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Connecting Hospitalized Patients One-on-One with Other Patients Who Have the Same Illness

May 11, 2009 | Program Result Report

From 1994 to 2007, staff at Friends' Health Connection (originally called Long Distance Love), New Brunswick, N.J., created and ran a program that enables hospitalized patients to communicate one-on-one with another patient who has the same illness.

Dallas Children Learn About Preventable Injuries

June 1, 1999 | Program Result Report

The Children's Medical Center of Dallas established an Injury Free Coalition for Kids project using its own funds and additional funding.

Finding Better Ways to Treat Alcohol Abuse Among Seniors

May 1, 1997 | Program Result Report

The New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority created the Resident Education and Assistance Program to address problems of undiagnosed substance abuse among elderly residents living in subsidized public and private housing.

Temple University Health System in Philadelphia Improves Language Services for Spanish-Speaking Patients Through RWJF's Hablamos Juntos Program

October 16, 2007 | Program Result Report

Temple University Health System in Philadelphia developed and promoted language services for Spanish-speaking patients in all of the system's hospitals and recruited, trained and credentialed six health care interpreters.

Universal Symbols in Health Care

January 1, 2006 | Toolkit

Symbols help patients with limited English find their way.

Heart Failure Education Reduces Readmissions

February 26, 2013

Oregon Health and Science University cut readmissions for heart failure patients by 11 percent over an 18-month period through improved patient education.

Interpreters to Ensure Patients Receive Instructions in Their Native Language

February 26, 2013

Oregon Health and Science University saw a 65 percent improvement in ensuring patients with limited English proficiency have an interpreter during admission and discharge.

Improving Patient Decision-Making: New England Region

December 13, 2012 | Report

In this Dartmouth Atlas report, the last in a series of nine U.S. regional reports, we show wide variations in the rates of elective procedures in the New England region.

Improving Patient Decision-Making: Middle Atlantic Region

December 13, 2012 | Report

In this Dartmouth Atlas report, the last in a series of nine U.S. regional reports, we show wide variations in the rates of elective procedures in the Middle Atlantic region.

Improving Patient Decision-Making: South Atlantic Region

December 13, 2012 | Report

In this Dartmouth Atlas report, the last in a series of nine U.S. regional reports, we show wide variations in the rates of elective procedures in the South Atlantic region.

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