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April 1, 2008 | Program Result
The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center examined the effects of five HMO case management programs on patients' compliance with discharge services and use of acute care services.
April 1, 2000 | Program Result
A project team at Children's Hospital Corporation in Boston determined how to organize, deliver, and finance services for technology-dependent children who have made the transition from hospital to the public schools. These are children who are on long-term oxygen therapy, ventilatory assistance, intravenous feedings, and other types of highly technical care. Then they replicated the project.
April 18, 2011 | Program Result
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
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."
July 1, 2010 | Program Result
RWJF launched Wisdom at Work: Retaining Experienced Nurses in 2006 to build an evidence base for what works to retain experienced nurses in hospital settings and to develop a better understanding of the impact of existing interventions on the work environment for older nurses.
June 28, 2010 | Program Result
Greater Trenton Behavioral HealthCare and its partners provided re-entry assistance to 176 incarcerated individuals diagnosed with mental illness through discharge planning, case management and needed follow-up services for 12 months or more.
May 11, 2009 | Program Result
From 1994 to 2007, staff at Friends' Health Connection (originally called Long Distance Love), New Brunswick, N.J., created and ran a program that enables hospitalized patients to communicate one-on-one with another patient who has the same illness.
December 1, 2005 | Program Result
Two competing hospital organizations - Memorial Health University Medical Center and St. Joseph's/Candler Hospital System - helped develop and support a health center and related shelter clinics.
March 1, 2004 | Program Result
The Iowa Hospital Education and Research Foundation produced and evaluated a screening instrument to identify the care-giving capacities and needs for parenting support services among new mothers in Iowa.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result
From 1991 to 1996, investigators at Harvard Medical School examined the effects of Medicaid eligibility expansions on a range of maternal and neonatal outcomes in California and South Carolina.