Using specially designed educational videos and software, and touch screen technology more patients can be efficiently seen and offered appropriate medical care. From 2005 to July 2008, 14,690 patients agreed to be HIV tested and 98 were confirmed as HIV positive patients including 88 newly diagnosed HIV patients.

Program - Really Awesome Health (RAH) and Wholesome Routines
Duke Raleigh Hospital, Raleigh, N.C.

Established with a collaboration between Duke Raleigh Hospital, the Alice Aycock Poe Center for Health Education and Rolesville Elementary School in 2000, RAH served as a model program for the larger initiative Wholesome Routines. The goal of RAH is to provide health education to kindergarten through 2nd graders with the hopes of preventing illness, increasing preventive health screenings and developing life-long healthy habits. In a partnership with the Poe Center, Wake County Public School System and The Duke Endowment, Wholesome Routines evolved and took health education one-step further. The school-based comprehensive nutrition and physical activity program is designed for 3rd and 5th graders in local counties.

Wholesome Routines provides assistance to approximately 700 students. Some successes include a decreasing prevalence of overweight children from 43 percent to 34 percent; 28 percent of participants reporting having fewer servings of fried snacks; and 39 percent of students reporting an increase in their weekly physical activity by an hour.

Program - Student Success Jobs Program
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass.
The Student Success Jobs Program (SSJP) is an intensive year-round employment and mentoring internship program for students of Boston public high schools. The program introduces students from the city's lowest-income communities to careers in health care, science and medicine by offering paid internships within the hospital. Now in its eighth year, the program creates pathways into science, health or medicine careers for those who have traditionally been underrepresented in the field.

SSJP is distinctive in that works on three levels to improve community health - by contributing to educational achievement for young people, enabling employment opportunity in communities of greatest need as well as increasing the diversity of the healthcare workforce as SSJP students proceed forward in their career. SSJP is comprised of multiple components that support the educational and social growth of participants. Aside from internships and mentoring from health care professionals, SSJP students attend monthly seminars, participate in academic tutoring, receive financial college scholarships and assistance with the college application process and have the opportunity to shadow physicians, nurses and other health care professionals in the emergency department, operating room and during patient rounds.

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