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August 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
The Peter Westbrook Foundation, a non-profit organization, enhanced its program to enrich the lives of New York City's youth through the sport of fencing.
November 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
The New Jersey Collegiate Consortium for Health in Education developed a manual on safe sexual health practices for college students, covering topics such as the prevention of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.
January 1, 2008 | Toolkit
Innovators Combating Substance Abuse, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, developed a booklet for the purpose of sharing the program's successful model of addiction art exhibitions with those interested in preventing and controlling substance use disorders in their communities and their families.
January 1, 2008 | Book
The Urban Health Initiative, a major effort of the Foundation, aims to improve the health and safety of children living in five medium-size and large cities.
June 1, 2008 | Toolkit
An off-site, nurse-led heart failure clinic was created to help heart failure patients better control and self-manage their disease post-hospitalization.
June 4, 2008 | Toolkit/Video
The current race and ethnicity categories used by the Office of Management and Budget are the recommended standard, yet given the United States' increasingly diverse population, the Expecting Success program used an expanded list of categories.
June 4, 2008 | Toolkit
Hospitals that participated in Expecting Success reported monthly data on 20 cardiac care quality indicators, all analyzed by patient race, ethnicity and language.
June 4, 2008 | Toolkit
Staff combined information from three existing order sets into a single, comprehensive cardiology admission order set to reduce provider confusion and help the hospital reach regular compliance rates of 90 to 100% for evidence-based cardiac measures.
June 4, 2008 | Toolkit
Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit, Mich., developed a systemwide universal discharge instruction form, merging general discharge instructions with cardiac-specific discharge instructions for patients with acute myocardial infarction or heart failure.
July 31, 2008 | Program Result Report
Sharon Levy, MD, and colleagues at the Children's Hospital Corp. in Boston analyzed the features of home drug-testing kits for adolescents available through the Internet.