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| REBECCA SUSAN WELLSSummaryAffiliation: University of North Carolina Country: USA Publications
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Child welfare agency ties to providers and schools and substance abuse treatment use by adolescentsRebecca Wells
Department of Health Policy and Management, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7411, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 40:26-34. 2011..This unexpected finding implies that agencies may sometimes cooperate to address problems and to improve service utilization...
Why do some health centers provide more enabling services than others?Rebecca Wells
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1104F McGavran Greenberg Hall, Campus Box 7411, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7411, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 20:507-23. 2009..There were several positive associations between indicators of patient need and the scope and volume of enabling services...- What motivates people to participate more in community-based coalitions?Rebecca Wells
Department of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Campus Box 7411, 1104F McGavran Greenberg Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7411, USA
Am J Community Psychol 42:94-104. 2008..Coalition process competence was not associated with participation. These results suggest that leadership inclusivity rather than process competence may best facilitate member participation... 
Adapting a dynamic model of interorganizational cooperation to the health care sectorRebecca Wells
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7411, USA
Med Care Res Rev 64:518-43. 2007..These findings indicate the utility of qualitative techniques to adapt theories developed in other sectors to health care contexts...- Do licensing and accreditation matter in outpatient substance abuse treatment programs?Rebecca Wells
Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina, 1104 F McGavran Greenberg Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7411, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 33:43-50. 2007..Licensing/accreditation may reveal as much about units' institutional environments as about the quality of treatment provided... - Is managed care closing substance abuse treatment units?Rebecca Wells
Department of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599 7411, USA
Manag Care Interface 20:28-32. 2007..Given the need for these facilities, however, and their vulnerability to closure, continued attention to managed care's potential influence is warranted... - Community-based coalitions' capacity for sustainable action: the role of relationshipsRebecca Wells
University of North Carolina, School of Public Health, Chapel Hill 27599, USA
Health Educ Behav 34:124-39. 2007..The authors conclude that coalitions' relational structures are measurable and that this dimension of capacity may affect sustainable capacity for health promotion... - Insights from a national survey into why substance abuse treatment units add prevention and outreach servicesRebecca Wells
Department of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy 1:21. 2006..Based on an ecological framework of organizational strategy, three categories of predictors were tested: (1) environmental, (2) unit-level, and (3) unit leadership... - Tracing the evolution of pluralism in community-based coalitionsRebecca Wells
Department of Health Policy and Administration, College of Health and Human Development, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
Health Care Manage Rev 29:329-43. 2004..This article contributes to theory by exploring how coalitions evolve over time across community boundaries, as well as to management practice by yielding guidance about how to build inclusive organizations... - Trends in behavioral health care service provision by community health centers, 1998-2007Rebecca Wells
Department of Health Policy and Management, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7411, USA
Psychiatr Serv 61:759-64. 2010..This investigation compared trends in behavioral health services provided by community health centers nationwide during the first several years of that initiative with immediately prior trends... - Using the balanced scorecard to characterize benefits of integration in the safety netRebecca Wells
Department of Health Policy and Administration, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Health Serv Manage Res 18:109-23. 2005..Findings imply that integration among health-care providers yields a wide range of benefits, but not necessarily quickly or financial in nature... - Health service access across racial/ethnic groups of children in the child welfare systemRebecca Wells
Department of Health Policy and Management, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7411, USA
Child Abuse Negl 33:282-92. 2009..This study examined health service access among children of different racial/ethnic groups in the child welfare system in an attempt to identify and explain disparities... - Organizational determinants of boundary spanning activity in outpatient substance abuse treatment programmesJeffrey A Alexander
Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 2029, USA
Health Serv Manage Res 21:168-77. 2008..This study sought to identify director, client, unit and market factors associated with active director boundary spanning... - Cross-functional team processes and patient functional improvementJeffrey A Alexander
Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, 109 Observatory Dr, Ann Arbor, MI. 48109, USA
Health Serv Res 40:1335-55. 2005..These findings indicate the potential appropriateness of managerial interventions to encourage member investment in team processes... - Strategy development in small hospitals: stakeholder management in constrained circumstancesRebecca Wells
Department of Health Policy and Administration, College of Health and Human Development, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
Health Care Manage Rev 29:218-28. 2004..Second, continual negotiations with key stakeholders facilitate the translation of CEOs' insights into organizational strategies... - Coordination between child welfare agencies and mental health service providers, children's service use, and outcomesYu Bai
Department of Health Policy and Administration, Pennsylvania State University, 604 Ford Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Child Abuse Negl 33:372-81. 2009..This study investigates whether IORs are associated with greater use of mental health services and improvement in mental health status for children served by the child welfare system...
Research Grants
- PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITY-BASED COALITIONSRebecca Wells; Fiscal Year: 2005..This study will lay the groundwork for subsequent research establishing a mid-range theory of community-based health promotion coalition participation. ..
- How Child Welfare Agency Management Affects Children's OutcomesRebecca Wells; Fiscal Year: 2007..Subsequent research will examine how child welfare and mental health agencies collectively affect children. ..
- How child welfare inter-agency cooperation may reduce youth HIV risk behaviorsRebecca Wells; Fiscal Year: 2007..These findings will inform managers of related health and social services.yield actionable guidance to child welfare agency managers and policy makers in allocating scarce resources. ..