January 1, 2007
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Book
The most consistent priority of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has been to expand access to medical care for underserved individuals, a disproportionate number of whom live in rural areas. The Foundation has employed a number of approaches to improve health services for people living in rural areas. In this chapter, the award-winning author and frequent Anthology contributor Digby Diehl looks at a program designed to improve access to medical care for people living in some of the nation's most underserved areas?the rural South of the United States.
July 1, 1999
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Program Result Report
Ladders in Nursing Careers (L.I.N.C.) was a career advancement and health care work force education national program.
July 1, 1999
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Program Result Report
From 1993 to 1997, South Carolina Hospital Research and Education Foundation, West Columbia, S.C., developed and delivered three new nursing degree programs to rural areas.
March 1, 1998
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Program Result Report
The southern states have the highest proportion of citizens living in areas that have a shortage of health professionals.
May 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
From 1992 to 1996, the Volunteers in Medicine Clinic established a model volunteer clinic on South Carolina's Hilton Head Island, providing care to medically underserved residents and low-income people employed on the island.