June 22, 2009
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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
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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
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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.
January 1, 2007
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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.
June 1, 2000
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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
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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.
December 1, 2011
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Program Result
Community Oriented Correctional Health Services expanded its juvenile offender program to an additional site and negotiated for a third. The program connects juvenile offenders with health services during and after detention.
March 30, 2005
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Program Result
The Ingham County Health Department, working in partnership with hospitals, employers, consumers and insurers in Lansing, Mich., created an organized system of care for county residents.
December 1, 2005
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Program Result
An Indiana University team organized a series of one-day dental clinics in Northern Indiana to treat Amish children for tooth decay and other oral health problems.
January 16, 2004
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Program Result
Starting in August 1994, a managed network of volunteer medical providers called Commun-I-Care continued ongoing efforts to provide non-emergency health care to the uninsured poor in South Carolina.