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Medicaid Managed Care Plan Offers Patient-Specific, Pay-for-Performance Program, Leadin... - 0 views

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    Although some program elements have been temporarily suspended for financial reasons, the initiative has improved immunization rates and diabetes care and generated a positive response from providers, without having a negative impact on health disparities.
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  • Tom Fields on 18 Jul 12
     
    The featured Innovations describe a mentor program for African-American veterans with diabetes that improved blood glucose control and an interactive education class for kidney transplant candidates that increased the percentage of African-American patients and people of lower socioeconomic status, who completed the transplant evaluation process.
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Family-Oriented Program Combines Medical Care and Behavioral Counseling, Lead... - 0 views

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    Outcomes evaluation suggests that BrennerFIT participants have reduced their body mass index and cardiovascular risk factors, while post-implementation data and surveys show a low dropout rate and high levels of patient/family satisfaction with the program.
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Community Partnership Uses Lay Health Advisers to Reduce Chronic Disease Risk Factors, ... - 0 views

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  • Tom Fields on 05 Jul 12
     
    The program, which involved two distinct project periods (1999-2000 for planning and 2000-2007 for implementation), improved health-related skills and behaviors (e.g., eating more healthfully, engaging in more physical activity), leading to anecdotal reports of better health.
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