Bringing Health Care to Rural Kentucky
June 18, 2012 | Story
RWJF Investigator and journalist Michael Millenson's landmark book on quality, and his subsequent crusade, helped radicalize a new generation.
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South Dakota Creates Regional Coordinated Care Networks to Improve Health Care
March 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
The South Dakota Department of Health addressed the decline in the number of its rural practice sites by creating four Regional Coordinated Care Networks to promote primary care linkages in underserved areas.
Five Projects Collaborate to Provide Better Access to Health Care for the Underserved
September 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
Five RWJF-funded projects created an organizational structure to support the planning, development and implementation of collaborative approaches to improving health care access for underserved populations in Worcester County that had been underway since 1995.
Watsonville, Calif., Proyecto HEAL Provides Health Education to Underserved Youth and Families
July 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
Salud Para la Gente conducted a project to: address overall community health status, address diseases/causes of death that had particularly high rates in the community, and provide health education.
Reach Out
January 1, 1997 | Book
In this chapter of the Anthology, Wielawski explains how the program Reach Out works, describes some of the innovations that have been implemented, and outlines the complexity of doing volunteer work in the emerging world of market-driven health care.
Expanding 2006 Binational Health Week
August 28, 2008 | Program Result Report
The University of California, Berkeley, worked to expand the 2006 Binational Health Week, chiefly by helping local volunteer groups to provide more health screenings for underserved populations and by convening key officials on health issues.
Reach Out Projects Extend Outreach of Medical Care to West Virginians
January 16, 2004 | Program Result Report
The West Virginia University School of Medicine at Morgantown, W.Va., and three state-sanctioned "Health Right" free clinics developed a project entitled Reach Out: Physicians' Initiative to Expand Care to Underserved West Virginians.
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships
December 20, 2012 | Program Result Report
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships is a 25-year-old national program providing matching grants for innovative community-based projects aimed at improving the health and health care of underserved and vulnerable populations.
Transforming Health and Health Care in Vulnerable Communities
July 6, 2012 | Feature
Each year, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leaders Award honors America’s best―10 unsung heroes who have forged their own solutions to the shortcomings and challenges facing our nation’s health care system.