How Western Kentucky leveraged Medicaid expansion to increase access to health care
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Case study (Commonwealth fund)
- Author(s):
- Klein, Sarah, author Hostetter, Martha, author McCarthy, Douglas, author
- Contributor(s):
- Commonwealth Fund, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : Commonwealth Fund, July 2017
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Health Services Accessibility -- statistics & numerical data Medicaid -- statistics & numerical data Quality Indicators, Health Care -- statistics & numerical data Quality of Health Care -- statistics & numerical data Community Health Centers -- statistics & numerical data Hospitalization -- statistics & numerical data Mortality Preventive Health Services -- statistics & numerical data Humans Kentucky United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- The hospital referral region encompassing Paducah and its neighboring counties, most in rural Western Kentucky, distinguished itself as one of only a handful of U.S. regions to improve on a majority of measures tracked by the Commonwealth Fund's Scorecard on Local Health System Performance, 2016 Edition. The most striking gains were tied to the state's Medicaid expansion, which added nearly 500,000 low-income adults to the program. Local leaders who were concerned about lack of access to care relied on the expansion to recruit federally qualified health centers to the region, while hospitals and other providers enhanced access through school-based clinics, which offer urgent and behavioral health services.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (10 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101712694 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101712694