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Strength in Numbers: King County Service Organizations Pool Their Money and Resources

June 1, 2000 | Program Result

Starting in May 1996, the King County Blended Funding Project was a cooperative effort to create a system of care to meet the needs of the most difficult-to-serve and high-cost children, youth, and their families in King County.

Highest-Value Preventive Services Save Billions if Applied to 90 Percent of U.S. Population

June 12, 2012 | Program Result

Researchers at the Partnership for Prevention conducted research to identify high-value evidence-based clinical and community preventive services.

Philadelphia Study: Language, Transportation Difficulties Get in Way of Health Care for Chinese and Vietnamese Immigrant Children and Families

December 1, 2006 | Program Result

From January to December 2004, Philadelphia Citizens for Children and Youth explored the barriers that Vietnamese and Chinese immigrant children face in obtaining health care.

Talking About Quality Part 3: How We Get There-Aligning Forces for Quality

June 30, 2009 | Presentation Material

This slideshow describes Aligning Forces for Quality, a local and national approach that brings together those who get care, give care and pay for care to improve health care quality.

Improving Quality: How a Hospital Reduced Medication Errors

September 24, 2008 | Story

Leadership of the nonprofit hospital and its parent corporation, McLeod Health, embraced a plan to automate the medication delivery process, adding safeguards against both prescribing and delivery mistakes.

Continuing Care Networks Succeed with Multidiscipline Team Approach

June 8, 2006 | Program Result

The Community Coalition for Long Term Care - a coalition of Monroe (N.Y.) county agencies, BlueCross/BlueShield, local health care providers and advocacy organizations - conducted a demonstration project to develop and implement Continuing Care Networks.

Physicians' Outreach Project Expands Access to Specialty Care for Low-Income Patients in Tallahassee

January 31, 2004 | Program Result

The Capital Medical Society created the Physicians' Outreach Project, a collaborative, volunteer effort to extend the services of the society's We Care Network to three adjacent rural counties: Gadsden, Jefferson and Wakulla counties.

Blueprint of Recommendations for Making Communities "Asthma Friendly" for Children

June 1, 2003 | Program Result

RAND Health worked with a panel of health experts to develop a set of policy recommendations, with implementation and funding options for each, for improving childhood asthma outcomes nationwide.

Three-State Study Reveals Unexpected Barriers to Work for the Disabled

August 1, 2003 | Program Result

The Oregon Health Policy Institute conducted an evaluation of five demonstration projects designed to implement and evaluate state efforts to remove barriers to employment for disabled people by increasing access to health care.

Uninsured in D.C. Better Off with Private, Not Public Insurance, Study Says

December 1, 2003 | Program Result

Georgetown University completed a study in early 2000 that suggested that the District of Columbia would be better served if health care for its uninsured and indigent populations were purchased through the private rather than the public sector.

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