The CREATION Health Center for Chronic Disease at Bolingbrook Hospital in Illinois takes a team approach to chronic disease management. With...

The Integrated School-Based Mental Health Program brings mental health services to a convenient, accessible and familiar place while maintai...

Bon Secours Richmond Hope Therapy Center provides both traditional and innovative physical therapies, all tailored to Cerebral Palsy patient...

Palmetto Health Dental Health Initiative was created when the hospital system partnered with South Carolina's first free dental clinic for u...

Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast teamed up with the Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation to hire a dedicated Pediatric Navigator...

Baptist Health Follow-Up Care provides a temporary medical home for patients until permanent medical homes can be found. The clinic is run ...

The Mountain View RotaCare Free Clinic was established for those who truly have nowhere else to turn. The RotaCare mission underscores one o...

McLeod Breast Health Center in Florence, S.C., provides a full range of services, from community awareness and early prevention to diagnosis...

Partnership for the Health & Safety of All Students was formed after the death of a Fort Madison, Iowa, student athlete. The Partnership he...

Latina Community Health Services was created to meet the growing population of Hispanic women immigrants in Philadelphia. The LCHS program ...

The PinnacleHealth Children’s Resource Center provides medical evaluations, counseling, forensic interviews and treatments in one central l...

The Healthy Communities Collaborative (HCC) was established as an outreach program of St. Gabriel’s Hospital in Little Falls, Minnesota. It...

The goal of St. Jude’s Sickle Cell Center is to improve comprehensive care for people with sickle cell disease by focusing on four areas: in...

St. Mary Community Health Ministries in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, provides free screenings, educational seminars and inclusive programs for p...

The St. Vincent Healthcare Foundation created a grants-writing position to work with mission-related non-profits and to seek external suppor...

The Cultural Health Initiatives, a program to increase access to healthcare services, was formed in 2011 to deliver more culturally sensitiv...

The Community Meals Program was developed in January 2012, when the Akron General Lodi Community Hospital staff saw a need to help the hungr...

The Lasting Hope Recovery Center (LHRC) in Omaha, Nebraska, is a unique public-private partnership dedicated to improving community access t...

Hughes Spalding Hospital served patients who experience many barriers to quality healthcare because of socio-economic factors. As a result,...

Kerry’s Kids is a mobile clinic that treats children of Novato, California, who are homeless or living in poverty.

The Greater New Orleans Immunization Network (GNOIN) provides free immunizations through a mobile clinic that visits various neighborhoods i...

After budget cuts closed the only mental health clinic within 30 miles of Colquitt County, Georgia, the community banded together to reopen ...

The “Save a Life” Pink Ribbon of Hope Project provides screening mammograms, diagnostic breast services and education on breast cancer for u...

The Dominican Pediatric Clinic provides medical, dental, psychological, preventive and special needs services for infants and young children...

The Hope Clinic & Pharmacy serves low-income, uninsured, chronically ill patient/clients who live in six south-central Kentucky counties.

The Creating Positive Relationships (C.P.R.) program at FSAH was originally developed in response to increasing numbers of teen pregnancies,...

Good Shepherd’s Concussion Management Program was developed to protect the health and wellness of young athletes in the East Texas area.

The Sports Medicine Program (SMP) provides students in athletic programs across Gwinnett County, Georgia, a range of healthcare services the...

The goal of the annual Prostate Health Event is to increase awareness throughout the Hackensack, New Jersey community about prostate cancer ...

The Stroke Program was developed in 2011 as a result of the extraordinary number of stroke victims arriving in the Emergency Department of C...

PACT, a Kennedy Krieger Institute affiliate, has been providing specialized child care programs and support services for families in the Bal...

Miles of Smiles Mobile Dental Clinic consists of a 40-foot van with two fully-equipped dental treatment rooms, a central sterilization area,...

The Healthy Start Obstetrics (HSO) program provides top-notch prenatal care, delivery and postpartum care to an underserved vulnerable popul...

Longmont Surgical Mission provides free outpatient surgical services to the neediest patients in the Longmont United Hospital’s area.

A group of quilters in Arab, Alabama, raffled a handcrafted quilt to raise money to start the Mammography Assistance Program to provide mamm...

Mercy Clinic’s initial goal was to provide primary care for indigent patients as an alternative to patients visiting the ER. Now it provide...

The goal of the Diabetes Self-Management Education Program is to promote understanding and self-management of the disease for residents of t...

The Life Shines Bright Pregnancy Program (LSB) was created to target extremely high prematurity rates in the Dallas, Texas area.

The Congregational Health Network or CHN is designed to improve access to healthcare and health status for all in the Memphis, Tennessee co...

The Heart Health Challenge was created at Methodist Mansfield Medical to help school principals, administrators, teachers, students and pare...

HERO (Health Education Raises Opportunities) is a collaborative program initiated by Mount St. Mary’s Hospital and Health Center that focuse...

Appalachian Mountain Project Access (AMPA) is an independent non-profit that connects uninsured patients who have urgent medical needs to he...

Despite a significant loss of funding, the Free Clinic of Newberry in South Carolina will continue the mission of its founders: to positivel...

The Norton Healthcare Centers for Prevention and Wellness (CPW) works to promote wellness and good health through awareness, advocacy, promo...

Commit2Fit is an eight-week weight loss program in Knox County, Illinois, that uses different challenges every week, and motivational e-mai...

The goal of SC Mission Midlands is to meet immediate healthcare needs of low income uninsured people, and to link people to medical homes an...

Parkview Mobile Nurses is an on-the-go preventive healthcare team (registered nurses and health educators) that works to uncover health risk...

The Keystone Community Care Continuum (KCCC) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is a collaboration between PinnacleHealth System and five communit...

To address the issue of obesity, ProMedica funded the development of The Healthy Conversation Map® education program in partnership with a p...

Consistent Care in Olympia, Washington, is designed to guide treatment decisions for people with unresolved and complex health needs.

The Prevention Pals program was established to heighten awareness of preventable health problems, and to motivate and encourage the Mount Ve...

The over-arching goal in creating the Lunch and Learn is to bring a wealth of important and necessary information to Greater Roseland reside...

In response to the childhood obesity epidemic, Self Regional Healthcare developed Wellness Works for Kids to teach children how to live heal...

The SNGH Forensic Nurse Examiner Program (FNE ) is dedicated to serving victims of sexual assault and violence in the greater Norfolk, Virgi...

The Men’s and Women’s Health Fairs allows Sequoyah Memorial Hospital to educate Sallisaw, Oklahoma residents on health issues and resources ...

Shore Wellness Partners (SWP) is a free program using a team of nurses and a medical social worker to visit people in their homes, providing...

The Southwest General Neighborhood Care Center (SWNCC), a volunteer care center, was established to strengthen the quality of life by provid...

St. Anthony North’s Doula Program provides, without charge, certified, well-trained, bilingual women who serve to bridge the cultural divide...

St. John Providence Health System’s Access to Care programs were developed because of the increasing number of uninsured people, and the lac...

St. Mary’s and the Twilight Foundation came together to offer a helmet safety program to local schools to stimulate interest in cycling for ...

Trinity United Church of Christ, located in Akron, Ohio, teamed up with Summa Western Reserve Hospital to organize Trinity Trimmers, a progr...

Kids in Action began as a way for children with special needs to participate in structured social and physical activities in the community. ...

The Good Samaritan Free Health Center was formed to address the difficulty in getting access to healthcare for uninsured and/or undocumented...

The Chronic User System of Care (CUSOC) program was developed to identify a higher quality system of care, resulting in the ability to captu...

The Cecil Community Health Center (CCHCC) in Elkton, Maryland, was established to connect uninsured patients to needed primary care services...

Upper Allegheny Health System Dental Service provides dental health services to low-income children. Now there are seven centers in both Ne...

ProHealth Care’s Hispanic Health Resource Center (HHRC) in Waukesha, Wisconsin, was developed to address an increasing need for linguistical...

Garden Village is a nonprofit skilled nursing facility whose goal is to help elderly patients live successfully in the Yakima County, Washin...

The Preventive Food Pantry and Demonstration Kitchen in Boston, Massachusetts, distributes about 10,000 pounds of great food each week to ch...

The Pediatric Asthma Program gives patients, families, school and childcare workers, and the community basic knowledge about asthma. It als...

Marian Medical Center in Santa Barbara County, California, wanted to develop a program to help people face the challenges common in most lon...

St. John's Lutheran Hospital in Libby sponsors Paint It Pink, an annual breast cancer awareness and fund-raising campaign. The initiative e...

Paint the Town Pink is held the last Saturday in September to usher in breast cancer awareness month in October. Among the activities: a he...

Palmetto Health's Office of Community Services improves access to high-quality, comprehensive healthcare and increases the standard of progr...

St. Vincent entered into a partnership with Forest Heights. Hospital employees serve as mentors and tutors. Students send cards to hospital...

Increasing numbers of people were showing up at Rush Oak Park Hospital's diabetes center with prediabetes. So, the hospital started Project...

ProMedica Health System established the ProMedica Advocacy Fund to benefit nonprofit organizations that provide the basics - food, clothing ...

Promotores de Salud, or "Health Promoters," identify people at high risk for diabetes, then teach them about changes to their lifestyles tha...

Quit for Your Health is a tobacco cessation program offered free to people who use any kind of tobacco. Certified tobacco treatment special...

The Rector Diabetes Education and Resource Center works to increase knowledge and services for Type 1 diabetics, and prevent the spread of T...

The Respite Care Program of St. John's Hospital serves homeless people in West Los Angeles, California. Now patients can be discharged into...

WellStar Health content experts developed age-appropriate classes for elementary and middle school children, covering such topics as nutriti...

Senior Options and Solutions focuses on keeping older residents healthy and independent. The program provides assessment, education, care p...

Senior Outreach helps confront obstacles to managing chronic illness, such as social, family and spiritual isolation; financial needs for ho...

Senior Services offers a free referral network with more than 500 providers. Seniors are guided toward services to help them keep their ind...

The Shop 'til You Drop Your Blood Sugar program was created to help poor, uninsured people in Galveston, Texas, make choices that are tasty,...

SIBSPlace is a positive, therapeutic environment where siblings of very sick children are welcomed and supported. Through after-school prog...

The Southeastern Regional Medical Center Foundation often examines the needs of its community around Lumberton, North Carolina, and responds...

Spiritual Care Companions is a group of men and women of all ages and faiths committed to ministering to patients with empathy, compassion a...

The STEMI Alert Program was created to put more sophisticated EKG monitors in ambulances. In addition, a St. Rita's critical care instructo...

When statistics showed that African-American patients get inferior healthcare than white patients, Methodist North Hospital created the Stud...

The Center for Women's Heart Health was established to teach women what they can do to reduce their risk of heart attack or stroke. The p...

The Diabetes Education Department teaches the art of self-management. Bilingual Certified Diabetes Educators give information about the di...

Trinity Healthy Living coordinates efforts to improve the health of young people. The idea is to reach children and families while habits a...

The Family Resource Center educates patients and their families on medical conditions, so they may confront their illnesses with knowledge i...

FirstHealth Cares was created to help low-income, uninsured or under-insured patients get the drugs they required by handling paperwork. He...

Baptist Regional Medical Center in Corbin, Kentucky, created the FOCUS Prescription Program to help people get the medicines they need. Thi...

The Gifford Gift Certificate program rewards hospital employees' volunteer efforts and encourages the "buy local" mantra that helps business...

To cut through some of the confusion associated with health insurance forms and plans, the Health Insurance Information Service (HIIS) was c...

In rural Kentucky there are clinics in some towns, but they are little help to people who have no way to get to them. Our Lady of Bellefont...

Mercy Iowa City has opened Healthy Kids Community Care clinics in area schools. They provide free medical care to children and their younge...

Heart Safe Communities, an initiative by Buffalo Hospital, increases access to automated external defibrillators that can provide the crucia...

The Hip Hop Healthy Eating & Living in Schools program, or Hip Hop H.E.A.L.S., teaches nine- to 12-year-olds which nutrition choices are hea...

The VA Central California's Honcho Exchange Labor Program (HELP) was created to benefit the Community Food Bank, to which many poor families...

Jeremiah's Hope Academy gives low-income unemployed or underemployed people affordable training for entry-level positions at healthcare faci...

The Kern Medical Center Health Plan was started to provide low-income patients access to primary care and cut the need for sporadic acute ca...

Paying for a series of classes - and getting there - can be costly and impractical. Allina Buffalo Hospital's Let's Talk Wellness initiativ...

Buffalo Hospital hosts Mammography Parties twice a year to provide mammograms to uninsured or under-insured women. The hospital turns the f...

At the McLeod Cancer Clinic, people get outpatient treatments, medicines to ease pain, counseling, education, case-management, psychosocial ...

A trend in Advocate-Illinois Masonic Medical Center's emergency department came to light: patients were developing complications because th...

The Mercy Philadelphia Hospital Breast Health Program provides free clinical exams, mammograms, followups and referrals. Women also are educ...

Mercy's Angels volunteer time to help low-income neighbors in any way they can. They provide education about healthcare resources and give ...

Multiphasic Program provides low-cost diagnostic testing through bimonthly screening sessions. A total of 22 tests monitor the body's major...

At the Community Health Center, OB care called the New Beginnings program was added to provide low-cost prenatal care to women who otherwise...

North Coast Health Ministry offers an array of assistance: preventive care, chronic disease management, prescription assistance, specialty r...

Northeast Tennessee Dispensary of Hope supplies prescriptions to people who can't afford them. In doing so, patients' lives are enhanced an...

Teenagers who have dreams of serving others in health-related careers have a unique opportunity to see what it's like to be a nurse, Nursing...

The Rapid Fit System combines computer-aided prosthetic design with computer-aided manufacturing equipment. The result is a high-quality pr...

The Mount Carmel Health System often adjusts its community outreach services according to residents' needs. Currently, Mount Carmel offers ...

The Ozark Center operates a year-round preschool and special education center, both of which give maximum learning opportunities for childre...

A barber in Ohio called Robinson Memorial Hospital's Health Education Center to ask for help in offering free blood pressure screenings to h...

The Working Families Initiative brings together an array of instruction and assistance to help people work toward financial self-sufficiency...

Suffering a debilitating traumatic brain injury requires extensive rehabilitation. Even after receiving much-needed therapy, some patients ...

The Breast Health Project was formed to provide education and free screening mammograms to women (and men) who needed them.

Union Hospital of Cecil County and the Health Department teamed up with private medical providers to form Cecil Community Health Center. Th...

The Center for Miracles was formed to provide a place where abused children can be seen - in person - and evaluated, so the best decisions c...

All across New York's Long Island, there are people who are uninsured, under-insured and undocumented who are in need of healthcare. Throug...

The Community Health Services Division in Vincennes, Indiana, provides free screenings and programs for the uninsured and under-insured who ...

In New Hampshire, the Concord Hospital Family Health Centers serve two needs. One, they provide low-cost or free health care, mental health...

The Diabetes Education Program has proven many times that lifestyle changes can prevent, delay or even reverse long-term complications of di...

At the Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Center at Dimensions Healthcare System in Maryland, after Forensic Nurse Examiners perform exams, ...

St. Elizabeth's Hospital employees volunteered - during lunch hours and weekends - to tend a garden on hospital grounds to provide fresh foo...

The Ellen Hermanson Breast Care Center Community Outreach program provides screenings for free to Latinas on Long Island, New York.

The goal of the Especially for You Race Against Breast Cancer is two-fold: to educate people about the importance of early detection and to ...

AccessHealth Spartanburg works to put healthcare within the reach of people who don't have insurance by connecting them to a network of dona...

The Access to Care Program helps uninsured people in North Hollywood, California, find medical homes, lowering their healthcare costs, and i...

For more than 20 years, the Action Against Hunger Food Drive has been collecting money and food to stock dozens of pantries across northern ...

The relocation of an artist's shop from a suburb to the urban area of Kansas City, Missouri, exposed a tremendous need for the area's homele...

For many people, grabbing fast food is an occasional, quick alternative to a home-cooked meal.

The Heart to Play program in Newark, Ohio, is working to save the lives of children by detecting heart problems that middle- and high-school...

The Positive Link program in Bloomington, Indiana, works to educate the community and HIV/AIDS patients, and strive for early medical interv...

In the rough-and-tumble world of sports, it's important to protect athletes from repeated head injuries. The ImPACT program of starts with...

The Lincoln E.D. Connections program in Lincoln, Nebraska, assists patients with little or no insurance in finding appropriate, and more aff...

Mission HealthCare, a primary and preventive care and drug treatment center in Atlantic City, New Jersey, provides free and low-cost healthc...

Adirondack Medical Center discovered that many patients of its dental clinic were driving 45 minutes to an hour - or even longer - to get to...

The overarching goal of the Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Prevention Program is to deliver HIV-negative babies. That starts with educatin...

The Benefis Native American Welcoming Center allows people to gather, participate in traditional prayer and get support.

The Project Access Saturday Surgery Day gathers volunteer surgeons, nurses and other medical workers twice a year to perform - at no charge ...

The Refugee Healthcare Program stepped in to help meet the critical need for medical for hundreds of refugees in Rochester, New York. It hir...

The Rural Health Innovation Collaborative brought together partners from rural and urban areas, as well as private, public and government en...

Sarah Bush Lincoln Dental Services, near Mattoon, uses volunteer dental health professionals and partnerships with health departments and sc...

Senior Life Solutions in Fairfield, Illinois, works to help people regain a good quality of life by treatment of mental health issues in a p...

The St. Joseph Health Services Pediatric Dental Program treats more than 36,000 low-income children yearly in three locations around Provide...

The University of Mississippi Medical Center Mississippi Health Linkages Telehealth Project (MHLTP) features real-time streaming video that ...

The Transition Center in Tallahassee, Florida, enhances the healing process by giving more medical oversight, education and care planning th...

UAB HealthSmart provides free services to prevent heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and other chronic conditions.

Wheels for the World in Augusta, Georgia, collects used manual wheelchairs, walkers, canes, crutches, standing devices and repair parts for ...

The catchy name of the 5-4-3-2-1-GO! Program is simple to remember and easy to implement. And it's making kids in Ohio healthier.

Improving the health of people in targeted communities is the main goal of the ARCHES Project in Philadelphia.

Breathmobile Program: Pediatric Asthma Disease Management Program help children in Los Angeles manage their asthma. The 34-foot mobile clini...

CARE Maternal/Child Health Clinic is working to meet the medical and cultural needs of the refugee community by increasing understanding and...

Residents of rural Nebraska have a strong resource for learning about healthy lifestyles -- specifically, smart food choices and exercise.

Concussion Program in Aurora, Colorado, trains coaches and parents to recognize the signs of concussions, as well as how to prevent them. If...

Compassion, trust and tireless attention to patients' health has caused a dramatic increase in the numbers of people served by Diabeticos Sa...

Nurses at St. Mary's Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, saw a need to serve one of the most vulnerable groups of patients: victims of sexual or...

The Healthier Laramie County program has flourished in its 15 years. It strives to improve the well-being of people who have little or no ac...

Cook Children's Homeless Initiative was launched to provide a medical home to the pediatric homeless population of Tarrant County, Texas. Th...

The Memorial FIT Kids program in Owosso, Michigan, is a collaborative effort to combat cardiovascular disease through school-based education...

A Journey with Joe into Diabetes is a novel approach to diabetes prevention that targets elementary grade students across northwest Missouri...

Access Carroll is a collaborative community program that provides free primary and specialty health care to uninsured, low-income Carroll Co...

The Amish Health & Safety Initiative was developed to help meet the unique health and lifestyle needs of the more than 12,000 Chardon, Ohio ...

The Annual Caregiver Conference was developed to address the needs of caregivers providing home care services for the aging population in Du...

For 22 years, McLeod Medical Center Dillon has provided free and low-cost health screenings at an annual Health Fair.

Assertive Community Outreach is a program that has helped hundreds of individuals living in shelters or on the streets of Kansas City succes...

The Borgess Center for Diabetes Care is the only full-service diabetes treatment program in the Kalamazoo, Michigan are to provide high-qual...

Patients who have suffered brain injury often need support to return to competitive employment and to a life that feels productive. As "mem...

For some families of Burke County in rural North Carolina, the loss of traditional industries meant the loss of jobs and key benefits. The ...

The Community Aid, Relief, Education and Support (C.A.R.E.S.) Clinic is an innovative free medical clinic and learning experience for interp...

The McLeod Cancer Clinic in Florence, S.C., was created as a not-for-profit free cancer clinic, and it is the only one of its kind in the st...

The Cardiovascular Care Program provides comprehensive, high-quality care for patients with heart disease, regardless of their ability to pa...

The CareAdvisor program was designed to address the issue of uninsured patients with chronic illnesses who were using the Emergency Room at ...

The CareDirect Patient Referral Program is designed to reduce the use of the emergency department for primary care services by helping ensur...

The Care Car Program provides essential transportation services in four counties in Southeast Kansas for elderly and disabled patients in ne...

Care Reach was created to make the children of South Carolina's Lee County School District healthier. Thousands of children - some with no ...

The Center for Healthy Living SNAP-Ed Program works to improve school-based nutrition education so participants will choose healthy foods an...

The CHRISTUS Pediatric Mobile Clinic seeks to provide a medical home where under-insured and underserved children in the San Antonio area ca...

2010 PROGRAM OF EXCELLENCE. Diane Patterson, Director of the Children's Village in Yakima, Washington, fondly recalls a young boy with speci...

Joan Talley has turned the personal tragedy of Alzheimer's into an opportunity to improve the lives of hundreds of patients she doesn't even...

2010 PROGRAM OF EXCELLENCE. Low income patients with diabetes or heart failure who don't meet the criteria for home health care can be at pa...

The Community Health Resource Center, sponsored by the General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital, promotes unit readiness and organizatio...

Community Initiatives is a unique spectrum of health and social services offered to the residents of southern Park heights, an impoverished,...

Goodall Hospital executed a plan in Sanford, Maine, to inoculate 1,200 children against the H1N1 flu virus in a one-day clinic during the H1...

The Aspirus Community Partnership Fund is a collaboration between Aspirus Wausau Hospital and Women's Community, Inc. - a private nonprofit ...

Ephraim McDowell Health Community Services is an innovative, outcomes-oriented program for addressing unmet healthcare needs in the Danville...

The CPR Anytime program was designed to reduce the number of sudden cardiac arrest deaths within the Jersey City and Secaucus communities, t...

The Dean & St. Mary's Neighborhood Asthma Clinic is a collaborative program that addresses the needs of medically underserved residents in M...

The Diabetes Symposia Series was designed to combat Type 2 diabetes. The series provides free screenings, demonstrations, nutrition informat...

The Dr. Miles and Lib Mason Children's Clinic in Lawrenceville, Georgia, is dedicated to serving the uninsured and under-insured children in...

The Emergency Department Consistent Care Program was developed in conjunction with the CHOICE Regional Health Network - a nonprofit communit...

Fields of Green serves as an umbrella organization for four health and nutrition education programs that target the problem of obesity in no...

The Sparrow Foundation in Lansing, Michigan, launched Fitness Initiative Targeting Kids (FITKids) to combat the significant problem of child...

Flu-Free Quad Cities is a flu vaccination program for the 10-county region of Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois that is served by Genesis He...

The Hocking Valley Community Hospital Food Drive in Logan, Ohio, began five years ago with a contest to see which hospital employees could d...

The New Hampshire Health Access Network was established as a response to the increasing number of uninsured and under-insured New Hampshire ...

The Gibson General Healthcare Foundation, an affiliate of West Tennessee Healthcare, serves programs and individuals in its rural community ...

The University of Tennessee Global Health Initiative is a program for university internal medicine residents who wish to gain firsthand expe...

Guided Chronic Care is an innovative approach to better serve vulnerable patients in the Kansas City area who suffer from chronic diseases.

After the devstating earthquake in Haiti, a team of staff members from Forest Park Medical Center scrambled to collect medical equipment and...

2010 PROGRAM OF EXCELLENCE. Northeast Georgia Medical Center's primary mission is to improve the health of the communities it serves, and th...

St. Luke's Episcopal Health Charities is a unique public charity anchored in public health principles and focused on reducing health dispari...

Health Connections works with numerous community partners to provide health screenings, educational programs and community presentations in...

The Health Resources Navigator Program helps uninsured patients find access to healthcare and to find a "medical home."

Healthy Beginnings was established to serve socially at-risk women during their pregnancies to help them adopt healthy lifestyles, thereby i...

FET Kids is a collaboration between San Juan Regional Medical Center and four northern New Mexico school districts to empower children and t...

2010 PROGRAM OF EXCELLENCE. Being named the most obese and unhealthy community in the United States is a wake-up call for anyone in the so-n...

The Healthy You program promotes overall well-being through screenings, workshops, exercise classes, contests and many more engaging program...

INTEGRIS Health began the Hispanic Initiative in 2003 to improve the quality of life in Oklahoma's Hispanic community through education, res...

The Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Community Health Screening in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York gives life-saving information to s...

2010 PROGRAM OF EXCELLENCE. The infant mortality rate in Detroit is a startling 14.9 per 1,000 live births, which is twice the national aver...

The InovaCares Clinic for Women and Children, which works in partnership with the Fairfax (Va.) County Health Department, was established to...

The International Fellowship in Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care Research is a training program for both medical postgra...

Harborview Medical Center's Interpreter Services program helps patients with limited English proficiency receive better, more focused health...

The KOALA (Keeping Older Adults Living Abundantly) Adult Day Services Program provides adult day care/day health programs for elderly reside...

The primary goal of LEAP is to address the health education needs of low-income residents in the Lima, Ohio area who have diabetes. The prog...

The Mary's Gift program provides free diagnostic and screening mammograms to low-income, uninsured women in Wise County, Texas.

The Medical Transportation Service was established to provide free transportation to and from medical appointments for Streator, Illinois re...

The Memorial Meals Program is dedicated to providing quality nutrition to the residents of Union County, Ohio, and surrounding communities t...

The Clark Memorial Hospital Men's Health Fair and Car Show is an annual event in Jeffersonville, Indiana, to increase awareness among men an...

Men's Health University is a series of events aimed at educating men in the Oklahoma City area about the benefits of receiving routine healt...

The Marguerite d'Youville Program serves anyone affiliated with the medical center who demonstrates financial need.

Major disparities affect the health of minorities in the Greenville community. The Minority Health Summit offer resources to equip African-A...

The "Missionaries to Iowa" program partnered with the local religious community to train Catholic nuns from Africa and India to become certi...

Mission H2O: Maji for Kenya was a program designed to help provide safe, clean water to an African community.

The Mobile Food Pantry is a collaboration between NorthCrest Medical Center, Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee, and the Robertson...

The Mobile Health Clinic is an innovative and collaborative healthcare service for medically underserved children and other individuals in t...

The MobileMed/NIH Heart Clinic at Suburban Hospital in Montgomery County, Maryland, is a partnership between the hospital, Mobile Medical Ca...

The Navy Trauma Training Center is the Navy's first comprehensive training program to provide experience and knowledge to naval medical team...

Operation Outreach is a mobile health care unit designed to address the primary care needs of the homeless in Memphis, Tennessee.

Outdoor Adventures is a year-round therapeutic recreation program for individuals with various types of disabilities. As part of a medically...

The Outpatient Care Management Program in Galveston, Texas, is an integrated care and disease management model that focuses on high-risk uni...

Dixie Regional's Physician Referral Program was created to connect patients with healthcare providers.

The Pine Ridge Regional Medical Clinic provides much-needed specialty medical care to the Oglala Sioux people of Pine Ridge Indian Reservati...

The Prescription Delivery Program is a partnership with a pharmacy to make it easier for patients in rural upstate New York to access pharma...

Project H.E.A.L. (Health, Education, Access, Link) is an outreach program of Mid-Minnesota Family Medicine Center, St. Cloud Hospital and se...

The Prostate Cancer Screening Program was developed to offer prostate cancer education, screening, patient navigation and treatment to minor...

Transylvania Regional Hospital's Rx Assistance Program helps low-income patients get their medications through free programs offered by phar...

Through collaboration with a number of community organizations and businesses, Lehigh Valley Hospital's Safe Ride program provides car seats...

Banner's School-Based Health Centers seek to improve the health and well-being of uninsured and under-insured school-aged children in three ...

The San Diego-based Medical Response Team provided relief staff for a temporary clinic in Houston to help victims of Hurricane Katrina, trea...

The Senior Clinic in Battle Creek, Michigan, works to improve the health metrics of targeted low-income seniors through increased access to ...

The Senior Services Healthy Living Connections program supports older adults during and after hospital stays.

The Sister & Sister Free Mammogram Program was developed to increase mammogram screening and survival rates among hard-to-reach uninsured an...

The Sobering Center of Tacoma, Washington, is a 24-hour supervised facility designed to divert homeless, intoxicated adults from local hospi...

The Student Health Center at Chabot College works to ensure a safe learning environment, and to keep students as healthy as possible throug...

The Student Health Center at Las Positas College works to ensure a safe learning environment, and to keep students as healthy as possible th...

The Student Wellness Center serves the 2,200-student community of Grand Island Senior High School in Grand Island, Nebraska, to provide much...

The Thanksgiving Meal in a Bag program was initiated in 2008 by Monroe County Hospital in Monroeville, Alabama, as a way to provide Thanksgi...

T3 works with various community partners to provide residents in the Sacramento area, who chronically use the emergency room for non-emergen...

The Center for Healthier Communities serves as the hub for Rady Children's Hospital's health improvement programs.

2010 PROGRAM OF EXCELLENCE. The Community Wellness Program, a prevention-focused program that works to provide community members with the kn...

The Mom Project was created to address the large number of women from the rural Big Bear Valley area of California who were giving birth in ...

The Norma J. Peal, Ph.D. Healthy Reading Program was developed to combat the problem of illiteracy in Pima County, Arizona.

2010 PROGRAM OF EXCELLENCE. When a parent support group served by an outreach program more than 25 years ago still meets on a monthly basis,...

2010 PROGRAM OF EXCELLENCE. The pastor at the Cape May, New Jersey church was stunned one week, when "Helen" rose from the pew and, without ...

The SHARE Initiative is a collaboration between Shepherd Center, TRICARE and Humana Military Healthcare Services to provide a continuum of r...

2010 PROGRAM OF EXCELLENCE. The Sterling community in Greenville, S.C., was once a thriving neighborhood and a vigorous center of African-Am...

The Wallace Road Clinic in Nashville, Tennessee, along with United Neighborhood Health Services, serves Latino patients with healthcare need...

2010 PROGRAM OF EXCELLENCE. It's not uncommon for a large, industrial community like Toledo to have a significant population of uninsured. H...

The Trauma Survivor Reunion program organizes an annual gathering of survivors of trauma to help to promote healing among both patients and ...

The Trinity Center for Women was born out of a desire on the part of physicians and midwives of OB/GYN Associates in Columbus, Georgia, to s...

The UpClose Cardiac Surgery Program educates 7th grade students about the importance of establishing heart-healthy habits early in life. Af...

The Delnor Vaccines for Children Clinic in Geneva, Illinois, was developed with the help of several community partners and medical providers...

Union Hospital's Wabash County Rural Telehealth Network Program provides internet-based and live video telemedicine consultations to bridge ...

Wellness on Wheels (WOW) is a 42-foot mobile health clinic that provides free screening services to the medically underserved and indigent r...

The Women's Outpatient Center in Milwaukee is an innovative central-city OB/GYN clinic dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare and cri...

Getting children in good physical condition is the purpose of the Healthy Kids Club in Joliet, Illinois.