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January 1, 2003 | Book
In this chapter, Irene Wielawski, an award-winning journalist, the evaluator of the Foundation's Reach Out program, and a frequent contributor to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology series, examines this ambitious 10-state effort.
March 1, 2000 | Program Result
The Commonwealth of Virginia created a Center for Primary Care and Rural Health in the Virginia Department of Health as a central entity to coordinate public and private recruitment and retention activities.
March 1, 2000 | Program Result
Pennsylvania's Practice Sights program goals included improving recruitment and retention efforts, encouraging greater use of mid-level providers, and establishing new practice sites in underserved areas.
March 1, 2000 | Program Result
The State of New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services enhanced its efforts to recruit and retain primary care providers in underserved areas.
March 1, 2000 | Program Result
Arizona sought to develop a community needs assessment and strategic planning process. Under the planning grant to its Department of Health Services, it launched pilot projects from 1993 to 1995 to test this approach in three communities.
March 1, 2000 | Program Result
The University of Kentucky's Center for Rural Health established an on-call community assistance program that provides direct services and local training in two dozen counties that were working on recruitment and retention issues.
March 1, 2000 | Program Result
State of Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services established a statewide alliance of public and private organizations devoted to advancing primary care initiatives.
May 17, 2007 | Program Result
Partnerships for Training developed eight regional education systems to increase the number of primary care providers in federally designated Medically Underserved Areas of the United States.
October 1, 2004 | Program Result
The Delta Health Education Partnership developed a distance-education degree program for nurse practitioner, certified nurse-midwife and physician assistant students in the federally designated Medically Underserved Area of the lower Mississippi Delta.
October 1, 2004 | Program Result
Duke University-East Carolina University Partnerships for Training developed Web-based degree programs for nurse practitioner, certified nurse-midwife and physician assistant students in federally designated Medically Underserved Areas in North Carolina.