Library Impact Statement For Health Services Program,
2010
University of Rhode Island
Library Impact Statement For Health Services Program
Library Impact Statements
Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new program proposal for Health Services. Additional resources were required to support this new program. Responding faculty member: Joanna M. Burkhardt, CMO. Requesting faculty member: Deb Riebe
What's Happening: October, 2010,
2010
MaineHealth
What's Happening: October, 2010, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
The Primary Care Safety Net: Strained, Transitioning, Critical,
2010
George Washington University
The Primary Care Safety Net: Strained, Transitioning, Critical, Jessamyn Taylor
National Health Policy Forum
This background paper examines the primary care safety net. It describes key primary care safety net providers, including federally qualified health centers, free clinics, local health departments, and safety net hospital outpatient departments and clinics, among others. The paper also explores the changing role of the primary care safety net in a post–health reform marketplace.
High Hopes: Public Health Approaches To Reducing The Need For Health Care,
2010
George Washington University
High Hopes: Public Health Approaches To Reducing The Need For Health Care, Michele J. Orza
National Health Policy Forum
Driven in part by a desire to contain health care costs, policymakers are looking beyond medical care for opportunities to reduce the need for expensive services. This paper briefly reviews current public health concepts and strategies for improving health that emphasize nonmedical factors such as behavior, socioeconomic status, and environment. It also provides examples of how these concepts and strategies undergird many of the public health provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, other legislation, and several programs and initiatives. These concepts include prevention, health in all policies, global health, the One Health Initiative, and climate change and …
Renewing Health Services Management Research: Redrawing The Citizen-Client In Irish Health Care Policy,
2010
Technological University Dublin
Renewing Health Services Management Research: Redrawing The Citizen-Client In Irish Health Care Policy, Vivienne Byers
Conference Papers
Ireland has a history of health policy which is not explicit as to its aims and objectives. In light of this fact, this paper examines the position and direction of the Irish Health Services, five years on from the advent of the setting up of the Health Services Executive (HSE) and the restructuring of the health services. The Irish health system policy is guided by the Health Strategy of 2001; in that there should be equitable distribution of health services focused on the need of the citizen-client, and also by the Primary Care Strategy (2001:7); in that there should be …
What's Happening: September, 2010,
2010
MaineHealth
What's Happening: September, 2010, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
Governmental Public Health: An Overview Of State And Local Public Health Agencies,
2010
George Washington University
Governmental Public Health: An Overview Of State And Local Public Health Agencies, Eileen Salinsky
National Health Policy Forum
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act significantly expands federal support for community prevention and public health. This paper describes the governmental public health infrastructure at both the state and local level in terms of organizational structure, activities, financing, workforce, partnerships, and performance improvement efforts.
What's Happening: August, 2010,
2010
MaineHealth
What's Happening: August, 2010, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
Medicare Physician Fees: The Data Behind The Numbers,
2010
George Washington University
Medicare Physician Fees: The Data Behind The Numbers, Laura A. Dummit
National Health Policy Forum
Medicare’s physician fee schedule distributes nearly $60 billion annually and is a critical determinant of individual physicians’ incomes, beneficiaries' access to health care services, and Medicare spending, as well as the basis for physician fees used by many private payers. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) relies on data derived from expert judgment and other sources to update the fee schedule. Although CMS’s methods and data for maintaining the fee schedule have improved over the years, concerns remain about medical specialty society involvement and the lack of an effective ”counterweight” to vested interests in establishing and updating the …
Tapping The Potential Of The Health Care Workforce: Scope-Of-Practice And Payment Policies For Advanced Practice Nurses And Physician Assistants,
2010
Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, The George Washington University
Tapping The Potential Of The Health Care Workforce: Scope-Of-Practice And Payment Policies For Advanced Practice Nurses And Physician Assistants, Robert Cunningham
National Health Policy Forum
Expanding coverage and increasing delivery of team-based care are likely to entail a growing role in the
health system for advanced practice nurses (APNs), physician assistants (PAs), and other nonphysician clinicians. These professions have already grown rapidly and have increased access to primary and specialty care, especially in rural and other underserved areas. This background paper provides an overview of the role of APNs and PAs. It reviews the primary features of the training and credentialing of these health professions, including the impact of public policies and market forces on their growth and deployment. It describes variations in state scope-of-practice …
The Ethical Balancing Act Of Hospice Care,
2010
Otterbein University
The Ethical Balancing Act Of Hospice Care, Paul D. Longenecker
Health and Sport Sciences Faculty Scholarship
In providing hospice care, clinicians are confronted with ethical challenges on a daily basis involving their patients and families, their personal values and beliefs, and organizational practices. Being able to objectively understand these ethical challenges and having a plan of action to address is essential in effectively fulfilling the role of being a hospice professional.
What's Happening: July, 2010,
2010
MaineHealth
What's Happening: July, 2010, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
Keeping Health Insurance After A Job Loss: Cobra Continuation Coverage And Subsidies,
2010
George Washington University
Keeping Health Insurance After A Job Loss: Cobra Continuation Coverage And Subsidies, Kathryn Linehan
National Health Policy Forum
Many Americans under 65 have health insurance through an employer. Beginning in 1985, a federal law known as COBRA required that eligible workers and their dependents have the option to continue employer-based group health coverage when employment is terminated. Because premiums for COBRA coverage can be very expensive, the 111th Congress included provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (and subsequent legislation) to temporarily subsidize premiums for those who have lost their jobs since September 2008. This issue brief outlines the eligibility rules for COBRA as well as the current COBRA subsidies. It also discusses the possible …
Health Care Shortage Designations: Hpsa, Mua, And Tbd,
2010
George Washington University
Health Care Shortage Designations: Hpsa, Mua, And Tbd, Eileen Salinsky
National Health Policy Forum
A wide variety of federal programs designed to improve access to health care services rely on specific criteria to designate areas and populations eligible for funding and other types of aid. Two related yet distinct designations, the Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) and the Medically Underserved Area (MUA), are most commonly used to identify underserved people or places. This background paper reviews the methodologies currently utilized in these designations, identifies the federal programs that use these designations to allocate resources, describes proposals that have been advanced to consolidate and improve these designations, and discusses key issues and challenges for future …
Heath Care Spending: Why Is Miami An Outlier?,
2010
George Washington University
Heath Care Spending: Why Is Miami An Outlier?, Laura A. Dummit, Mary Ellen Stahlman
National Health Policy Forum
The National Health Policy Forum’s site visit to Miami focused on the complex factors that drive health care spending and is the latest in a series on the dynamics of health care markets. Miami has long been recognized as having among the highest Medicare per capita spending in the country, along with high rates of uninsured, strong managed care presence, and a history of health care fraud. This colorful health care market brings into stark relief many of the reasons for high and growing health care spending across the country. It also highlights several issues involved in building and maintaining …
What's Happening: June, 2010,
2010
MaineHealth
What's Happening: June, 2010, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
Physician Assessment: Measuring Competence And Performance,
2010
George Washington University
Physician Assessment: Measuring Competence And Performance, Lisa Sprague
National Health Policy Forum
No abstract provided.
The State Of The University Of Connecticut Health Center,
2010
University of Connecticut - Storrs
The State Of The University Of Connecticut Health Center, Ankeet S. Bhatt
Honors Scholar Theses
Academic medical centers represent the integration of education, namely schools of medicine and dental medicine, research, often through a biomedical sciences graduate program, and a clinical experience, often supplied with an onsite hospital. These medical centers involve an intricate mix of individuals and personalities, making their operation a difficult and sometimes daunting task. The University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) financial struggles have created a new opportunity, an affiliation with Hartford Healthcare, which will equip the UCHC with a major tertiary care University Hospital. This thesis intends to provide an analysis of the challenges and potential benefits of such a …
Hospital Performance Evaluation In Uganda: A Super-Efficiency Data Envelope Analysis Model,
2010
Makerere University
Hospital Performance Evaluation In Uganda: A Super-Efficiency Data Envelope Analysis Model, Bruno Yawe
Zambia Social Science Journal
Standard Data Envelope Analysis models result in a large fraction of the observations becoming 100 percent efficient. The article measures the technical efficiency of 25 district referral hospitals from three regions of Uganda over the 1999-2003 period. It applies a super-efficiency Data Envelopment Analysis model. The application of a super-efficiency model was occasioned by the failure of standard data envelopment analysis models to rank the efficient set of hospitals which attain an efficiency score of unity. The results of the standard data envelopment analysis models indicate the existence of different degrees of technical and scale inefficiency in Uganda’s district referral …
What's Happening: May, 2010,
2010
MaineHealth
What's Happening: May, 2010, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
