January 1, 2007
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Book
The most consistent priority of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has been to expand access to medical care for underserved individuals, a disproportionate number of whom live in rural areas. The Foundation has employed a number of approaches to improve health services for people living in rural areas. In this chapter, the award-winning author and frequent Anthology contributor Digby Diehl looks at a program designed to improve access to medical care for people living in some of the nation's most underserved areas?the rural South of the United States.
October 1, 2006
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Program Result Report
In 1998, Freedom from Hunger, a California-based organization that addresses issues of hunger and poor nutrition, began the replication and institutionalization of a program to train lay health advisors in several Southern states.
October 1, 2004
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Program Result Report
The Delta Health Education Partnership developed a distance-education degree program for nurse practitioner, certified nurse-midwife and physician assistant students in the federally designated Medically Underserved Area of the lower Mississippi Delta.
October 15, 2004
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Program Result Report
The Mississippi Office of Nursing Workforce, a tax-exempt charitable organization under the auspices of the state Board of Nursing, created a model that forecasts annual vacancy rates for nurses in different care settings across the state.
March 1, 1998
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Program Result Report
The southern states have the highest proportion of citizens living in areas that have a shortage of health professionals.