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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45. Community Health Centers and Medicaid Payment Reform: Emerging Lessons from Medicaid Expansion States.

A new report prepared by the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative examines how health centers and state Medicaid programs in a number of Medicaid expansion states are working to reform Medicaid in order to promote efficiency and quality, and more actively integrate health centers into states’ broader payment reform efforts.

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The Health Safety Net: Community Health Centers’ Vital Role

This brief describes the status of community health centers and the post-ACA environment in which they are operating.

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44. How are Migrant Health Centers and their Patients Faring Under the Affordable Care Act?.

The authors find that patients who receive care at migrant health centers located in Medicaid expansion states are increasingly likely to have Medicaid.

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43. “Puerto Rico’s Community Health Centers in a Time of Crisis”.

A new brief from the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative finds that an extraordinary need for publicly subsidized health services amidst an unprecedented economic crisis is putting Puerto Rico’s community health centers in jeopardy.

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42. How Has the Affordable Care Act Benefitted Medically Underserved Communities: National Findings from the 2014 Community Health Centers Uniform Data System.

A new brief from the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative examining newly-released data from the 2014 Uniform Data System (UDS) shows how the Affordable Care Act is changing insurance coverage and health care in the nation’s most medically underserved urban and rural communities.

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41. “Can Electronic Health Records Systems Support New Payment Methods for Health Centers”.

A new study assesses the feasibility and usefulness of combining electronic health record (EHR) information with federal cost report data as the basis for developing or evaluating reimbursement rates for community health centers.

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40. “Teaching Health Centers: A Promising Approach for Building Primary Care Workforce for the 21st Century”.

The Teaching Health Center (THC) program was started in 2011 to increase the number of primary care residents and dentists trained in community-based settings, and to fill gaps left by the current system of graduate medical education.

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39. Community Health Centers and Their Role for Patients Enrolled in the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

An analysis carried out by researchers at the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH) shows that health centers served over 350,000 CHIP beneficiaries in 2013, one in twenty-five CHIP beneficiaries that year. In certain states however, community health centers cared for anywhere from 10 to 38 percent of patients enrolled in CHIP.

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38. Using Payment Reform Strategies to Strengthen Family Planning Services at Community Health Centers.

A new report issued by the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative and the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health, based at the Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH) at the George Washington University, describes how payment reform could improve family planning services offered by the nation’s community health centers. 

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Community Health Centers: A 2012 Profile and Spotlight on Implications of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions.

Writing for the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, Community Health Centers: A 2012 Profile and Spotlight on Implications of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions provides a snapshot of community health centers prior to implementation of the Affordable care Act.