Results List
-
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
-
Medical-legal partnerships: transforming health care
by Barry Zuckerman; Megan Sandel; Ellen Lawton; Samantha Morton Doctors, especially those who care for patients on low incomes, are frustrated that their patients’ health is adversely affected by social determinants. For those patients with an acute or chronic illness, social determinants undercut the effectiveness…
Author: The Lancet
-
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
-
Boomers may see doctor shortage; Medical students shun careers caring for older patients
by Rita Rubin Medical students are shying away from careers in general internal medicine, which could exacerbate the U.S. doctor shortage expected by the time the youngest Baby Boomers head into their senior years, researchers report today. Only 2% of 1,177 respondents to a survey…
Author: USA TODAY
-
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
-
Hartford Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies, AGS Foundation for Health in Aging Award Over $2 Million for Medical Research
Address Urgent Health Care Needs of Growing Elderly Population For Immediate Release For Further Information: Mary Anne Shannon (212) 308-1414 x301 New York, NY – The American Geriatrics Society, The John A. Hartford Foundation, The Atlantic Philanthropies, and the AGS Foundation for Health in Aging…
Author: American Geriatric Society (AGS)
-
LGBT Clients Who Reported Gross Mistreatment In Immigration Custody Remain Detained
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), an Atlantic grantee, is dedicated to ensuring human rights protections and access to justice for all immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers. This article was originally posted on NIJC’s website by Jane Zurnamer on 05 July 2011. Defending the rights…
Author: National Immigrant Justice Center
-
National Geriatric Home Health Care Quality Program Offers New Tools and Discussion Forums Through an Expanded Web Site
June 30 expansion of CHAMP Program web site includes new online community features, best practices, resources, and tools 01 Jul 2009 New York, NY (PRWEB) July 1, 2009 – To improve the quality of home care services for older persons, the Center for Home Care…
Author: Center for Home Care Policy & Research
-
Not-So Sweet Home Alabama: What Alabamians Are Saying About Their State's New Immigration Law
Kassi Cruz picks tomatoes in Steele, Alabama, on October 3, 2011. Cruz decided to pitch in to help after the majority of migrant workers left after the new Alabama immigration law took effect last week. By Center for American Progress Immigration Team Alabama has reawakened…
Author: Center for American Progress
-
UTMB to Train Cuban Scientists
GALVESTON, Texas— The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston will embark on a two-year research development program to collaborate with Cuban scientists at the Instituto Pedro Kouri in Havana to better fight infectious diseases, especially in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean regions. The…
Author: The University of Texas Medical Branch
