The Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative has produced studies and analyses across a broad range of issues:
Primary and Preventive Healthcare: A Critical Path to Healthcare Reform for Florida
Despite their importance to the Florida’s overall health care system funding shortfalls have limited their ability to reach the state’s residents without a regular source of health care. Between 1996-2006, when the number of uninsured residents grew by 32 percent, the number of uninsured patients served by community health centers grew by 51 percent.
This report represents a “second wave” follow-up to a “first wave” study whose purpose was to measure the effects of the Deficit Reduction Act’s citizenship documentation requirements on health centers and their patients.
The GG/ RCHN CHF Research Collaborative’s latest research brief examines comments from health centers and concerned parties across the country on the proposed rule to narrow the federal definition of medical underservice.
The study finds that community health centers out-perform other primary care providers in the use of key preventive care services by both Medicaid and uninsured patients.
The Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative today released a new research brief entitled “Grantee-Level Estimates Show that 31 Percent of All Health Centers would Fail to Meet Tier Two Status under HRSA’s Proposed MUA/MUP/HPSA Designation Regulations.”
The Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative has released a new research brief entitled “Analysis of the Proposed Rule on Designation of Medically Underserved Populations and Health Professional Shortage Areas.”
1. How Does Investment in Community Health Centers Affect the Economy?
The economic slowdown has prompted policymakers to focus on investments that can produce rapid economic gains in communities.
Health Centers: An Overview and Analysis of their Experiences with Private Health Insurance
This policy brief provides an overview of health centers, with a special focus on the relationship between health centers and private health insurance.
Laying the Foundation: Health System Reform in New York State and the Primary Care Imperative
Following a description of the health reform initiatives underway in NYS, the authors identify a series of major barriers that impede the development and operation of a well functioning primary care system.
Health Centers Reauthorization: An Overview of Achievements and Challenges
This report reviews the role of community health centers (CHCs) in the nation's health care safety net, and the policy changes faced by CHCs as they look toward legislative reauthorization in 2006, including an increase in the uninsured populations, potential decreases in Medicaid revenue, and a need to increase health centers' workforce.
