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You can't blame Linda Borg, who's covered education for the Providence Journal for roughly 10 years, if she sometimes feels as if she's not even speaking the same language as [...]

THE ESTATES AT SHENSTONE FARM SPRAWL OVER 500 ACRES of steeply rolling, barren hillside, at the point where northern Virginia's traffic-clogged suburbs finally surrender to the foothills of the Blue [...]

THANKS TO WILL BUNCH and The American Prospect for the fascinating and ultimately not surprising article on Rick Santorum's 'charity.' One more question--if the charity itself is not registered, I'm [...]

Roughly half of all people with severe mental disorders also have substance abuse problems. Yet their care is fragmented: They are treated by either the mental health system or the substance abuse system. In New York State only 10 percent of them receive evidence-based treatment for both conditions. Beginning in 2007 the New York State Health Foundation and two state agencies-the Office of Mental Health and the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services-began collaborating on ways to integrate the treatment of people with co-occurring disorders. The state agencies removed financial and regulatory barriers to integrated treatment. The foundation provided funding to establish the Center for Excellence in Integrated Care. The center's goal: provide hands-on assistance in implementing best practices to at least half of the state's 1,200 mental health and substance abuse treatment clinics. An evaluation found that the percentage of clinics using best practices doubled after the regulatory and financial changes and the center's intervention. This illustrates the potential that foundations, governments, and nonprofits, working collaboratively, have to improve the care of a neglected and difficult-to-serve population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wilhelmina Korevaar's career path as a physician executive has taken many twists and turns. Early on, she didn't even want to be a doctor. Now, she's foxtrotting down yet another path, trying to use dance to help patients relieve their pain.