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A Business Plan for Expanding an Online Health Center

June 27, 2011 | Program Result

Planned Parenthood of Columbia/Willamette developed a business plan for expanding its Online Health Center to other states. It allows women in Oregon and Washington to access contraceptive services via the Internet.

A Case for Regulation: Less Access to Alcohol, Fewer Traffic Deaths

December 1, 2003 | Program Result

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center examined the relationship between regulatory practices of alcohol-control agencies and alcohol-related traffic deaths in 107 cities that participate in the NHTSA's Fatality Analysis Reporting System.

Accountable Care Organizations and Antitrust

April 11, 2012 | Journal Article

A new initiative of the Affordable Care Act known as accountable care organizations, received final rules from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Advance Directive Language and Laws May Interfere With Patient Wishes

January 25, 2011 | Story

The guidelines created to protect patients making end-of-life decisions may have the opposite effect. A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Physician Faculty Scholar identifies problems and offers solutions.

Advancing Public Health Practice and Policy Solutions

January 10, 2010 | Issue Brief

Under its Advancing Public Health Policy and Practice solicitation, RWJF funded 16 projects and the Center for Creative Leadership produced Knowledge Assets that synthesize the work and learnings from these projects.

A National Center Supports Growing Number of Medical-Legal Partnerships to Advocate for the Health of Children

March 21, 2009 | Program Result

Since 1993, the Medical-Legal Partnership for Children at Boston Medical Center has provided pediatric patients and their families with legal assistance on matters that can affect a child's health.

A New Model of Health Care for Juvenile Offenders

December 1, 2011 | Program Result

Community Oriented Correctional Health Services expanded its juvenile offender program to an additional site and negotiated for a third. The program connects juvenile offenders with health services during and after detention.

A Plan of Voluntary Mediation as Alternative for Malpractice Claims Doesn't Make it to the Demonstration Phase

September 1, 2002 | Program Result

From 1997 to 1998, staff at the Harvard School of Public Health developed the design of a voluntary mediation demonstration program for resolving medical malpractice disputes.

A Quiet Revolution

March 1, 2004 | Journal Article

This paper considers law's impact on health system change. Federal courts and state regulators have remade the rules of the medical marketplace, restricting the methods available to managed care organizations to control costs. Legal conflict, howeve ...

At "Joe's Place," Camden County Teens Receive Day-Treatment Services

April 1, 2007 | Program Result

The Comprehensive Adjustment Program for Youth takes Camden County adolescents serving time for drug-related offenses and provides them with structured and comprehensive day-treatment services.

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