Retail Clinic Visits and Receipt of Primary Care
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
A public health debate is ongoing with respect to the consequences of retail clinic use.
Community Health Centers (Clinics, FQHCs)
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Integrating Community Health Centers Into Organized Delivery Systems Can Improve Access to Subspecialty Care
August 1, 2012 | Journal Article
These researchers determined that the Integrated System model appears to provide the most comprehensive and cohesive access to subspecialty care.
Free Clinics Helping to Patch the Safety Net
February 1, 2004 | Journal Article
Volunteer-based clinics have existed in the United States for decades providing health care to the uninsured and underinsured. These free clinics all share a common dependence on volunteer staff and philanthropic provision of financial and non-finan ...
Safety-Net Providers In Some US Communities Have Increasingly Embraced Coordinated Care Models
August 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Safety-net organizations, which provide health services to uninsured and low-income people, increasingly are looking for ways to coordinate services among providers to improve access to quality of care and to reduce costs. In this analysis, a part o ...
Tool Used to Assess How Well Community Health Centers Function as Medical Homes May Be Flawed
February 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The patient-centered medical home model holds the potential for reducing disease complications and improving health, and the federal government is now promoting the adoption of the model within federally qualified community health centers.
Positive and Negative Spillovers of the Health Disparities Collaboratives in Federally Qualified Health Centers
December 1, 2010 | Journal Article
A study to assess the unintended effects of quality improvement interventions found that the Health Disparities Collaborative intervention had effects beyond what it intended, and that the unintended effects were more positive than negative.
Insurance Status and Quality of Diabetes Care in Community Health Centers
April 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This study compares the quality of diabetes care by insurance type in federally funded community health centers.
Effectiveness of a Grant Program's Efforts to Promote Synergy Within its Funded Initiatives
December 18, 2008 | Journal Article
Participants of the Southern Rural Access Program (SRAP) generally perceived that the SRAP's deliberate strategies yielded synergies that added to the program's impact.
Following the Call
November 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The recruitment and retention of well-trained, motivated health care providers in underserved communities is a longstanding problem that has led researchers and policy-makers to study providers' motivations for work among the underserved. This study ...
Transforming Primary Care
July 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Care Plus is an alternative structure of the medical home model that would improve health and lower costs, particularly for the frail elderly population.