March 19, 2012
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Center for Studying Health System Change researchers tracked changes in the nation's health care system and developed policy analyses describing how those changes affect patients, providers, and others in their communities.
May 3, 2011
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Program Result
From 2005 to 2010, the Washington-based Rebecca Project for Human Rights expanded its efforts to advocate on behalf of low-income families suffering from the impact of a parent's substance abuse.
April 18, 2011
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Program Result
Ten hospitals throughout the country joined a collaborative learning network, developed strategies to improve the quality and accessibility of their language services, and tested them using five standardized performance improvement measures.
January 26, 2010
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Program Result
From 2006 to 2009, staff members at the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, worked to raise the profile and influence of community health workers in the health care system and among policy-makers.
July 15, 2008
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Program Result
The Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence and the New York Academy of Medicine co-sponsored a day-long invitational symposium in November 2006 addressing the shortage of nurses in New York City and nationwide.
March 31, 2007
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Program Result
From December 2004 to April 2006, five diverse projects explored issues that impact training and education for frontline health care workers.
September 1, 2006
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Program Result
Rodrick Wallace, PhD, and Deborah Wallace, PhD, conducted research and published a book addressing the social, economic and political decay that underlies the rise of AIDS, tuberculosis, drug abuse and violent crime.
March 1, 2004
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Program Result
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, a national, non-profit child advocacy organization, conducted an educational campaign to increase policymakers' awareness of the value of publicly funded programs to strengthen youth and fragile families.
July 1, 2003
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Program Result
Between February 1982 and January 1986,the National Executive Service Corps, a New York City-based nonprofit organization, created the Healthcare Consulting Group as a demonstration project to train senior-level retired business executives as volunteers to serve as management consultants to health care institutions.
December 1, 1998
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Program Result
One of the most significant changes affecting health care in the United States is the increasing racial and ethnic diversity of the population.
