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Colorado HMO Launches Time Bank to Provide Health-Related Volunteer Services

September 1, 2000 | Program Result

The Rocky Mountain Health Maintenance Organization developed and implemented a pilot service-credit-banking program in Mesa County, Colo., called the Time Bank.

Service Banking Credit Program in Seattle Attracts Too Few Volunteers

September 1, 2000 | Program Result

Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound created SerVE, a service credit banking program aimed at attracting individuals who might not typically volunteer but who saw a tangible benefit in the opportunity to build credits.

Ohio Volunteers Provide Health Care for Low-Income Patients

January 16, 2004 | Program Result

Reach Out of Montgomery Country, a non-profit corporation in Dayton, Ohio, provided free care for medically underserved low-income individuals, after hours, at two existing community health centers in Dayton.

A Network of Medical Volunteers Expands in South Carolina

January 16, 2004 | Program Result

Starting in August 1994, a managed network of volunteer medical providers called Commun-I-Care continued ongoing efforts to provide non-emergency health care to the uninsured poor in South Carolina.

Volunteer Physicians Linked to Needy Patients in Asheville, N.C.

July 11, 2008 | Program Result

Project Access, which provides access to specialty and chronic health care for low-income uninsured people of Buncombe County, N.C., expanded its services from August 1994 through July 1998.

Service Credit Banking

January 1, 2002 | Book

Susan Dentzer explores whether service credit banking--as demonstrated in the projects funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation--was a good idea that was badly timed or implemented, or whether it was simply a flawed idea.

Helping the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Extend a Helping Hand in the U.S.

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.

Hospice Volunteer Survey Could Lead to Cuts in Programs

June 1, 2000 | Program Result

From 1996 to 1998, the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, Va., carried out Final Gifts, a national research study of hospice volunteerism.

New York HMO Recruits 445 Volunteers for Service Credit Banking Program

September 1, 2000 | Program Result

Oxford Health Plans, Inc., created its service credit banking program, called Partners In Caring, to assist Medicare members with nonmedical needs by recruiting and training community volunteers.

California HMO Logs 9,000 Volunteer Hours in Service Credit Banking Project

September 1, 2000 | Program Result

CareAmerica Health Plans, a for-profit health insurer in Southern California, launched its CareXchange SCB (Service Credit Banking) program in Glendale, Calif.

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