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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.
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.
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.
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.
October 8, 2009 | Program Result
Like many Latino children, Esther Lopez, D.D.S., M.P.H., served as her parents' primary translator at their many doctor visits.
October 8, 2009 | Story
Satira Streeter, is being honored for her efforts to deliver culturally relevant, family-focused mental health services to children and families living in the historically impoverished area of Anacostia and surrounding communities.
July 1, 2009 | Program Result
The Health Research and Educational Trust collected and integrated information on patients' race/ethnicity, primary language and socioeconomic status into an electronic health record system, and linked that information with clinical performance measures.
May 28, 2009 | Story
"Health care reform without a critical role for nurses is not a health care reform that's going to be very successful in this country," says U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala, Ph.D., A.B..