April 1, 2008
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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
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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.
December 7, 2011
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Story
Mark LeMaire led a community partnership in Jacksonville, Fla., that placed elder care advocates in area hospitals to help discharged patients transition back to the community. The hospitals have since incorporated the program into their operations.
January 1, 2011
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Journal Article
Compared with traditional skilled nursing homes, the Green House model allows for more time to be spent caring for and engaging residents.
June 28, 2010
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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.
January 1, 2009
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Journal Article
This article explores the issue of aging and longevity, and describes one region's response to the growing population of seniors.
December 1, 2005
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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
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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
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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.
July 1, 2001
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Program Result
The United Hospital Fund of New York worked to develop, validate and implement a research technique called small-area analysis, used to identify communities with high rates of unnecessary hospitalization and limited access to primary care.