Ten Outstanding Leaders Honored for Improving Health and Health Care in Hard-to-Reach Communities
October 8, 2009 | News Release
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announces winners of the 2009 Community Health Leaders Award.
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Project Identifies 33 Indicators that a Community is "Elder-Friendly"
September 17, 2009 | Program Result
From June 1999 through September 2003, project staff with the Visiting Nurse Service of New York developed a survey and a process for communities to use to rate their "elder-friendliness" and use this information to take action to meet the needs of their elder population.
The Heart and Soul of Black Churches
May 17, 2012 | Program Result
Staff at South Carolina's Palmetto Project trained volunteers in Black churches to check blood pressure of church members and provide them with nutrition information, including ways to reduce sodium intake.
RWJF Receives Prestigious Gies Award for Outstanding Innovation
April 20, 2009 | Story
This honor recognizes RWJF's support of the Pipeline, Profession & Practice: Community-Based Dental Education (Dental Pipeline) program.
A National Center Supports Growing Number of Medical-Legal Partnerships to Advocate for the Health of Children
March 21, 2009 | Program Result
Since 1993, the Medical-Legal Partnership for Children at Boston Medical Center has provided pediatric patients and their families with legal assistance on matters that can affect a child's health.
A Community-Mobilization Approach to Preventing Domestic Violence
April 20, 2012 | Program Result
Close to Home, a Dorchester, Massachusetts-based organization, using a community-mobilization approach to prevent domestic violence, launched an effort to replicate its prevention program in three communities in Massachusetts.
Human Capital News Roundup: Rising Medicare expenses, community-based health care, breast cancer prevention and more.
February 23, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Health & Society Scholars program site director Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, MPH, and RWJF Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) co-investigator Christopher Ruhm, PhD, were cited in a Bloomber ...
Recommendations to Improve Access to Health Care for Prisoners Coming Home in Alameda and Los Angeles Counties
November 11, 2008 | Program Result
Urban Strategies Council led a coalition to design programs and make recommendations to improve access to health care for formerly incarcerated individuals who have reentered the community.
Ensuring Equal Access to Specialty Care
June 1, 2011 | Commentary
Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes), a disruptive model of health education and delivery, makes the medical resources of academic medical centers available to treat and improve outcomes for rural HCV patients.
Outcomes of Treatment for Hepatitis C Virus Infection by Primary Care Providers
June 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes), a disruptive model of health education and delivery, makes the medical resources of academic medical centers available to treat and improve outcomes for rural HCV patients.