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February 10, 2009 | Program Result
InformationLinks stimulated the participation of public health agencies in emerging health information exchanges, which were developed primarily to serve the needs of providers of individual medical care services.
December 19, 2008 | Program Result
Staff at the Association of Public Health Laboratories led public health laboratory leaders in developing a strategic planning process and a strategic plan to assure competent, sustainable public health laboratory leadership.
September 1, 2006 | Program Result
A pilot project called the Small Agency Building Initiative (SABI) sought to test the ability of RWJF to improve the business capacities of 19 small, nonprofit, community-based health and social service organizations.
January 1, 2005 | Program Result
The New England Public Health and Managed Care Collaborative brought together public health departments, major managed care organizations, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Brandeis University to improve the health of New Englanders.
January 1, 2003 | Program Result
From 1993 to 2001, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, developed and implemented Community Health in Focus, a program designed to use the convening role of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to stimulate action on health care issues identified by local communities.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result
The Public Health Foundation contracted with each of the three associations that comprised the Joint Council of Governmental Public Health Agencies to examine the role of public health agencies in the face of increasing dominance by managed health care organizations.
March 1, 2001 | Program Result
The National Partnership for Social Enterprise worked with the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services to convene a group for rewriting public health practice standards for New Jersey's local health departments.
January 1, 1999 | Program Result
This 1996-1998 project compared the health agency enabling statutes from 50 states and one territory and mission statements from 42 states and one territory with the standard of practice held by professionals in the field.
January 17, 2008 | Evaluation
The evaluation assesses Lead States in Public Health Quality Improvement program in creating a peer network of innovator states to design and implement a process for systematic assessment of local public health agency capacity and performance.
May 13, 2008 | Program Result
Turning Point: Collaborating for a New Century in Public Health defined its mission as to "transform and strengthen the public health system in the United States to make the system more effective, more community-based and more collaborative."