Capstone Projects
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The Capstone team was asked to evaluate the validity of complaints that the client has received from health care providers regarding the improper administration of claims by managed care organizations (MCOs). Providers have alleged that claims are …
New York State Attorney General, Health Care Bureau
The Capstone team developed a decision-making model for the Weill Cornell IPA and Physician Organization to assess the value of contracted managed care plans based on a variety of selected performance measures. The model is intended to benchmark plan …
Weill Cornell Physician Organization
In the wake of the 1997 Asian fiscal crises and the demise of the Suharto regime, the government of Indonesia has implemented a decentralization program that is considered the new hope for development and growth in the country. If local government …
World Bank, Jakarta Urban Development Office
The mission of the Wise Giving Alliance (WGA), a national organization affiliated with the Better Business Bureau, is to monitor nonprofits that receive the majority of their funding from private contributions. Nonprofits are rated as passing or failing …
Applied Research Capstone
Public transportation security became a main focal point after the September 11 attacks. How public transportation agencies responded to the attacks provides unique case studies for transportation planners and managers. With transit systems open and …
Independent Research
The Capstone team was asked to review New York Citys franchise, revocable consent, and concession process to determine if additional revenue could be generated for the City through process changes and improvements. The Capstone team identified three City …
Citizens Budget Commission
The Capstone team evaluated the Partners In Caring program (PiC), a grant that allows social workers to deliver counseling, group therapy, and educational workshops in a place Jews congregatethe synagogue. The grant was made by the federated body that …
UJA-Federation of New York, F·E·G·S
Pediatric Emergency Department Quality Study in Pulmonary Medicine San Juan de Dios Hospital is a Catholic teaching hospital in Barcelona, Spain that specializes in pediatrics, obstetrics, and gynecology. It receives a substantial number of pediatric …
San Juan de Dios Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
Pediatric Emergency Department Quality Study in Pulmonary Medicine San Juan de Dios Hospital is a Catholic teaching hospital in Barcelona, Spain that specializes in pediatrics, obstetrics, and gynecology. It receives a substantial number of pediatric …
San Juan de Dios Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
The Medical and Health Research Association of New York City (MHRA) is a large decentralized nonprofit organization providing diverse public health services to at-risk New Yorkers. The Capstone team was charged with identifying performance measures for …
Medical and Health Research Association
The former site of the Washburn Wire Factory in Pleasant Village is currently owned by a developer who plans to turn the site into East River Plaza (ERP). ERP, a big box retail complex, is based on uncertainties and may not be built as planned. The scale …
Municipal Arts Society and CIVITAS
The Capstone team worked with the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), the Kingdom of Cambodias Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), and the Cambodian Development Resource Institute (CDRI), a local nongovernmental organization, in the …
United Nations Capital Development Fund
The Capstone team was sponsored by the United Nations Capital Development Fund and World Bank to evaluate a national decentralization program, recently established to develop grassroots democracy and alleviate poverty. Research focused on the emerging …
United Nations Capital Development Fund and World Bank
The Capstone team was asked by the Medical and Health Research Association (MHRA), in collaboration with the Council for Senior Centers and Services (CSCS), to conduct research about the New York City aging population, with a particular focus on three …
Medical and Health Research Association, Inc
The confluence of rural economic decline and a booming prison population led to a growth industry for prison construction in the 1980s. In the past 20 years, roughly 1,000 new prisons and jails have been built in the United States. Since 1980, …
The Katherine A. McDonald Education Advocacy Project (EAP) was founded as an initiative of the Juvenile Rights Division at the Legal Aid Society of New York in order to provide early intervention and special education advocacy for disabled and …
The Legal Aid Society of New York, Katherine A. McDonald Education Advocacy Project
In order to address the urgent need to develop the human resource capacity in public and health policy and management in Mozambique, NYU Wagner in 2003 was invited to offer an NYU Wagner Masters degree at Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) through an NYU …
NYU Wagner and Eduardo Mondlane University
In order to address the urgent need to develop the human resource capacity in public and health policy and management in Mozambique, NYU Wagner in 2003 was invited to offer an NYU Wagner Masters degree at Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) through an NYU …
NYU Wagner and Eduardo Mondlane University
The purpose of the Capstone teams project is to lay out how South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation (SOBRO) can leverage its resources in the South Bronx to create a retail corridor as popular as 125th Street in Harlem or Fordham Road in the …
South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation (SOBRO)
Montefiore Medical Center is an integrated healthcare delivery system serving patients in the Bronx and southern Westchester counties. The facility treats a significant number of patients through its Emergency Room Department (ED). Montefiores ED is …
Montefiore Medical Center
Every nonprofit organization has a mission. Many nonprofit organizations also constantly struggle to maintain and increase funding in order to carry out their missions to the fullest extent possible. More often than not, when a nonprofit organization …
Safe Horizon
Under the anticipated consolidation of the entity known broadly as Catholic Charities of New York, more than 44 different social service sites will be brought together under one set of policies and procedures. After speaking with department directors for …
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York
The Capstone team was asked by the Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) to advise on implementation of the Community Cardiovascular Demonstration Project, a Corporation-wide program intended to reduce morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular disease …
New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
Working with the New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS), the Capstone team recommended a design for a pilot workforce development program that targets a growing sector of the citys economy. In 2003, SBS assumed responsibility for adult …
New York City Department of Small Business Services