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Publicizing Health Care Services Available to Uninsured and Underserved Populations in Three Cumberland County (N.J.) Communities

November 24, 2008 | Program Result Report

Health care providers and agencies in Bridgeton, N.J., launched the Mayor's Campaign for Healthier Bridgeton, a collaborative outreach effort to publicize health care services offered to the city's uninsured and underserved populations.

Maine Seeks to Provide Rural Health Care Services Despite Rough Weather and Terrain

March 1, 2000 | Program Result Report

In 1993 and 1994, Maine developed a five-part strategy to improve the distribution of primary care providers in underserved areas.

Arkansas Addresses its Large Population Living in Medically Underserved Areas

March 1, 2000 | Program Result Report

The State of Arkansas Department of Health sought to develop the Arkansas Primary Care Access Project, in which primary care group practices would serve as "hubs" in communities with populations below 10,000.

Rural Health Care Needs Identified

September 1, 2002 | Program Result Report

In 2000, the National Rural Health Association held a conference that would develop an agenda for research on rural health policy.

Improving Health Care in Rural America

January 1, 2009 | Book

In this chapter of the Anthology, Lee Green, a freelance journalist, brings the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's disparate rural health programs together in one place, tracing the chronology beginning in the 1970s and continuing into the 2000s.

Training Generalists Physicians for Underserved Rural North Carolina

July 1, 2003 | Program Result Report

East Carolina University School of Medicine developed strategies and programs aimed at substantially increasing the output of generalists, particularly those with an interest in practicing in underserved areas.

Dennis Berens, MEd

March 1, 2002 | Story

In his role as co-publisher, Mr. Berens became more conscious than ever of the plight of America's rural communities and the need to preserve them as a precious, living resource.

WEBCAST: Project ECHO and Veterans Affairs Launch Initiative to Expand Specialty Care to Veterans

July 5, 2012 | Story

Watch live Wednesday, July 11, 2012, at 10 a.m. ET.

Project ECHO Launches National Institute to Spread Transformative Care Model; Embarks On Initiative with GE Foundation to Expand Mental Health Care Access

June 14, 2013 | News Release

Announcing the national launch of the ECHO Institute focused on spreading the ECHO model across the United States and globally.

The Midwest Immigrant Health Project

June 13, 2013 | Program Result Report

The Center for New Community conducted a grassroots effort to address health and related problems of immigrants working in meatpacking and poultry-processing plants in 12 rural communities in Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota.

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