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October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article presents the findings from interviews with nine directors of community dental clinics who had students rotate through their clinics as part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's national program Pipeline, Profession, and Practice: Community-Based Dental Education.
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Consumer-directed long-term care service programs give participants the flexibility they want, while reducing unmet need for home and community-based services and supports. Their experiences offer valuable insights, guidance and encouragement to other states contemplating consumer-directed service expansions.
October 22, 2009 | Story
Alabama program brings preventive vision care to economically-disadvantaged toddlers.
November 1, 2009 | Story
Frances Stout, R.N., helped build the first nursing home on the Tohono O'odham Reservation in southwestern Arizona... and then came out of retirement to run it.
April 1, 2006 | Program Result
Project SHARED developed a community-based project to enable chronically ill, low-income people in two inner-city neighborhoods to better manage their own health and to engage in behavior change that supported health.
August 1, 2006 | Program Result
Shepherd's Hope, a faith-based, nonprofit organization in Orlando, Fla., that operates free walk-in primary care clinics staffed by volunteers, expanded the capability of four clinics and opened four new ones.
June 1, 2005 | Program Result
Staff from the National PACE Association conducted the PACE Expansion Initiative to promote, support and expedite the development of PACE - Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly.
March 9, 2009 | Story
Plagued by substance abuse, violence and poor health, young people in South Memphis had little hope for a productive future. They needed health care that focused on body, mind and spirit.
March 9, 2009 | Story
Few health care providers understood the languages or cultures of the Asian immigrants settling in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970s.
February 2, 2009 | Story
Poor, rural communities often are strapped for decent health care - sometimes because of sheer bureaucracy. How can private and public funds be leveraged to support excellent care in these communities?