Reach Out: Physicians' Initiative to Expand Care to Underserved Americans
October 15, 2009 | Program Result
RWJF launched Reach Out: Physicians' Initiative to Expand Care to Underserved Americans in 1992.
Underserved Populations
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Reach Out Projects Extend Outreach of Medical Care to West Virginians
January 16, 2004 | Program Result
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.
South Dakota Creates Regional Coordinated Care Networks to Improve Health Care
March 1, 2000 | Program Result
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.
Five Projects Collaborate to Provide Better Access to Health Care for the Underserved
September 1, 2000 | Program Result
Five RWJF-funded projects created an organizational structure to support the planning, development and implementation of collaborative approaches to improving health care access for underserved populations in Worcester County that had been underway since 1995.
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.
Ensuring Equal Access to Specialty Care
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.
Recruiting and Retaining Primary Care Physicians in Urban Underserved Communities
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Physicians cite different motivating factors as reasons why they choose–or do not choose–to work in medically underserved areas.
Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program
National Program
To provide four-year awards for postdoctoral research to physicians and dentists from historically underrepresented groups who are committed to developing careers in academic medicine and dentistry.
A Foundation's Innovative Grant Program Supports Unconventional Health-Care Solutions
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.
Project ECHO: A Model for Complex, Chronic Care in the Pacific Northwest Region of the United States
September 28, 2012 | Journal Article
This article discusses Project ECHO’s expansion in the U.S. Pacific Northwest in 2009. Weekly videoconferences focused on hepatitis C, chronic pain, integrated addictions and psychiatry, and HIV/AIDS.