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High Turnover of Staff and Residents Challenges Health Advocacy Efforts in a Baltimore Community

September 1, 2006 | Program Result Report

Trained community health advocates conducted outreach efforts with residents of Sandtown-Winchester, a 72-block low-income neighborhood of Baltimore, to help them gain access to health insurance and needed services.

Griffin P. Rodgers, MD, FACP

January 31, 2006 | Story

Griffin Rodgers is nationally and internationally recognized for his contributions to the development of effective therapy for sickle cell anemia and other genetic diseases of hemoglobin.

Kevin B. Johnson, MD

November 6, 2006 | Story

When pediatrician Kevin Johnson, M.D., talks to a young patient, there is no chart in his hands. There is a desktop workstation in front of him and the child.

Developing Insights into Disparities

November 1, 2007 | Story

Race and ethnicity affects how patients and their physicians interact and can impact health outcomes.

Southern States Could Benefit from Using More Nurse Practitioners, Certified Nurse-Midwives and Physician Assistants

March 1, 1998 | Program Result Report

The southern states have the highest proportion of citizens living in areas that have a shortage of health professionals.

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