Access HealthColumbus
Assuring access to healthcare for vulnerable people in Franklin County
News - Projects
Please click here for overview of current projects |
PLEASE CLICK ON PROJECT Name TO ViEW A SUMMARY
Our Incremental Projects
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Our Fundamental Projects |
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| Voluntary Care Network | Establishing a Coordinated Medical Home Network in Franklin County |
| Primary Care Capacity Building | |
| Employed Latino Health Initiative | |
| Our Optimal Health | |
Projects |
Purpose |
Learning/information |
| Voluntary Care Network | Coordinating volunteers from our local health care community (doctors, hospitals, and their staff) to help vulnerable people improve their health. |
Care Coordination Outcomes Report - August 2007 (pdf) |
| Primary Care Capacity Building | Expand capacity (supply) of affordable primary care services through investments and efficiency improvements. |
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| Improving Access to Affordable Prescription Drugs | Coordinating local efforts to increase access to affordable prescription drugs. | federal 340B prescription drug program (pdf) |
| Health Care Safety-Net “MONITOR” | Coordinating a "dashboard" of heath care safety-net utilization information – refreshed every six months. |
May 2008 Health Care Safety-Net Monitor (pdf - large file) |
| Franklin County Covering Kids & Families Coalition | Hosting collaborative effort to find, enroll, and retain more of the uninsured children and families who are eligible for but not yet enrolled in Ohio’s Medicaid and public health coverage. |
information available soon |
| Establishing a Coordinated Medical Home Network in Franklin County | Coordinating efforts to inform the community on the cost and value of establishing sustainable capacity (supply) of coordinated medical home services to support the health needs (demand) for vulnerable people. |
Preliminary Feasibility Study Overview Coordinated Medical Home Network - Preliminary Feasibility Study (2 MB) - appendix: Key Informant Interview Protocol - appendix: Key Informant Interview Note - appendix: Demand and Cost Estimates (5 MB) June 24th Medical Home Presentation (2 MB) June 24th Discussion Participants
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| Increase Adoption of Health Information Exchange to Impact Health Care Disparities in Support of Medical Homes | Coordinating a learning lab to advance the adoption of electronic health records in safety-net primary care. | information available soon |
Coordinating a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to work with employers on identifying and piloting models to improve the health of employed Latinos.
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Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes 3/13/2008 Advisory Committee Discussion Notes 3/13/2008 Questions for Latino Focus Groups Questions for Employer Learning Sessions |
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| Our Optimal Health | The project is hosting community dialogue to explore new approaches for ensuring affordable & sustainable health care for ALL people in Franklin County. [note: this project is led by a group of volunteers. Access HealthColumbus leadership participates and is the fiscal intermediary] | Please click here to visit the Our Optimal Health website |
