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January 31, 2004 | Program Result Report
The Capital Medical Society created the Physicians' Outreach Project, a collaborative, volunteer effort to extend the services of the society's We Care Network to three adjacent rural counties: Gadsden, Jefferson and Wakulla counties.
October 1, 1997 | Program Result Report
The initiative provides care coordination of health and social services to elementary school students and their younger and unborn siblings in families with incomes under 180 percent of the poverty level who live near one of two schools.
January 25, 2012 | Program Result Report
One casualty of Hurricane Katrina was the hospital known as "Big Charity" - which had provided care to thousands of uninsured New Orleans' residents. LSU Health Care Services Division is using "evidence-based design" to plan a new top-tier hospital.
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Providing financial incentives to hospitals to improve quality is increasingly common, yet little is known about its effect on hospitals that provide care for poorer patients. In this study, researchers looked at how financial incentives affected those hospitals serving larger, poorer populations.
March 24, 2010 | Program Result Report
Shaniqua Ballard was living without much hope in a shelter for pregnant women, with little money and no health insurance, until she discovered the Developing Families Center, where she received obstetric and well-woman care, and enrolled her children in the child development program.
November 1, 2009 | Story
Frances Stout, R.N., helped build the first nursing home on the Tohono O'odham Reservation in southwestern Arizona... and then came out of retirement to run it.
October 8, 2009 | Program Result Report
Like many Latino children, Esther Lopez, D.D.S., M.P.H., served as her parents' primary translator at their many doctor visits.
February 2, 2009 | Story
Poor, rural communities often are strapped for decent health care - sometimes because of sheer bureaucracy. How can private and public funds be leveraged to support excellent care in these communities?
December 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals and New York University Downtown Hospital worked together to develop and implement the Chinese Community Partnership for Health, designed to improve the health of Asian populations in Philadelphia.
March 30, 2005 | Program Result Report
The Ingham County Health Department, working in partnership with hospitals, employers, consumers and insurers in Lansing, Mich., created an organized system of care for county residents.