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An Assessment Of Hospital-Sponsored Health Care For The Uninsured In Polk County/Des Moines, Iowa, Lea Nolan, Marsha Regenstein, Marisa A. Cox
An Assessment Of Hospital-Sponsored Health Care For The Uninsured In Polk County/Des Moines, Iowa, Lea Nolan, Marsha Regenstein, Marisa A. Cox
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
Health care providers in Polk County are faced with increasing numbers of low-income, uninsured patients who do not have the resources to pay for their health care out of pocket. At the same time, state and local funding sources are limited, and are insufficient to ensure that these individuals have access to the health services that they require. Community leaders are extremely interested in developing information to understand the magnitude of the uninsured problem in Polk County and to identify health care delivery strategies to better serve this population. A Blue Ribbon Steering Committee was convened in October 2004 to …
Caring For Patients With Diabetes At Safety Net Hospitals And Health Systems: What The Patients Say About Their Care, Marsha Regenstein, Jennifer Huang, Dean Schillinger, Daniel Lessler, Brendan Reilly, Melanie Brunt, Jolene Johnson, John Piette
Caring For Patients With Diabetes At Safety Net Hospitals And Health Systems: What The Patients Say About Their Care, Marsha Regenstein, Jennifer Huang, Dean Schillinger, Daniel Lessler, Brendan Reilly, Melanie Brunt, Jolene Johnson, John Piette
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
In 2002, with support from The Commonwealth Fund, the National Public Health and Hospital Institute (NPHHI) created a consortium of safety net hospital systems to work together to address common concerns regarding the care of patients with diabetes. As part of that project, NPHHI conducted a survey of patients with diabetes who received at least some of their care from four Consortium hospital systems: Cambridge Health Alliance; Community Health Network of San Francisco/San Francisco General Hospital; Cook County Bureau of Health Services; and LSU/Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans. Patients were surveyed on multiple domains of care, including overall …
Stresses To The Safety Net: The Public Hospital Perspective, Marsha Regenstein, Jennifer Huang
Stresses To The Safety Net: The Public Hospital Perspective, Marsha Regenstein, Jennifer Huang
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
Every year, more than 10 million people receive care from public hospitals and health systems – a complex and diverse set of providers that share a mission to deliver health services to individuals, regardless of insurance coverage or ability to pay. Together with federally funded health centers, free clinics, public health departments and scores of individual physicians and other health practitioners, public hospitals provide critical access points for the nation's uninsured population and form a vast patchwork of providers that is commonly referred to as the health care safety net. Despite their importance, there is no single or stable source …
Assessing Legal Implications Of Using Health Data To Improve Health Care Quality And Eliminate Health Care Disparities, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Michael W. Painter
Assessing Legal Implications Of Using Health Data To Improve Health Care Quality And Eliminate Health Care Disparities, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Michael W. Painter
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
Information is — and always has been — essential to virtually all aspects of health care. Clinical treatment as well as coverage, payment, care quality, and certainly one's own personal health care decisions all depend profoundly on robust, accurate, appropriate, timely, private and secure information. Further, the ability to conduct largescale health services research is inextricably linked to information, as is the ability to measure population health and conduct surveillance of public health risks.