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June 22, 2009 | Program Result
In 2004, four community health centers began screening their patients for depression and addictions. Patients were originally referred elsewhere for treatment, but the centers later hired social workers and a psychiatrist and began mental health treatment themselves.
January 28, 2002 | Program Result
Martin House Community for Justice Foundation established a health care center in the Wilbur section of Trenton that provided an array of preventive and educational health care services for low-income individuals and families.
October 1, 2002 | Program Result
The Ounce of Prevention Fund, a public/private partnership that promotes the well-being of children in Illinois, established a maternal and child health care center at the Robert Taylor Homes, a public housing complex in Chicago.
January 1, 2007 | Program Result
Starting in 1992, the United Hospital Fund of New York created the Primary Care Development Program, which organized a consortium of NYC foundations.
April 1, 2007 | Program Result
Staff from the national program office of the program Reach Out: Physicians' Initiative to Expand Care to Underserved Americans established and operated a technical resource center.
March 24, 2010 | Program Result
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
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
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.