Expanding Health Care Access with DSH: Georgia's Indigent Care Trust Fund

A documentation of the Georgia Health Policy Center's review of the primary care requirement of Georgia's Indigent Care Trust Fund (ICTF) - Georgia's mechanism for administering federal disproportionate share hospital dollars

Avoidable Hospitalizations

Georgia Health Policy Center worked to improve health care in eight of the most rural, medically under served states in the country. The Center conducted research and provided strategic planning for eight Southern states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, East Texas and West Virginia

An Assessment of Health Care Safety Net Services in Seven Metropolitan Atlanta Counties

The Georgia Health Policy Center (GHPC), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Network of Public Health Institutes began collaboration in the summer of 2007 on a project designed to establish a framework for public health to help inform the health reform debate. The partnership set out to broaden the health reform conversation to include health promotion, health improvement, and disease prevention. The effort included background research, focus groups, key interviews with internal and external stakeholders from local, state, and national groups, and additional convenings of local, state, and national partners. This report highlights opportunities for public health to bridge the different levels of health reform and create strategies and policies that could be implemented on each level

Whether Health Departments Should Provide Clinical Services After the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act

I have described a decision support tool that may facilitate local decisions regarding the provision and billing of clinical services. I created a 2 by 2 matrix of health professional shortage and Medicaid expansion availability as of July 2015. I found that health departments in 93% of US counties may still need to provide clinical services despite the institution of the Affordable Care Act. Local context and market conditions should guide health departments’ decision to act as safety net providers

Pilot Planning Grant

Report summarizing key findings of focus groups assessing Georgians' attitudes and opinions regarding the development of a plan for providing affordable insurance coverage statewide

Medicaid and PeachCare for Kids: Customer Service Satisfaction Survey - Members

An analysis to determine if national findings applied to the health care experiences of Georgia foster children in comparison to other Medicaid children

Health Care for the Uninsured in Metro Atlanta

What is the state of metro Atlanta's health care safety net

Center Presents on Long-Term Care at Conference on the Impact of Aging on Georgia

A Community-Campus Partnerships for Health peer-reviewed article on the power of strategic alignment in health policy

Georgia Aging and Disability Resource Center Connection Expansion Evaluation

The unprecedented aging of the population will have a dramatic impact on Georgia's long-term care system. In Georgia, where the elderly population is anticipated to increase at a rate above the national average, the number of elderly people is expected to rise 143% by 2030, compared with 104% nationally. For a recent conference on the Aging Population in Georgia, the Georgia Health Policy Center identified delivering and staffing long-term care services as priorities that state and local governments should begin to address immediately