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Lots of Jobs and Lots of Eager Workers: What Went Wrong?

February 1, 1998 | Program Result Report

Health Careers Center, an affiliate of the Greater New York Hospital Association, developed a program to offset an anticipated shortage of health care workers in New York City in the early 1990s.

No More Columbines

March 1, 2003 | Program Result Report

School shootings resulted in the deaths of 26 students and three teachers and many more were wounded. The Commission for the Prevention of Youth Violence conducted research and dissemination activities during 2000 and 2001.

Fresh Ideas: Improving the Health of Immigrant and Refugee Communities

June 13, 2013 | Program Result Report

Fresh Ideas was a targeted solicitation for proposals that aimed to give immigrants and refugees the tools and support they need to improve and maintain their own health.

Evaluation Identifies Promising Practices and Lessons Learned from a Collaborative in Health Care Workforce Development

January 31, 2011 | Program Result Report

Bay Area Workforce Funding Collaborative invested $3.4 million in a first round of grants for workforce programs that were expected to train and advance nearly 700 low-income and low-wage, entry-level and incumbent workers.

Do Information Systems Affect Adverse Events in Hospitals - and the Workload of Nurses?

October 18, 2010 | Program Result Report

Researchers with the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco, measured the effect of two information systems at the Veterans Administration (VA) on the number of adverse events experienced by patients and the hours worked by nurses.

New Website Profiles 24 Innovative Nursing-Driven Models of Health Care Delivery

March 21, 2009 | Program Result Report

In 2007–2008, a team at Health Workforce Solutions LLC, a consulting firm in San Francisco, investigated innovative, nursing-driven models of health care delivery, identified 24 models for in-depth study and disseminated detailed information.

Labor-Management Relations Affect Hospital Competitiveness, Financial Performance and Quality of Care

May 1, 1999 | Program Result Report

From 1995 to 1998, researchers from the Economic Policy Institute assessed the impact of labor-management cooperation and new employment and human resource practices on hospital performance, processes and outcomes.

The Immigrants and Refugees New Arrivals Advocacy Project

September 9, 2011 | Program Result Report

The Center for Children's Advocacy in Hartford, Conn., operated a medical-legal advocacy project to improve the health of new immigrant and refugee children.

Do Facebook and Other Social Networks Influence Health and Behavior?

August 9, 2011 | Program Result Report

A team at Harvard led by Nicholas Christakis, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H, built several health-related social network data sets and used them to analyze the role social networks play in health and health care. Some findings achieved national media coverage.

Pilot Test of the Latino Health Connector in Columbus, Ohio, Shows Positive Results

June 27, 2011 | Program Result Report

Access HealthColumbus ran a pilot test of the Latino Health Connector, which provides health screening, navigation and educational services to Latino workers and their families in Columbus, Ohio.

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