April 18, 2011
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Program Result
In 2004, the Brookline Community Mental Health Center and Brookline High School established the Brookline Resilient Youth Team. It provides counseling and academic help to high school students who are re-entering school after a personal emergency.
April 18, 2011
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Program Result
The overarching objective of the Dartmouth Atlas is to report local and regional variation in the performance of U.S. health care to policymakers and health systems and to provide interpretation of unwarranted variation that can guide policy.
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.
April 15, 2011
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Program Result
From 2007 to 2010, the Rapid Evaluation and Action for Community Health in New Orleans, Louisiana (REACH NOLA) tackled the city's mental health crisis through its Health and Resilience Project.
April 6, 2011
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Program Result
As the project manager at the University of Michigan said: "We could just grab the phone when patients came in who spoke languages for which we don't have an interpreter."
February 25, 2011
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Program Result
Urgent Matters was a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that aimed to relieve emergency department overcrowding, improve patient care and increase patient satisfaction.
February 19, 2011
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Program Result
McLeod Regional Medical Center of Florence, S.C., worked to speed up heart attack treatment, to reduce the time lapse from when the victim enters the emergency room to when the blocked artery is opened.
January 27, 2011
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Program Result
Prescription for Health tested the use of tools and evidence-based models in primary care to counsel patients to change four leading behaviors associated with premature death: smoking, risky drinking, unhealthy diet, and physical inactivity.
January 27, 2011
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Program Result
The Injury Free Coalition for Kids, a national network of local physician-led, hospital-based programs in Level I pediatric trauma centers, conducts interventions to prevent childhood injuries through education and environmental change.
January 26, 2011
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Program Result
The purpose - and impact - of the playground projects went beyond just providing safe places for children to play, according to Injury Free staff members.
