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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.
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.
March 24, 2010 | Program Result
The Developing Families Center in Washington, D.C., provides health and social support services to young women and their families in the city's low-income, Black neighborhoods.
March 24, 2010 | Program Result
Shaniqua Ballard was living without much hope in a shelter for pregnant women, with little money and no health insurance, until she discovered the Developing Families Center, where she received obstetric and well-woman care, and enrolled her children in the child development program.
February 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Adding home health visits by community health workers for families already receiving in-clinic support from asthma nurses, gives their asthmatic children 24 more symptom-free days per year on average and also modestly improves quality of life for caregivers.
October 22, 2009 | Story
Alabama program brings preventive vision care to economically-disadvantaged toddlers.
August 25, 2004 | Journal Article
A Randomized Controlled Trial
August 1, 2003 | Program Result
Children's Hospital in Boston planned and implemented the Pediatric Alliance for Coordinated Care, a clinical service delivery model that facilitates coordinated, community-based, family-centered care for children.
February 1, 2002 | Program Result
Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) began as a program funded by the RWJF designed to encourage pediatricians to work locally to improve access to health care for children.
April 1, 2001 | Program Result
Starting in October 1995, Temple University Hospital expanded a pilot program to address infant mortality in North Philadelphia and provide a full range of primary care and preventive services.