April 25, 2013
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Program Result Report
From 2009 to 2011, the Rural Policy Research Institute examined the impact of health reform proposals and the Affordable Care Act on rural people, places, and providers, and gave policy-makers unbiased, nonpartisan analysis.
October 1, 2004
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Program Result Report
Faculty in the Department of Nursing at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Ala., trained cosmetologists and others to deliver community-based health education and screening services.
November 26, 2012
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Program Result Report
The Health Impact Project is advancing the use of health impact assessments (HIAs), used to determine the potential health effects of a proposed policy or project. Interest in HIAs is growing at the local, state, tribal and federal levels.
May 31, 2009
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Program Result Report
Sitka is a coastal island city accessible only by boat or air. A number of the 8,800 residents of this isolated community do not have family members or close friends nearby to rely on in times of need.
July 1, 2001
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Program Result Report
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.
August 1, 1998
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Program Result Report
The Washington-based Alpha Center for Health Planning sponsored a conference to explore how major changes in the system of health care financing and delivery will affect the health care delivery system and access to health services in rural areas.
December 1, 1998
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Program Result Report
One of the most significant changes affecting health care in the United States is the increasing racial and ethnic diversity of the population.
April 17, 2007
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Program Result Report
From 2001 to 2004, staff at Sherwood Faith in Action in Sherwood, Ore., recruited, trained and deployed volunteers to provide caregiver services locally to both disabled and frail elderly people.
October 1, 2006
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Program Result Report
In 1998, Freedom from Hunger, a California-based organization that addresses issues of hunger and poor nutrition, began the replication and institutionalization of a program to train lay health advisors in several Southern states.
March 1, 2005
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Program Result Report
The Good Samaritan Health and Wellness Center provided free health care and dental services to the poor and working poor living in rural Pickens County, Ga.
