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August 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Safety-net organizations, which provide health services to uninsured and low-income people, increasingly are looking for ways to coordinate services among providers to improve access to quality of care and to reduce costs. In this analysis, a part o ...
August 1, 2012 | Book
The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World examines how national health care reform will impact safety-net programs that serve low-income and uninsured patients. The "safety net" refers to the collection of hospitals, clinics, and doctors who ...
January 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
Study looks at how federal stimulus funding, among other factors, has helped safety net providers weather the economic storm, partially offsetting reductions in state, local and private funding.
May 1, 2011 | Journal Article
For millions of elderly Americans, Social Security has eliminated the burden of poverty and improved their health.
May 14, 2008 | Journal Article
Quality of care improvement programs, such as bonuses for top-performing hospitals, could end up penalizing safety-net hospitals and aggravating existing disparities between safety-net and wealthy hospitals. This longitudinal study examined changes in disparities in care quality over time at safety-net and nonsafety-net hospitals.
February 6, 2009 | Program Result
Researchers with the Safety Net Assessment Project examined how individual- and community-level factors influence access to health care for low-income residents, and why their access varies in different metropolitan regions of the U.S.
March 14, 2013 | Issue Brief
A significant number of low-income uninsured adults may be excluded from the Medicaid expansion due to their immigration status after the Affordable Care Act takes effect.
October 7, 2011 | Story
A Profile of Glenn A. Melnick, PhD.
March 1, 2004 | Journal Article
This study examines the effect of community factors and individual factors on access to ambulatory care for low income adults in 54 metropolitan areas across the United States. Two indicators were used to measure access: (1) having a usual source of ...
October 21, 2009 | News Release
Three years into implementation, docs rate state's health care system positively.