence-based models in primary care to counsel patients to change four leading behaviors associated with premature death: smoking, risky drinking, unhealthy diet, and physical inactivity.
June 1, 2000
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Program Result
From 1994 to 1997, under the Michigan Interagency Family Preservation Initiative, the State of Michigan Department of Mental Health, Lansing, Mich., piloted innovative models for serving children and families, particularly children with serious emotional disturbances.
November 17, 2010
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Story
Couples might need to take steps to safeguard their relationships after the loss of a baby. A Clinical Scholar finds that family members, hospitals and care providers can help.
September 1, 2010
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Journal Article
Chronically depressed patients in primary practices are helped by a program that uses a care manager intervention and teaches self-management techniques.
April 18, 2011
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Program Result
Ten hospitals throughout the country joined a collaborative learning network, developed strategies to improve the quality and accessibility of their language services, and tested them using five standardized performance improvement measures.
April 6, 2011
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Program Result
As the project manager at the University of Michigan said: "We could just grab the phone when patients came in who spoke languages for which we don't have an interpreter."