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Access to Care for SCHIP and Medicaid Enrollees
February 1, 2005 | Evaluation
This memo examines site visit respondents' perceptions about access to care among those covered by Medicaid and SCHIP as well as the uninsured in the 10 sample states, and identifies some of the barriers to access that members of these groups experience.
Access to Care Impacts Hospitalization Rates for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions
April 1, 2001 | Program Result
The University of California studied access to primary care in selected communities to assess whether hospitalization rates for certain chronic conditions typically managed by outpatient care are valid and useful measures of community access to care.
Accuracy in Self-Reported Health Insurance Coverage Among Medicaid Enrollees
January 1, 2008 | Journal Article
In this study, the authors discover that Medicaid beneficiaries report their health insurance status fairly accurately in public surveys, which means that policy-makers and those studying health insurance may rely upon this data.
A Closer Look at the Olds Model
August 26, 2008 | Program Result
The architects of the Nurse-Family Partnership grounded the program's strategy and content in research and theory.
A Clubhouse Opens Doors and Opportunities for the Mentally Ill in Webster City, Iowa
July 1, 2002 | Program Result
The Mental Health Association in Hamilton County, Iowa, established a Compeer program, a nationwide program matching volunteers with people with mental illness or mental disabilities.
A Coalition Creates a Citywide Care Management System
January 13, 2011 | Program Result
The Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers created a citywide care management system, working with high emergency room and hospital users, providing transitional primary care aimed at moving patients to an appropriate primary care setting.
A Community-Mobilization Approach to Preventing Domestic Violence
April 20, 2012 | Program Result
Close to Home, a Dorchester, Massachusetts-based organization, using a community-mobilization approach to prevent domestic violence, launched an effort to replicate its prevention program in three communities in Massachusetts.
A Community Outreach and Education Model for Early Identification of Mental Illness in Young People
April 1, 2012 | Journal Article
PIER offers a new model for community health education that, in contrast to traditional mental health education, strengthens capacity for proactive engagement of key stakeholders in youth mental health.
A Continuing Program for Increasing Insurance Coverage Among Low-Income Families
June 1, 2010 | Evaluation
The evaluation of Covering Kids & Families� (CKF) found that broad-based cooperation on policy and procedural change?among advocacy groups, providers, state Medicaid and CHIP officials and other stakeholders? can be achieved and that such cooperation can be fundamental to increasing insurance coverage among children.
A Cost-Effectiveness Assessment of Employment Services in Supportive Housing
September 1, 2003 | Program Result
According to a 2007 report by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, the number of people in this country who were living in shelters or were unsheltered in January 2005 totaled 75 ...