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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.
January 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
Investigators at the University of New Mexico (UNM) studied the effectiveness of the San Juan County DWI Facility to deter drunken driving in San Juan County, N.M.
July 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
The Pilsen-Little Village Community Mental Health Center developed and implemented community-based interventions that would address sociocultural barriers to health care for Hispanic Americans in Chicago's Near South/West Side.
April 6, 2011 | Program Result Report
"We would never have gotten this information if the doctor had just gone in with broken Spanish," said Beth Ebel, M.D. "Often you don't know what you're getting into with medicine. If you don't know the nuances of the situation it can be a problem."
June 13, 2013 | Program Result Report
Fresh Ideas was a targeted solicitation for proposals that aimed to give immigrants and refugees the tools and support they need to improve and maintain their own health.
National Program
This program, the first of its kind to integrate quality improvement techniques with hospital-based language services.
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.
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.
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.
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."