Will Reform Strengthen or Strain the Health Care Safety Net?
October 25, 2012 | Story
RWJF Scholars chart opportunities and problems and pose solutions for protecting the health care institutions that serve the most vulnerable.
Community Health Centers (Clinics, FQHCs)
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Award-Winning Community Health Practices Discovered After Katrina
August 2, 2012 | Story
A Harold Amos Scholar helps create clinic network for New Orleans’ most vulnerable citizens.
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 ...
Federal Tool to Assess Community Health Centers May Be Flawed
March 21, 2012 | Story
RWJF scholar finds that a tool used to evaluate patient-centered care at community health centers might not measure the quality of care actually delivered.
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.
Nurse-Managed Health Clinics Provided Badly Needed Primary Care - But Without Funding, They and their Patients are at Risk
January 27, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
This is just one of many examples that illustrate how providers at nurse-led NMHCs treat the whole person and assess the environment their patients live in—not just a patient’s physical condition or disease history. Providers in NMHCs also spend mor ...
Pennsylvania Physician Provides Health Care, Hope to Working Poor
November 8, 2011 | Story
After living in the projects in Altoona, Pa. as a child, 2011 Community Health Leader provides free van-based health care to the working poor.
Bolstering Electronic Health Records at Four Community Health Centers in Chicago with Race, Ethnicity and Language Data
July 1, 2009 | Program Result Report
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.
Pipeline, Profession and Practice: Community-Based Dental Education
National Program
To assist dental schools.
Stepped-Up 11-City Project Creates Youth Programs, Primary-Care Clinics
December 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The Community Building Initiative of the Local Initiative Support Corporation carried out specific action plans in communities, including the creation of youth programs and primary care health clinics and the upgrading of neighborhood parks and playgrounds.