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- Alameda County
- Home to over 1.3 million people, Alameda County, California encompass a land area of 738 square miles on the east side of San Francisco Bay. Alameda County has been a leader in smart energy strategies for years. The Santa Rita Jail is the largest energy user of all the Alameda...
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- Governance for Whom and for What: Principles to Guide Health Policy in Miami-Dade County
- In Miami-Dade County, Florida, health care for the medically uninsured is provided primarily by the county-run system, the Public Health Trust (PHT), which operates a number of facilities, including the prestigious Jackson Memorial Hospital (JMH) and a network of primary-care clinics. This centralized system has led to uninsured patients having...
- White papers 2003-06-06
- Managing Psychiatric Disability In The New Millennium
- The article presents a coordinated approach to behavioral health. Cutting behavioral should recognize mental health disability health benefit costs, which are often added to the problem by delaying or denying necessary treatment. Diminished behavioral health treatment quality can take the form of severely depressed patients being diverted from hospitals and...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The CIGNA Behavioral Enhanced Model Optimizes Performance
- Health conditions, whether medical or behavioral, often interfere with an employee's work life. When it comes to behavioral health issues that impact your workforce, such as depression or stress, an integrated health care model is indispensable. The capacity for this model to detect health care issues at the earliest stage...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- The Muskegon Access Health "Three-Share" Plan: A Case History
- Access Health is known as a "three-share plan": Employers and employees each pay 30 percent of the cost of the program, and the community pays the remainder. Access Health is a unique health plan that covers a comprehensive array of health care services, but with exclusions. Inpatient and outpatient services...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Smart Energy Strategies Integrating Solar Electric Generation and Energy Efficiency
- In Spring 2002, Alameda County successfully completed the fourth largest solar electric system in the world atop the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, California. The Santa Rita Jail is the largest energy user of Alameda County's government buildings. This solar installation, the nation's largest rooftop system, was commissioned to help...
- Case studies
- Drug and Alcohol Treatment Services Among Privately Insured Individuals in Managed Behavioral Health Care
- Drug and alcohol problems are a significant public health issue, affecting millions of Americans. Many of these individuals are privately insured. Private insurance coverage for substance abuse (SA) disorders has improved recently, but coverage for SA disorders remains more restricted than for other behavioral health disorders. Behavioral health benefit management...
- White papers 2003-02-20
- Big or Small, EHRs Benefit All
- The diversity of behavioral health organizations is one of the primary difficulties involved in successful Electronic Health Record (EHR) implementation. Because behavioral health services are more dependent on human resources than physical infrastructure, perhaps more variations in size and configuration exist in behavioral healthcare than in any other healthcare specialty....
- White papers 2005-11-01
- Depression in Primary Care: Bringing Behavioral Health Care Into the Mainstream
- The incentives, value, and leadership components evaluate and implement strategies for financing and sustaining use of clinical best practices despite barriers created by economic and organizational structures that fragment behavioral and general health care. The paper outlines that a challenge for policymakers is how to link depression care with the...
- White papers 2005-02-01
- Tracking Changes in Behavioral Health Services How Has Managed Care Changed Care?
- The system for providing treatment for mental health and substance abuse has changed so quickly and dramatically that research about its effects has not been able to keep up. There are few empirical studies about how managed care affects access, quality, outcomes, and costs of mental health and substance abuse...
- White papers
- Behavioral Economics and Health Economics
- The health sector is filled with institutions and decision-making circumstances that create friction in markets and cognitive errors by decision makers. This paper examines the potential contributions to health economics of the ideas of behavioral economics. The discussion presented here focuses on the economics of doctor-patient interactions and some aspects...
- White papers 2004-10-01
- Spending for Specialized Mental Health Treatment in the VA: 1995-2001
- The department of veterans affairs (VA) provides health care to more than four million veterans annually. As the nation's largest provider of behavioral health services, the VA helps to define standards of care for U.S. mental health treatment. The shift from inpatient to outpatient care was accompanied by rapid increases...
- White papers 2004-03-11
- Does Medicaid Managed Care Affect Access to Care for the Uninsured?
- This study investigates whether the implementation of Medicaid managed care from 1994 to 2001 was associated with changes in access to care for the uninsured. It uses regression analysis to examine relationships between changes in county-level Medicaid managed care activity over time and changes in four measures of perceived access...
- White papers 2005-08-01
- Health Care Consumerism: Buzz Phrase or Effective Strategy?
- Health care consumerism is a relatively new term that you're likely to encounter more and more as you read about rising health care costs. In general, consumerism refers to the effect a consumer's choices have on a specific industry by way of the industry's reaction to those choices. Health care...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- Health and Human Services, York County, Virginia
- As York County, Virginia, officials planned their new Health and Human Services (HHS) building; they wanted to achieve a number of goals besides providing office space for the medical, dental, and administrative staff. A 100-ton GeoExchange system was fundamental to reducing operating costs, maintenance, and the amount of space devoted...
- Case studies
- Universal Health Care for Children: Two Local Initiatives
- Over the past decade, expansions under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) have brought a significant infusion of federal dollars into state and county health systems and have produced a variety of state-level programs. The article begins by describing these two county-level programs and comparing the approach...
- White papers 2003-04-21
- Medical Director, Public Health
- The Medical Director, Public Health job description template includes the following job summary: Responsible for the entire scope of the public health program in the county. Works under the direction of the Commissioner of Health, Deputy Commissioner for Professional Services, Associate Commissioner for Community and Rural Health, and under the...
- Tools & templates 2007-09-09
- Indian Health Service: Health Care Services Are Not Always Available to Native Americans
- The Indian Health Service (IHS), located within the Department of Health and Human Services, is responsible for arranging health care services for Native Americans (American Indians and Alaska Natives). IHS services include primary care (medical, dental, and vision); ancillary services, such as laboratory and pharmacy; and specialty care, including services...
- White papers 2005-08-01
- Does Health Insurance Impede Trade in Health Care Services?
- There is limited trade in health services despite big differences in the price of health care across countries. Whether patients travel abroad for health care depends on the coverage of treatments by their health insurance plan. Under existing health insurance contracts, the gains from trade are not fully internalized by...
- White papers 2005-07-01
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