comprehensive health care

..Federally-qualified community health centers (CHC) provide comprehensive health care services to medically underserved persons regardless of ability to pay and are governed by a community ..

..that combines a significant founder effect and subsequent isolation with a Western life style and comprehensive health care system with excellent registers...

..that combines a significant founder effect and subsequent isolation with a Western life style and comprehensive health care system with excellent registers...

..health centers, and migrant and tribal health centers (referred to collectively as CHC) with their comprehensive health care programs that serve these populations...

..Geisinger is a comprehensive health care network that serves more than 2...

..This experience offers important lessons for providing integrated health care to the frail elderly...

..PACE and state-based payment for in-home supportive services...

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..One medical clinic more than doubled the number of fluoride varnishes it provided, increasing from 80 to 167 during a nine-month pilot phase. Other outcome studies are in progress...

..This article describes a collaborative model in the delivery of HIV care for HIV-infected individuals who remain fragile, both physically and psychosocially...

..It is argued that these strategies are particularly well suited to the study of emerging practices that reflect-and help drive-transformation in mental health systems...

..The PACC model allows a practice to meet many of the goals of serving as a medical home with a relatively small financial investment...

..It suggests that PACE programs can improve patient outcomes by improving the functioning of care teams...

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..A concerted attempt to provide a means of universal financial access as well as a medical home should be of high priority for the United States...

..The findings suggest the need for community mental health centers to better assess and address barriers to primary medical care...

..They require compassionate and comprehensive health care services to manage their physical disabilities and to prevent secondary conditions...

..Most participants are able to live at home while receiving a wide array of services at day care centers. Because the focus is on preventive care, hospitalizations and ED visits have been cut dramatically...

..Future research should refine long-term care strategies-such as ICM-that address the chronic nature of substance dependence among low-income populations...

..The former approach might be a preferred alternative for families in rural settings or families for whom access to a tertiary care medical center is difficult...

..Future studies of comprehensive prenatal case management should focus on cross-level questions...

..The Center for Medical Home Improvement has developed and tested an effective model of medical home improvement and tools to measure the status of a practice and its progress of change...

..In any case, the authors contend that this issue should be resolved by competition to attract and serve informed, cost-conscious, responsible consumers on a level playing field...

..Future efforts would be well served by carefully considering the incentive structures designed into these initiatives and working to improve them in the next generation of Medicare-Medicaid integration efforts...

The Indigent Patient Care Program (legislatively enacted in 1915) provides comprehensive health care to indigent Iowans without health insurance...

..Due to the relatively high cost of providing fragmented care to these children and youth, advances in coordinating access to services will have a cost-effective outcome...

..Nevertheless, gaps between knowledge and practice and unanswered questions about the effectiveness of organizational interventions currently limit the potential value of this approach to improving health care of older persons...

..CONCLUSIONS: Although state funding has increased overall, many states do not have comprehensive primary care programs, and an increasing number of states are experiencing budget deficits that may lead to reductions in existing programs...

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..MMCU have the potential to be covered more inclusively by primary or supplemental health insurance plans, including Medicare, Medicaid, and HMO's, or by special funding from state aging departments...

..To improve outcomes of HF patients throughout Europe more effort should be taken to increase the number of these programmes in all countries...

..The findings show that while some facilities were able to offer clients most of the services specified by the package, many others were unable do so. The urban renewal nodes differed noticeably in this respect...

..001). CONCLUSION: CGA and multidisciplinary intervention can improve health outcomes of older people at risk of deteriorating health and admission to hospital. Patients aged 75 and older should be referred for CGA after an ED visit...

..This article discusses a one-day study course offered at one NHS trust that was developed to address the educational needs of staff working on general wards...

..This comprehensive, simultaneous, and integrated approach is needed to achieve real progress in children's mental health in this country...

..CONCLUSIONS: Several of the factors influencing team effectiveness in PACE are potentially modifiable and, therefore, could offer insights for improving team practice...

..the federal Child Health Maternal Bureau have challenged each state to "assure access to ongoing comprehensive health care through a medical home" for all children with special health care needs...

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..Revisions to the Japanese system and implications for U.S. long-term care policy are discussed...

..This review explores those issues while building upon the six core outcomes delineated in the draft 10-year action plan offered as an accompaniment to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Healthy People 2010 guidelines...

..In this brief we explore the PACE model: what it is, how it works, who is enrolled and the challenges it faces in the future...

..This initiative could enhance the validity of existing evaluation instruments, from a communications perspective...

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..Some of the unique features of the comprehensive model are presenting services as a course for credit, providing grades, and using supportive course titles such as Individualized Communication Class...

..This application provides a historical basis for applying logic models of evaluation and illustrates the utility of logic models...

..However, much more work lies ahead before success can be claimed. This is especially true for the core outcome on transition to adulthood, for which only 6% of children in the target population are now meeting this goal...

..There is an immediate need for large-scale, practice-based studies of the outcomes for children and youth, providers, and the health care system when such improvements in primary care are implemented...

..This could be addressed by appropriately tailored training courses, combined with managerial work on systems and remits. Such a programme would be needed to realize the National Service Framework's concept of a 'comprehensive CAMHS'...

..Valencia Health Services is the rare nurse-managed academic health center that provides comprehensive health care to children and adolescents...

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..Additional study is needed to learn more about rural service delivery strategies that promote implementation of this approach in general practice...

..Disparities among CSHCN due to race and functional status should be considered in organizing services for CSHCN in North Carolina...

..The positive rating of the CHC is particularly impressive after taking into account that many CHC users have characteristics associated with poorer ratings of care...

..Options for collaboration between these two models of care are explored. Local communities that share both models benefit significantly when these two models negotiate a successful collaboration...

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..CONCLUSIONS: More comprehensive primary care delivery and a physician-patient relationship focused on mutual respect are associated with greater rates of physician inquiry about and treatment for depression among vulnerable women...