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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Community Health Center Established in a Florida Public Housing Complex
July 1, 2001 | Program Result
Halifax Medical Center formed a public-private collaboration – Volusia County Cooperative Health Group (the cooperative) – to expand access to primary and specialty care for underserved residents of the Daytona Beach/Volusia County, Fla., area.
Additional Services at Primary-Care Clinics Could Reduce Nonurgent Hospital Emergency Departments Visits
June 1, 2000 | Program Result
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey examined why people use hospital emergency departments for medically nonurgent situations - a situation that occurs in as many as two-thirds of pediatric visits to emergency departments.
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 ...
Bolstering Electronic Health Records at Four Community Health Centers in Chicago with Race, Ethnicity and Language Data
July 1, 2009 | Program Result
The Health Research and Educational Trust collected and integrated information on patients' race/ethnicity, primary language and socioeconomic status into an electronic health record system, and linked that information with clinical performance measures.
Community-Based Participatory Research Contributions to Intervention Research
February 10, 2010 | Commentary
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has emerged in the last decades as a transformative research paradigm that bridges the gap between science and practice through community engagement and social action to increase health equity. The authors of this study identify the barriers and challenges within the intervention and implementation of CBPR.
A Network of Medical Volunteers Expands in South Carolina
January 16, 2004 | Program Result
Starting in August 1994, a managed network of volunteer medical providers called Commun-I-Care continued ongoing efforts to provide non-emergency health care to the uninsured poor in South Carolina.
Minnesota Adds Physicians While Focusing on Community Health Centers
March 1, 2000 | Program Result
The Office of Rural Health and Primary Care, State of Minnesota Department of Health, worked to improve both needs assessment and support services for recruitment and retention in the state's rural areas.
Aggregating Physician Performance Data Across Health Plans
March 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
An effort to help enhance the quality and equality of U.S. health care.
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.