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January 3, 2011 | Book/Issue Brief
This issue of To Improve Health and Health Care, written by leading health journalists, experts from universities and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, provides an in-depth look into the Foundation's work improving the health and health care of the nation's most vulnerable populations.
November 8, 2011 | Story
After living in the projects in Altoona, Pa. as a child, 2011 Community Health Leader provides free van-based health care to the working poor.
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.
May 18, 2009 | Story
"The Foundation's investment will enable HEALTH LEADS to grow our simple, effective model for expanding the scope of clinical care and, in doing so, inspire a generation of young people to tackle the most pressing health issues in their communities."
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.
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.
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.