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Access Issues

 

Community Planning

Building Access to Health  Care   Florida Department of Health, 2001

Healthy People in Healthy Communities A Planning Guide Using Healthy People 2010

Community Tool Box Over 6,000 pages of practical  information on over 250 Topics

Tools for Monitoring the Health Care Safety Net Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

 

Insurance

Left Behind: Florida's Uninsured Children Families USA October 2008

Too Great a Burden: Florida Families at Risk Families USA, December 2007

Kids Waiting for Insurance: How Many in Your State Families USA, September 2007

New Book When an Apple a Day Isn't Enough: Student Speak Out About Health Coverage Order Here

Dying for Coverage in Florida Families USA, March 2008

 

Language Access and Immigrant Health

Immigration Concerns Impact Federally Funded Health Centers Migrant Clinicians Network October 2007

CANARIES IN THE COAL MINE: Healthcare Access Barriers Faced by Immigrants in Miami-Dade County Human Services Coalition, March 2007

Providing Healthcare to Non Citizens NACHC May 1997

Immigrant Eligibility for Services at Health Centers NACHC May 1997

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Medicaid and Medicare

Getting and Keeping Coverage: State's Experience with Citizenship Documentation Rules Commonwealth Fund January 2009

Assessing the Effects of Medicaid Documentation Requirements on Health Centers and Their Patients George Washington University, October 2008

Florida’s Medicaid Reform: Informed Consumer Choice? Health Affairs October 2008

An Evaluation of the Pilot Project To Reform Florida’s Medicaid Program James Madison Institute, July 2008

Florida's Medicaid Reform Pilot Programs: Challenges with Mental Health Services Jessie Ball Dupont Fund, May 2008

The Medicaid Citizenship Requirement One Year Later Families USA, September2007

Program Review of Florida's Medicaid Pilot Project Florida AHCA, October 2007

Florida Medicaid Reform: Six part editorial series Florida Times Union, July 2007

Uncertain Access to Needed Drugs Florida’s Medicaid reform creates challenges for patients Jessie Ball Dupont Fund, July 2007

Waving Cautionary Flags: Initial reactions from doctors and patients to Florida’s Medicaid changes Jessie Ball Dupont Fund, May 2007

Medicaid: A Primer Kaiser Family Foundation, March 2007

Medicare: A Primer Kaiser Family Foundation, March 2007

Citizens Who Lack Papers Lose Medicaid New York Times, March 2007

Medicaid Changes: What will they mean for Broward and Duval Counties and Beyond Jessie Ball Dupont Fund, September 2006

 

Recruitment and Retention

Out of Order Out of Time: The State of the Nation’s Health Workforce Association of Academic Health Centers 2008

CHC Recruitment and Retention Resources Compendium from the Community Health Association Mountain/Plains States

Health centers offer safety net, but rising demand a strain Gannett News July 2007

Community Health Clinics Flourish, but Doctors Are Few Washington Post June 2007

MD Resources, Inc Recruitment agency referred by NACHC. Discounts for NACHC members

 

 

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The Access Project Publications, projects, reports, stories and other resources and information from Brandeis University's Healthcare Access Project.