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  • Salt Lake City a model for S.F. on homeless solutions

    June 28, 2014 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    San Francisco’s chronically homeless population remains staggeringly high. Salt Lake City has managed to eradicate much of their chronically homeless by geographically placing supportive housing distant from the city’s center and receiving financial assistance from the Mormon Church. The housing is attractive, modern, and offers a good ratio between counselors and homeless clients—all of which helps make the homeless want to stay off the streets.

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  • Malaria Prevention, With Both Reward and Risk

    June 25, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Mali, Bamako, Koulikoro

    After ongoing trials and successes for preventative measures toward malaria, experts have now reversed their support for them. In what remains an ongoing threat, especially to children, new interventions, like the combination of multiple malaria drugs, are being tried, tested, and showing promise.

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  • Coordinated Care for Those Nearing Life's End — But Does It Save Money?

    June 25, 2014 |

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    Response Location: United States

    A coordinated care program is helping provide in-home care to those who are considered pre-hopsice and who are combatting chronic health issues. While the program doesn't always financially help the hospitals it operates out of due to a reduction in emergency room visits, the patient is able to save almost half of what they would have spent on regular hospital visits.

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  • Low-Income Latinas Turn to Group Visits for Prenatal Care

    June 18, 2014 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Studies show group prenatal care leads to better birth outcomes when compared against standard care. Centering Pregnancy in San Francisco is a space for women with similar gestational ages to meet, learn about self-care, and have facilitated group discussions.

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  • For some, prenatal care is a community affair

    June 18, 2014 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Latin American women in San Francisco have suffered from post-partum depression, social isolation, and chronic stress at the time of their pregnancies. Run by midwives, the Centering Pregnancy program at the San Francisco General Hospital provides patient-centered care, an environment to speak in Spanish, and a nurturing community for women’s group appointments. The results boast fewer c-sections and pre-term births, and an improvement in emotional support and overall prenatal health.

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  • The Abstinence Method

    June 17, 2014 |

    Modern Farmer |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Beers

    Dutch farmers are saying no to antibiotics for livestock. The Netherlands is in the midst of a high-stakes, government-mandated experiment: Can large-scale meat production succeed without routine use of antibiotics?

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  • Abortion and Birth, Together

    June 14, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Buffalo, New York

    A Buffalo, New York clinic provides a space for both abortions and natural births. In looking at the experiences as a continuum, rather than as juxtiposing sides, the hope is to change how people think about the birth experiences.

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  • The Power to Cure, Multiplied

    June 11, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    Project ECHO - driven by a single doctor with a cause - pulled together a team of specialists to develop a model that combines technology with collaborative care and careful patient tracking to help cure for diseases spread to patients around the world through community healthcare agents, as opposed to only specialty centers. This kind of "disruptive innovation" is effectively working to demonopolize health care knowledge and access, and lends to a health system capable of meeting today’s soaring demands for care.

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  • Las Vegas tries new tactic to improve city's notorious healthcare

    June 07, 2014 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Las Vegas, Nevada

    Many people in Las Vegas lack access to quality health care centers and providers, and often end up having illnesses that go undiagnosed. Clinics try a personal approach and high-tech system to track, improve health of residents by focusing on the uninsured and the sickest.

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  • Will These Ninth Graders Make the Bronx Healthier?

    June 06, 2014 |

    WNYC |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A hospital, university, and research center partnership is trying to encourage local Bronx students to become nurses and community health care workers and stay in the area to improve the health of the community.

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