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.
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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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.
This analysis, prepared for The California Endowment, examines how other states have addressed issues that arise in designing, implementing and overseeing compulsory managed care systems for persons with disabilities and serious and chronic health conditions.