Download or read book Community Based Facilitated Enrollment written by Kate Lawler and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1998, Governor Pataki and New York legislators created one of the country's most innovative programs for enrolling uninsured children and teens in public health insurance. Launched in 2000, the facilitated enrollment program uses community-based organizations and health plans to find and enroll "hard-to-reach" New Yorkers who have historically been left out of public health insurance. In 2001, the program was expanded to include adult-focused outreach and enrollment. Approximately 1.3 million of the state's uninsured are eligible for, yet simply not enrolled in, free or low-cost coverage through one of New York's four principle public insurance programs: (1) Child Health Plus A; (2) Child Health Plus B; (3) Medicaid; and (4) Family Health Plus. Often, they remain uninsured because they do not know they are eligible or because they confront insurmountable barriers to enrollment such as complex enrollment systems, language, limited literacy skills, rural distances, lack of transportation, fear or the inability to miss work to apply. This report focuses on the highly effective work of the more than 100 community-based facilitated enrollment agencies funded by New York State to conduct locally tailored outreach and enrollment in New York's public health insurance programs. These multi-service agencies, health and human service providers, immigrant service organizations and local government agencies meet the uninsured where they are, where they live, work, go to school and carry on everyday activities. Since 2000, they have enrolled more than 600,000 children, teens and adults. Tens of thousands more have received help with the often difficult annual renewal process. Recent Census data indicates that New York has 250,000 fewer uninsured children today than when facilitated enrollment was created. More low-income adults are also getting the health care they need to stay healthy and continue working. Pressure to relieve the burden of rising health care costs on local taxpayers has led to proposals to cut outreach, enrollment, eligibility and benefits in public health insurance programs. This report underscores the tremendous value these programs have in the lives of low income New Yorkers. In particular, it highlights how community based facilitated enrollment has brought health care access into the hearts of communities throughout New York State. Recommendations for the future include: (1) Fully funding the community based facilitated enrollment program; (2) Expanding the role of community-based facilitated enrollment projects to ensure that the people they enroll access the health care they need; (3) Streamlining the enrollment process for New York's public health insurance programs; (4) Modernizing the enrollment process through enhanced information technology; and (5) Protecting New York's public health insurance system against efforts to cut outreach, enrollment, eligibility and benefits. Statistics show that community-based facilitated enrollment is an effective and cost efficient investment to ensure that New York's public health insurance programs reach the families and individuals they were designed to serve. [This report was made possible with the generous support of the Altman Foundation.].
Download or read book Ready Set Enroll written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intent of this paper is to provide practical guidance to community health centers as they embark on the critical task of supporting their patients and communities in enrolling in Medi-Cal and subsidized Covered California insurance programs.
Download or read book Mobilizing the Community for Better Health written by Allan Formicola and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past ten years, The Northern Manhattan Community Voices Collaborative has put Columbia University and its hospitals in touch with surrounding community organizations and churches to facilitate vaccines, dental care, and nutritional improvement, along with other forms of healthcare and support. As the nation begins to recognize the importance of prevention, this unlikely yet enduring partnership reaffirms the wisdom of joining "town and gown" to improve the well-being of a community. Each chapter in this volume is authored by a staff member of a participating institution, and altogether they share the successes, failures, and stumbling blocks of implementing such a vast and delicate program. A representative of Alianza Dominicana, for example, one of the country's largest groups for settling new immigrants, speaks to the value of community-based organizations in ridding a neighborhood of crime-a vital step in the plan to move forward. Allan Formicola and Lourdes Hernandez-Cordero outline the beginnings and infrastructure of the collaboration and the relationship between leaders that fueled its positive outcomes. Their portrait demonstrates how grassroots solutions can mutually benefit communities as well as institutions and yield productive dialogues about difficult issues.
Download or read book Medicaid Eligibility Quality Control written by United States. Social and Rehabilitation Service and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mobilizing the Community for Better Health written by Allan J. Formicola and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1999 to 2009, The Northern Manhattan Community Voices Collaborative put Columbia University and its Medical Center in touch with surrounding community organizations and churches to facilitate access to primary care, nutritional improvement, and smoking cessation, and to broker innovative ways to access healthcare and other social services. This unlikely partnership and the relationships it forged reaffirms the wisdom of joining "town and gown" to improve a community's well-being. Staff members of participating organizations have coauthored this volume, which shares the successes, failures, and obstacles of implementing a vast community health program. A representative of Alianza Dominicana, for example, one of the country's largest groups settling new immigrants, speaks to the value of community-based organizations in ridding a neighborhood of crime, facilitating access to health insurance, and navigating the healthcare system. The editors outline the beginnings and infrastructure of the collaboration and the relationship between leaders that fueled positive outcomes. Their portrait demonstrates how grassroots solutions can create productive dialogues that help resolve difficult issues.
Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Download or read book TSA s Efforts to Advance Risk based Security written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security. Subcommittee on Transportation Security and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Care Without Coverage written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Americans believe that people who lack health insurance somehow get the care they really need. Care Without Coverage examines the real consequences for adults who lack health insurance. The study presents findings in the areas of prevention and screening, cancer, chronic illness, hospital-based care, and general health status. The committee looked at the consequences of being uninsured for people suffering from cancer, diabetes, HIV infection and AIDS, heart and kidney disease, mental illness, traumatic injuries, and heart attacks. It focused on the roughly 30 million-one in seven-working-age Americans without health insurance. This group does not include the population over 65 that is covered by Medicare or the nearly 10 million children who are uninsured in this country. The main findings of the report are that working-age Americans without health insurance are more likely to receive too little medical care and receive it too late; be sicker and die sooner; and receive poorer care when they are in the hospital, even for acute situations like a motor vehicle crash.
Download or read book School Family and Community Partnerships written by Joyce L. Epstein and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.
Download or read book Medicaid and SCHIP states enrollment and payment policies can affect children s access to care report to the Ranking Minority Member Committee on Energy and Commerce House of Representatives written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building a Better Tomorrow written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicaid and SCHIP comparisons of outreach enrollment practices and benefits report to the Ranking Minority Member Committee on Commerce House of Representatives written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Politics of State Health Policy written by Robert B. Hackey and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State governments in the past decade have had to take on the problem of health care, with mixed results. This collection of 11 essays (of which two are an introduction and conclusion) by academics and policy makers consider the many issues that concern health care in the US and their effects at the state level, including managed care, health insurance expansion, mental health care, public health administration, and bureaucratic reactions to health policy. Hackey teaches health policy and management at Providence College in Rhode Island; Rochefort teaches political science and public administration at Northeastern U. in Boston. c. Book News Inc.
Download or read book Building Bridges Between Policy People written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Consolidated Laws of New York written by New York (State) and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care: Moving Upstream to Improve the Nation's Health was released in September 2019, before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic in March 2020. Improving social conditions remains critical to improving health outcomes, and integrating social care into health care delivery is more relevant than ever in the context of the pandemic and increased strains placed on the U.S. health care system. The report and its related products ultimately aim to help improve health and health equity, during COVID-19 and beyond. The consistent and compelling evidence on how social determinants shape health has led to a growing recognition throughout the health care sector that improving health and health equity is likely to depend â€" at least in part â€" on mitigating adverse social determinants. This recognition has been bolstered by a shift in the health care sector towards value-based payment, which incentivizes improved health outcomes for persons and populations rather than service delivery alone. The combined result of these changes has been a growing emphasis on health care systems addressing patients' social risk factors and social needs with the aim of improving health outcomes. This may involve health care systems linking individual patients with government and community social services, but important questions need to be answered about when and how health care systems should integrate social care into their practices and what kinds of infrastructure are required to facilitate such activities. Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care: Moving Upstream to Improve the Nation's Health examines the potential for integrating services addressing social needs and the social determinants of health into the delivery of health care to achieve better health outcomes. This report assesses approaches to social care integration currently being taken by health care providers and systems, and new or emerging approaches and opportunities; current roles in such integration by different disciplines and organizations, and new or emerging roles and types of providers; and current and emerging efforts to design health care systems to improve the nation's health and reduce health inequities.
