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.
July 1, 1999
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Program Result
Ladders in Nursing Careers (L.I.N.C.) was a career advancement and health care work force education national program.
July 1, 1999
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Program Result
From 1993 to 1997, South Carolina Hospital Research and Education Foundation, West Columbia, S.C., developed and delivered three new nursing degree programs to rural areas.
March 1, 1998
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Program Result
The southern states have the highest proportion of citizens living in areas that have a shortage of health professionals.
May 1, 1997
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Program Result
From 1992 to 1996, the Volunteers in Medicine Clinic established a model volunteer clinic on South Carolina's Hilton Head Island, providing care to medically underserved residents and low-income people employed on the island.