Bringing Health Care to Rural Kentucky
June 18, 2012 | Story
RWJF Investigator and journalist Michael Millenson's landmark book on quality, and his subsequent crusade, helped radicalize a new generation.
Underserved Populations
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South Dakota Creates Regional Coordinated Care Networks to Improve Health Care
March 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
The South Dakota Department of Health addressed the decline in the number of its rural practice sites by creating four Regional Coordinated Care Networks to promote primary care linkages in underserved areas.
Watsonville, Calif., Proyecto HEAL Provides Health Education to Underserved Youth and Families
July 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
Salud Para la Gente conducted a project to: address overall community health status, address diseases/causes of death that had particularly high rates in the community, and provide health education.
Reach Out
January 1, 1997 | Book
In this chapter of the Anthology, Wielawski explains how the program Reach Out works, describes some of the innovations that have been implemented, and outlines the complexity of doing volunteer work in the emerging world of market-driven health care.
Reach Out Projects Extend Outreach of Medical Care to West Virginians
January 16, 2004 | Program Result Report
The West Virginia University School of Medicine at Morgantown, W.Va., and three state-sanctioned "Health Right" free clinics developed a project entitled Reach Out: Physicians' Initiative to Expand Care to Underserved West Virginians.
Transforming Health and Health Care in Vulnerable Communities
July 6, 2012 | Feature
Each year, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leaders Award honors America’s best―10 unsung heroes who have forged their own solutions to the shortcomings and challenges facing our nation’s health care system.
A Regional Health Collaborative Formed by NewYork-Presbyterian Aims to Improve the Health of a Largely Hispanic Community
October 1, 2011 | Journal Article
NewYork-Presbyterian creates a Regional Health Collaborative linking patient-centered medical homes to providers and other community-based resources.
Bodies Don't Just Tell Stories, They Tell Histories
April 15, 2011 | Journal Article
This research links historical trauma and the concept of embodiment as related to American Indian and Alaska Native populations.
Tribally-Driven HIV/AIDS Health Services Partnerships
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
HIV/AIDS prevention/treatement project described that combined medical, support and educational services for rural American Indian tribe.
Reach Out: Physicians' Initiative to Expand Care to Underserved Americans
October 15, 2009 | Program Result Report
RWJF launched Reach Out: Physicians' Initiative to Expand Care to Underserved Americans in 1992.