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June 22, 2009 | Program Result
In 2004, four community health centers began screening their patients for depression and addictions. Patients were originally referred elsewhere for treatment, but the centers later hired social workers and a psychiatrist and began mental health treatment themselves.
January 28, 2002 | Program Result
Martin House Community for Justice Foundation established a health care center in the Wilbur section of Trenton that provided an array of preventive and educational health care services for low-income individuals and families.
October 1, 2002 | Program Result
The Ounce of Prevention Fund, a public/private partnership that promotes the well-being of children in Illinois, established a maternal and child health care center at the Robert Taylor Homes, a public housing complex in Chicago.
July 1, 2001 | Program Result
Halifax Medical Center formed a public-private collaboration – Volusia County Cooperative Health Group (the cooperative) – to expand access to primary and specialty care for underserved residents of the Daytona Beach/Volusia County, Fla., area.
April 30, 2000 | Program Result
From 1996 to 1998, staff at the Volunteers in Medicine Institute developed technical assistance materials for volunteers interested in creating free clinics.
January 1, 2007 | Program Result
Starting in 1992, the United Hospital Fund of New York created the Primary Care Development Program, which organized a consortium of NYC foundations.
January 1, 1999 | Program Result
During 1997 and 1998, researchers at the University of Washington Institute for Public Policy and Management assessed the needs of community-based primary care centers to participate successfully in managed care.
April 1, 2000 | Program Result
The National Health Council (NHC) commissioned papers investigating the future role of voluntary health agencies (VHAs) and a conference for leaders of VHAs.
June 1, 2000 | Program Result
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey examined why people use hospital emergency departments for medically nonurgent situations - a situation that occurs in as many as two-thirds of pediatric visits to emergency departments.
April 1, 2007 | Program Result
Staff from the national program office of the program Reach Out: Physicians' Initiative to Expand Care to Underserved Americans established and operated a technical resource center.