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.
March 1, 2004
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From 1998 to 2000, the Midwest Bioethics Center (now called the Center for Practical Bioethics) developed and led Compassion Sabbath, a multi-faith initiative to help clergy and religious leaders develop tools for addressing the spiritual needs of seriously ill and dying persons in Greater Kansas City.
May 20, 2011
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Researchers at the University of Southern Maine studied the state's Pathways to Excellence system of reporting on health care quality. Practices that filed reports had higher scores on six indicators of health care quality than those that did not.
May 18, 2011
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Creating a set of measures that would make the connection between what nurses do and the quality of care patients receive and studying their implementation in hospitals.
December 4, 2009
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The Center for Health Design and the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Architecture developed an Evidence-Based Design Accreditation and Certification program, to accredit design professionals who use evidence-based design for new hospitals.
January 28, 2009
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Faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health established the Resource Center, to support the growth and development of State Pain Initiatives.
July 1, 2001
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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, 2001
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The National Conference of State Legislatures educated legislators and legislative staffs, regulators and administrators about the health benefit component of workers' compensation, a system designed to care for workers who are injured on the job.
June 1, 2000
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From 1996 to 1998, the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, Va., carried out Final Gifts, a national research study of hospice volunteerism.
August 1, 2000
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In 1997, the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation in Washington produced and disseminated a journalists' resource guide on end-of-life issues.
