Grassroots Public Health: Q&A with Shannon Frattaroli
May 2, 2013 | New Public Health Post
Grassroots Public Health: Q&A with Shannon Frattaroli
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Ladder to Leadership Fellow Builds Connections in a North Carolina Community
April 10, 2013 | Story
Christopher Wood turned to Ladder to Leadership for the skills he needed to move from patient care to management at a North Carolina cancer center.
Portland Ladder to Leadership Fellow Moves From Medicine to Public Health Advocacy
April 10, 2013 | Story
As a physician in Hood River, Ore., Helen Bellanca was comfortable as a medical authority but not in spearheading health care change. She became a Ladder to Leadership fellow and in the process a public health advocate.
Hospital Focuses on Community Engagement to Help Reduce Readmissions
April 8, 2013 | Story
Methodist South Hospital formed a multidisciplinary in-hospital team to develop interventions targeted at reducing the hospital’s readmissions rate.
Improving Health Care Quality and Equity: Considerations for Building Partnerships Between Provider Practices and Community Organizations
April 1, 2013 | Issue Brief
As many as 85 percent of primary care physicians (PCPs) feel that to achieve good health outcomes, it is as important to address patients’ resource and social constraints as it is to treat their medical conditions.
Locating Family Mental Health Services in Shopping Malls and Schools
March 25, 2013 | Program Result
The UCLA Family Commons is a new model of preventive mental health care that provides nonstigmatized, cost-effective education and coaching to help families with children from infancy to adolescence address common childhood issues.
Ashoka Looks Internationally for Great Ideas
February 20, 2013 | Program Result
Ashoka: Innovators for the Public sponsored an online competition to identify innovative health care programs in developing countries with potential to be replicated in the United States and selected three winners from 373 entries.
Utah Action Coalition for Health Focuses on Seamless Educational Progression, Nursing Residency Programs, and More
December 6, 2012 | Story
Working closely with partners, the Action Coalition is strengthening the nursing profession in Utah.
RWJF Community Health Leader Provides Vital Health Education to Immigrant Community
November 21, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Mixteca Organization, Inc., in Brooklyn, N.Y., provides a broad scope of health and education programs, including literacy and computer classes, English-language courses, and afterschool programs, to thousands of Hispanic New Yorkers each year.
Meeting the Community's Need for Dental Care through the Dental Pipeline Program
November 19, 2012 | Story
The Medical College of Georgia School of Dentistry expanded community-based education and increased the number of patients who received dental care as a Round 2 participant in RWJF's Dental Pipeline Program.