September 1, 1998
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Program Result
As the cost of long-term care for the disabled and the elderly continued to rise during the early 1990s, policymakers and others sought new ways to control costs while maintaining or increasing satisfaction among those served.
April 1, 2006
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Project SHARED developed a community-based project to enable chronically ill, low-income people in two inner-city neighborhoods to better manage their own health and to engage in behavior change that supported health.
June 22, 2004
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The Scripps Gerontology Center of Miami University created a new program, called CHOICES, designed to increase consumer choice and control in PASSPORT, Ohio's existing Medicaid home and community-based care waiver program for older adults.
July 1, 2010
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Staff at One Economy Corporation created and expanded Manage Your Diabetes, an interactive Web site designed to help people with low incomes and low literacy skills monitor and control their diabetes.
April 19, 2010
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The Diabetes Initiative and its individual projects have contributed to the expansion of diabetes self-management at the state level and nationwide.
November 13, 2009
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Program Result
BD was getting picked on at school because he stuttered. This sidebar tells how the Brotherhood Health Initiative helped put BD on the path toward growing social confidence and skills, which helped him make more friends both in and out of school.
November 13, 2009
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This sidebar tells how project staff helped JJ begin to take responsibility for his life, be less disruptive at school, and earn money for the things he wanted through household chores and odd jobs for neighbors.
October 29, 2009
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Program Result
Mercer Human Resource Consulting joined with a local union and a health system in Atlantic City, N.J., to pilot test a new primary care delivery model called the Ambulatory-Intensive Caring Unit.
October 1, 2009
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One Economy Corporation designed, launched and marketed a Web site, DC Healthcare for You, designed to help low-income residents navigate the Washington health care system and gain access to information on health.
March 25, 2013
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Program Result
The UCLA Family Commons is a new model of preventive mental health care that provides nonstigmatized, cost-effective education and coaching to help families with children from infancy to adolescence address common childhood issues.