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The Impact of Community-Based Dental Education on Students

October 1, 2010 | Journal Article

This article from a special issue of the Journal of Dental Education highlights RWJF's Dental Pipeline program and experiences reported at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dental Pipeline Project.

Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care

National Program

Expecting Success was a national program aimed at improving the quality of cardiac care while reducing racial, ethnic and language disparities.

A Partnership of Two NYC Hospitals Trained Providers to Offer End-of-Life Care for Minority Populations in Harlem

October 17, 2008 | Program Result Report

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and North General Hospital trained physicians to provide culturally sensitive palliative and hospice care to underserved, minority populations and to provide such care to residents of Harlem and other communities.

Advancing Measurement of Equity and Patient-Centered Care to Improve Health Care Quality

January 12, 2012 | Program Result Report

Advancing Measurement of Equity and Patient-Centered Care to Improve Health Care Quality was a targeted solicitation for proposals to expand understanding of how to make health care both more patient-centered and more equitable.

Dartmouth Atlas Project

April 18, 2011 | Program Result Report

The overarching objective of the Dartmouth Atlas is to report local and regional variation in the performance of U.S. health care to policymakers and health systems and to provide interpretation of unwarranted variation that can guide policy.

Speaking Together: National Language Services Network

April 18, 2011 | Program Result Report

Ten hospitals throughout the country joined a collaborative learning network, developed strategies to improve the quality and accessibility of their language services, and tested them using five standardized performance improvement measures.

After Katrina - Combating Mental Illness

April 15, 2011 | Program Result Report

From 2007 to 2010, the Rapid Evaluation and Action for Community Health in New Orleans, Louisiana (REACH NOLA) tackled the city's mental health crisis through its Health and Resilience Project.

Telephone Interpretation Services Can Serve Hospitals Well

April 6, 2011 | Program Result Report

As the project manager at the University of Michigan said: "We could just grab the phone when patients came in who spoke languages for which we don't have an interpreter."

The Diabetes Initiative

April 19, 2010 | Program Result Report

The Diabetes Initiative and its individual projects have contributed to the expansion of diabetes self-management at the state level and nationwide.

Self-Assessment Tool Helps Urban Hospitals Address Sociocultural Barriers to Health Care Access

June 1, 2001 | Program Result Report

The National Public Health and Hospital Institute assessed the status and progress of urban hospitals in addressing sociocultural barriers to health care access.

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