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New Center Aids States in Developing Participant-Directed LTC Programs
Center supports programs that give participants choice and control over their home and community-based services and supports BOSTON—The Boston College Graduate School of Social Work launched a new technical assistance center that offers states the tools they need to implement a wide variety of participant-directed long-term care…
Author: Long-Term Living
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Time period for immigrants to find work extended
Original Source by STEVEN CARROLL THE PERIOD of time allowed to migrant workers to find new employment after they have been made redundant has been extended by Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern. Certain migrant workers who have lived in the State for under five years…
Author: Irish Times
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In Act 2 of Life, Doing Work That Matters
Original Source By Jane E. Brody Dr. Peter I. Pressman decided to retire in 2003 after 40 years as a New York breast cancer surgeon much admired by his patients for the time and skill he devoted to them and their families. He was 68,…
Author: The New York Times
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Nidus Center chief leaving to form venture capital fund
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 14 Feb 2008 By Rachel Melcer Bob Calcaterra proudly presided over the Tuesday night graduation of three companies from the Nidus Center for Scientific Enterprise, a biotech business incubator he has run since its inception. It wasn’t the first such ceremony in…
Author: ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
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UCSF Medical Center Set to Break Ground at Mission Bay This Year
By Kristen Bole. The new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay project is proceeding on time, significantly under budget and is on track to break ground this fall, pending funding approval by the UC Regents. UCSF expects that construction of the new 289-bed children’s, women’s…
Author: UCSF Today
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Grant to help center expand program to the national level
Original Source By: Ashley Schneider The Atlantic Philanthropies awarded a $3.5 million grant to Kevin Mahoney, a professor in the graduate school of social work and director of the Center for the Study of Home and Community Life (CSHCL), to help the center’s Cash & Counseling Program…
Author: Boston College Heights
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Organizations Provide $8.7 Million to Launch a National Center to Improve Care for Complex Patients
CAMDEN, N.J.—The Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers announced plans to establish a national center to improve care for high-need patients who experience poor outcomes despite extreme patterns of hospitalizations or emergency care. Inefficient and ineffective care of these patients has been identified as a driver…
Author: Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers
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UCSF Receives $125 Million for New Medical Center at Mission Bay
By Robin Hindery UCSF has received one of the largest gifts in its 145-year history $125 million as the lead funding for a state-of-the-art medical center at the Mission Bay campus. The transformative donation injects a shot of adrenaline into an ambitious project that will…
Author: The University of California, San Francisco
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Major Grant Expands Center for the Study of Inequality
By Linda B. Glaser A recent, $10 million grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies to Cornell’s Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI) will support new research and educational opportunities focused on the causes and consequences of inequality. Center for the Study of Inequality at Cornell…
Author: Cornell Chronicle
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Taking It to the Streets: New Ways to Get Uninsured Kids Enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP
By Sheila Hoag, Senior Researcher, and Debra Lipson, Senior Fellow, Mathematica Policy Research Traditionally, state and local Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) staff have conducted outreach to uninsured children eligible to help enroll them into these public coverage options. Advocates have also organized public education…
Author: Georgetown Center for Children and Families