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How We Will Accomplish Our Objective We will increase the supply of health care providers, including under-represented minorities, who are likely to locate and remain in underserved communities most in need of primary health care services. Our efforts will focus on financial support for:

How We Will Accomplish Our Objective We will work with state governments to reduce the disparity in health insurance coverage through improved outreach and enrollment efforts to minority groups in our Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program.

How We Will Accomplish Our Objective We will continue to assist states in their efforts to promote and publicize the opportunity for eligible children and adults to enroll in Medicaid. Our strategy includes asking states to review their computer systems and eligibility processes to ensure that all families that are eligible for Medicaid bene

In addition to changing behavior and reducing environmental health risks, improving health in the United States involves assuring that everyone has access to health care. The focus of Goal 3 is to promote increased access to health care, especially for persons who are uninsured, underserved, or otherwise have health care needs that are not adequat

How We Will Accomplish Our Objective We will support an initiative to prevent falls--a leading cause of functional decline in the elderly. Our strategy will focus on:

How We Will Accomplish Our Objective To promote learning readiness of preschool children from low income families, we will work to improve access to and the quality of developmental services. The core of this strategy will be:

GOAL 1:

The Department has established six goals to fulfill its mission: Goal 1

In a society that is diverse in culture, language, and ethnicity, HHS manages an array of programs that aim to eliminate disparities in health status and access to health services and that increase opportunities for disadvantaged individuals to work and lead productive lives. These programs have strong foundations in basic and applied science, and

Data from the two operator instruments are displayed in the exhibits in Appendix A. Tables A-1 through A-8 summarize board and care facility characteristics by facility licensure status and size. The tables present point estimates (usually percentages) with standard errors. Additionally, we performed chi-square tests for differences between lice

Approximately 43 percent of board and care residents were prescribed and 41 percent used at least one psychotropic agent, primarily on a routinely scheduled basis. On average, residents were prescribed 0.64 (SE = 0.06) and used 0.59 (SE = 0.05) different psychotropic drugs. While some residents used no psychotropics, others use as many as six. Fiv

Abt staff members Alan White and Donna Hurd spent three days in Jefferson City and Columbia, Missouri in July 2002, meeting with state survey agency staff, ombudsman, provider association staff and members, state Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) staff, QIPMO nurses and developer Marilyn Rantz as well as facility staff who had participated in

Abt staff members Deborah Deitz and Donna Hurd accompanied by Jennie Harvell, project Task Order Officer (TOO), conducted discussions in Florida over a three-day period in September 2002, meeting with state survey agency staff, Medicaid staff and researchers, consumer advocates and provider association staff. Researchers were also able to accompan

TABLE K-1. HIE Activities for Transitions of Care

Barriers to Expansion of Telehealth . The use of telehealth has shown promise for improving patient care management, outcomes and cost, but EMHC identified challenges with the reimbursement structure coupled with high cost of the equipment create challenges for expanding the technologies use across a broader population with a large, rural geog

EMHC is an affiliate and the home care and hospice division of EMHS. In 2012, the EMHC covered nearly 1.37 million miles to make 68,323 home care, hospice, and telehealth visits to 3,300 patients. 4  Lisa Harvey-McPherson, RN, MBA, MPPM is the President and CEO of EMHC and Vice President of Continuum of Care for EMHS. During interviews, EMHS CE

Snapshot of Eastern Maine HomeCare Organization Type: Home care and hospice division of the EMHS. LTPAC Services: Home Health Care and Hospice with Telehealth.

Overview

Table I-5 describes the information exchange activities for Beechwood in three areas: (1) hand-offs in care; (2) shared care; and (3) other administrative exchange. The exchange scenarios are not limited to electronic exchange of information, but encompass any exchange workflow. The summary table provides a synopsis of the HIE activities from the