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September 12, 2011 | Program Result
In North San Diego County, the Indian Health Council is using the Chronic Care Model to engage patients in their own care.
July 20, 2011 | Story
Following her own struggle to access care in an underserved area, Sara O'Donnell helped design a program that's becoming a model for enhancing rural health care.
August 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Although geographic access to emergency departments has deteriorated in only a small number of communities, these communities tended to be poor, unemployed or Hispanic, suggesting an increasing disparity in access to emergency care.
July 1, 2000 | Program Result
Bay Area Health Ministries completed a video on the parish nurse and health ministry concepts - i.e., the addition of nurses to a traditional ministry staff in order to provide community nursing services to congregations and other clients.
August 22, 2008 | Program Result
Coro Southern California evaluated its first Health Leadership Program, which trained 24 midcareer health professionals between June and November 2005 to work in medically underserved communities.
October 17, 2012 | News Release
RWJF honors Kathi Toepel with a 2012 Community Health Leaders Award.
April 2, 2012 | Journal Article
As several studies have shown, an association between periodontal disease and chronic kidney disease (CKD), regular dental care may be an important strategy for reducing the burden of CKD.
July 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Patients, providers and the health care system all are contributing factors in higher cancer mortality among minorities.
September 30, 2008 | Story
To support his dream of a career in both clinical medicine and academic research, Araujo then turned to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program, which accepted him as a 2004–2008 scholar.
September 30, 2008 | Story
Brown's interest in diabetes was more than professional. Both of her parents were diagnosed with the disease, and it changed their lives. Overnight, they became patients who needed to take medication, monitor what they ate and change their lifestyle.