One year after hurricanes Maria and Irma struck Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), recovery of essential community health care has progressed, but remains incomplete and challenging.
Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative Policy Briefs
The Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative has produced studies and analyses across a broad range of issues:
- National health reform and medically underserved communities.
- Community health centers as public health first responders.
- Community health centers’ special roles for key patient populations, including veterans, agricultural workers and their families, those experiencing homelessness, as well as opportunities to improve population health.
- Community health centers’ role in the health of women and families.
- Efforts to roll back Medicaid gains for health center patients and medically underserved populations.
- The impact of policies on immigrant communities served by health centers.
- Health centers and delivery and payment reform.
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Community Health Centers’ Experiences in a More Mature ACA Market.
Community health centers provide comprehensive primary care services in some of the most underserved communities in the nation.
In a recent decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Legacy Community Health Services v. Smith held that state Medicaid programs may refuse to pay community health centers for the non-emergency, out-of-network care they furnish to Medicaid managed care enrollees.
A new report by the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, based on a comprehensive survey, finds that six months after Hurricanes Irma and Maria pummeled Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), the regions’ twenty-three community health centers continue to play a crucial role in responding to the catastrophe, providing direct care and essential community-based public health services.
51. State Economic and Employment Losses If Community Health Center Funding Is Not Restored.
A new report by the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative addresses the state-level economic and employment consequences that could occur if the Community Health Center Fund, which expired on September 30, 2017, is not restored.
50. Puerto Rico’s Community Health Centers: Struggling to Recover in the Wake of Hurricane Maria.
A new report by the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative details how Puerto Rico’s health centers, which serve one in 10 residents, are helping to address urgent and emerging health care needs, at a time when communication is limited and access to electricity and clean water remains scarce.
49. What are the Possible Effects of Failing to Extend the Community Health Center Fund?.
A new report by the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative analyzes the potential risk to health centers and the communities they serve if Congress fails to renew the Community Health Center Fund, which is due to expire on September 30.
48. Community Health Centers Reduce the Costs of Children’s Health Care.
A new report by the Geiger Gibson/ RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative is the first to show that community health centers (CHCs) provide care for children at a significant savings.
A new report by the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative is the first to look at the economic impact on health centers of major changes in federal programs that fund health care for low-income and medically underserved people.
A new report by the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative finds that repeal of key provisions of the Affordable Care Act, combined with a failure to renew critical funding streams, would result in catastrophic funding losses for community health centers– forcing these safety net providers to cut back on services, lay off staff or shut down clinical sites.