May 6, 2013
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Program Result
The Covering Kids & Families program was designed to find, enroll and retain eligible children and adults in federal and state health care coverage programs. Statewide and local coalitions in all 50 states and the District of Columbia participated.
February 25, 2013
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Program Result
Coming Home: Affordable Assisted Living is a national program to develop affordable models of assisted living, with a focus on smaller and rural communities and low-income seniors.
October 4, 2011
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Program Result
The Center for Health Care Strategies helped states create long-term-care insurance partnership programs that provide affordable coverage and financial protection for beneficiaries, generate business for insurers, and protect Medicaid budgets.
January 26, 2011
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Program Result
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Emergency Department Consistent Care Program was established under the Foundation's Access Initiative, which awarded grants to 18 sites participating in the Covering Kids & Families national program.
May 18, 2010
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Program Result
Developing an accreditation system to encourage public health departments to measure their performance against national standards.
March 2, 2010
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Program Result
One of the Covering Kids & Families strategies was to help grantees improve and simplify the administrative processes for determining eligibility, enrolling eligible children and families in Medicaid or CHIP and retaining them in coverage.
March 2, 2010
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Program Result
Indiana Covering Kids & Families set as one of its early goals to stimulate conversation and collaboration between two agencies: one administering the school lunch program and the other eligibility for CHIP and other public health insurance.
March 2, 2010
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Program Result
In 2003, some 374,000 Florida children were potentially eligible for KidCare, the state's Children’s Health Insurance Program, but were not enrolled. The Covering Kids & Families statewide coalition faced an array of obstacles to closing the gap.
November 18, 2009
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Program Result
Kristin Schultz, the assistant director of a local public health department in rural Minnesota, was tired of always trying to do more with less and overwhelmed by the challenges of working in public health.
November 18, 2009
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Program Result
In the 1990s, Oklahoma had one of the best public health infrastructures in the nation, with public health departments in 69 of its 77 counties.
