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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.

Fresh Ideas: Improving the Health of Immigrant and Refugee Communities

June 27, 2011 | 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.

Speaking Together: National Language Services Network

April 18, 2011 | Program Result Report

Ten hospitals throughout the country joined a collaborative learning network, developed strategies to improve the quality and accessibility of their language services, and tested them using five standardized performance improvement measures.

Improving Heart Care through Better Data and Communications

March 24, 2010 | Story

A multidisciplinary team redesigned Montefiore Medical Center's patient registration system to collect data on race, ethnicity and preferred language, and developed a procedure to provide faster treatment for heart attack patients.

Raising the Flag for Community Health Workers

January 26, 2010 | Program Result Report

From 2006 to 2009, staff members at the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, worked to raise the profile and influence of community health workers in the health care system and among policy-makers.

Public Health Law Research Program Brief Descriptions of Grants

December 6, 2009 | Story

Grantee project summaries.

A Partnership of Two NYC Hospitals Trained Providers to Offer End-of-Life Care for Minority Populations in Harlem

October 17, 2008 | Program Result Report

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and North General Hospital trained physicians to provide culturally sensitive palliative and hospice care to underserved, minority populations and to provide such care to residents of Harlem and other communities.

Program to Address Sociocultural Barriers to Health Care in Hispanic Communities

July 1, 1999 | Program Result Report

The program developed and implemented community-based interventions that would address sociocultural barriers to health care for Hispanic Americans.

Proyecto HEAL Project Helps Colorado Agency Reach Latino Families With Health Information

July 1, 1999 | Program Result Report

The Latin American Research and Service Agency, located in Denver, implemented community-based interventions to address sociocultural barriers to health care for Hispanic Americans.

El Paso's Hispanic Health Needs Assessed in First Phase of National Program to Reduce Sociocultural Barriers to Care

July 1, 1999 | Program Result Report

Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe participated in the Hispanic Health Needs Assessment during the first year of the program.

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