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June 1, 2011 | Commentary
Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes), a disruptive model of health education and delivery, makes the medical resources of academic medical centers available to treat and improve outcomes for rural HCV patients.
October 28, 2012 | Journal Article
The Pioneer Portfolio is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s innovation arm, committed to harnessing a pipeline of ideas to serve the social good.
November 18, 2009 | Program Result
The Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York was initially formed to help find employment for the surviving workers of Windows on the World.
June 25, 2012 | Program Result
In August 2010, the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, in Los Angeles, added a nursing school to address the needs of underserved communities. Under this project (2008–2011), the school developed programs leading to a Master of Science in Nursing degree and enrolled its first students.
June 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes), a disruptive model of health education and delivery, makes the medical resources of academic medical centers available to treat and improve outcomes for rural HCV patients.
May 19, 2011 | Journal Article
Project ECHO enables specialists to partner with primary care clinicians in underserved areas to deliver complex specialty care to patients.
January 1, 2003 | Program Result
From late 1997 to the end of 2000, the Esperanza Community Housing Corporation provided internships for bilingual residents of a low-income neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles who had been trained as professional community health promoters. Esperanza developed the health-promoter training program to increase access to health and health care information, and...
July 1, 2001 | Program Result
The US Schweitzer Fellows Programs, which enable medical, nursing, public health and social work students to volunteer their services in impoverished communities, increased the number of student participants and added three volunteer sites.
June 14, 2011 | Story
This disruptive model of health care education and delivery enables primary care doctors in underserved areas to provide top-quality care for complex conditions locally.
June 11, 2010 | Journal Article
Specialized treatment for chronic conditions is often available only at large academic medical centers. Project ECHO is training primary care physicians in rural areas of New Mexico to deliver best practice care for many diseases.