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Projects Descriptions and Outcomes
Long-Term
Care Insurance Partnership Expansion Project
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded CHPRE to develop and promote
to states a new long-term care insurance program.
Insure More Virginians
Virginia State Planning Grant funds allowed the Commonwealth to gather
important information about its uninsured population; solicit stakeholder
input about the feasibility of various models and their strategies for
increasing health care coverage; and make recommendations to the Governor
and the Secretary of Health and Human Resources regarding strategies
for reducing the State's uninsured population.
Division
of Nursing (HRSA) - Funding Allocation Project
Title VIII of the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) requires the Division
of Nursing to develop a funding allocation methodology for its education
and practice programs. Please visit our DON
Funding website to learn more about this project.
The Capital Area Rural Health Roundtable Forums (February 1997 - February 2002) - "Exchanging Ideas about Health in Rural America": Forums sponsored by the George Mason University Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics and supported through a federal grant from the office of Rural Health Policy, HRSA.
Strengthening
the Nursing Workforce: A Showcase of Strategies
(March 26, 2001)
A forum showcasing innovative strategies employed by federal programs to
grow and diversify the nursing workforce.
Hard
Choices, Hard Numbers: A Report on the Nation's Nursing Workforce
(February 14, 2001)
This forum featured preliminary findings from the National Sample Survey
of Registered Nurses 2000, just released by the Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA) whose Bureau of Health Professions conducts the sample
survey every four years.
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Presentations
- Overview of Federal Programs Supporting Nursing Education, Carol Anderson (3/26/2001, DC)
- Enhancing Diversity, Sara Young (3/26/2001, DC)
- Testimony (Jul 11, 2001) by Dr. Mary Wakefield before subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Appropriations (pdf) Medicare Tables (pdf)
Health Policy Papers
- Insure More Virginians Final Report to Governor
- Patient Safety and the Need for Professional and Educational Change (pdf) (Aug 2000) , Mary Wakefield, Ph.D., PJ Maddox, Ph.D., Jan Bull, MA
- Linking Rural Health Services Research with Health Policy (pdf) (Nov 2000)
- Collaborative Education to Improve Public Safety on September 13, 2000 (pdf)
Project Sponsors/Affiliates
The Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics (CHPRE) partners with many organizations in advancing the Center's goals to 1) educate the public on health care policy, 2) improve the transfer of research knowledge to the policy arena, and 3) engage a variety of experts and stakeholders to propose policy solutions to health care problems. Many affiliates and sponsors have or continue to help contribute to these goals.
Follow the links below for descriptions of the activities performed with that affiliate or sponsor.
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI)
- American Nurses Association (ANA)
- American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE)
- The Bureau of Health Professions (BHPr)
- Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME)
- Division of Nursing (HRSA) - The Funding Allocation Project
- George Mason University, Law and Psychiatry Center
- Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
- Helene Fuld Foundation (1998-2002)
- National Rural Health Association (NRHA)
- The Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP)
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJ)
- Sharp and Associates
- University of Illinois at Chicago, Nursing Institute
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation