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Monitoring
the Health Care Safety Net
A Series of
Three Free Web-assisted Audio Conference Calls for State and Local Officials
NARRATIVE
AGENDA
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#1: |
 Data
Books for Monitoring the Safety Net
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| Date
and Time: |
September 23,
2003, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., EDT
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| Panelists:
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 Robin
M. Weinick, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist/Senior Advisor on Safety Nets and Low-
Income Populations
Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
U. S. Department of Health and Human Services
Rockville, MD
John Billings,
J.D.
Director, Center for Health and Public Service Research
Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service
New York University
New York, NY
Robert Seifert,
M.P.A
Senior Policy Analyst
The Access Project
Brandeis University
Boston, MA
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| Content:
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One of the challenges
in monitoring the Nation's health care safety net is that safety
net services are provided in a myriad of different configurations,
largely at the local level. As a result, the Data Books include
information at the county and metropolitan levels, focusing on 30
States and the District of Columbia. Together, these areas cover
75 percent of the U.S. population. The Data Books use data from
a wide variety of sources to describe the status of the safety net
in 90 metropolitan areas and 1,818 counties in these States.
After this audio conference, participants will be able to understand
the broad range of measures included in the Data Books and how to
utilize them for monitoring the status of local safety nets and
the populations they serve, including:
- Demand
for safety net services. Measures include the size of the
uninsured population and the percent of the population living
below the Federal poverty line.
- Financial
support for safety net services. Measures include the extent
of Medicaid coverage, Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments,
and Community Health Center grants.
- Structure
of the safety net. Measures include the types of hospitals
in each local area by ownership and teaching status and the market
concentration of uncompensated and Medicaid hospital discharges.
- Health
care delivery system. Measures include managed care penetration
rates, number of doctors per capita, and number of emergency department
visits per capita.
- Community
context. Measures include racial/ethnic composition, unemployment
and crime rates, and levels of education.
- Outcomes
and Performance Measures. Measures include inpatient hospitalizations
that could have been prevented with better ambulatory care; prenatal
care and low birthweight and preterm births; and the percent of
the low-income population with no usual source of health care.
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| Event
#2: |
Safety
Net Data Collection Strategies
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| Date
and Time: |
September 24,
2003, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m., EDT
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| Panelists:
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Lynn
Blewett, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Public Health
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
Joel Cantor,
Sc.D.
Director
Center for State Health Policy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ
Timothy L.
Clouse, M.A.
Agricultural Economist/Statistician
Centers for Epidemiology and Animal Health
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Ft. Collins, CO
Vickie S. Gates
Senior Consultant
State Coverage Initiatives program
Portland, OR
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| Content:
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The Safety Net
Tool Kit is designed to help policy analysts and planners at the
State and local levels assess the performance and needs of their
local safety nets. This publication consists of a series of papers
from experts in the field covering a wide variety of topics related
to monitoring the safety net. This webcast will highlight papers
looking at innovative data collection strategies and provide guidance
on how to use them.
After this
audio conference, participants will be able to:
- Understand
methods for estimating the size of the uninsured population in
local areas;
- Understand
how to conduct local health access surveys appropriately and use
them to guide decision-making processes;
- Determine
the financial health of outpatient safety net providers; and
- Discuss how
the new data collection can inform policymakers as they develop
new strategies to enhance access for vulnerable populations.
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| Event
#3: |
Using
Data to Tell the Safety Net Story
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| Date
and Time: |
September 25,
2003, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m., EDT
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| Panelists:
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John
Billings, J.D.
Director, Center for Health and Public Service Research
Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service
New York University
New York, NY
W. Pete Bailey,
M.P.H.
Chief, Health and Demographics
Office of Research and Statistics
South Carolina Budget and Control Board
Columbia, SC
Andrew Bazemore,
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Family Medicine
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH
Christine Shannon,
R.D., M.S.
Administrator, Planning and Research Services
Office of Health Planning and Medicaid
New Hampshire Department of Health and Human
Services
Concord, NH
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| Content:
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This audio
conference will examine three other topics covered in the Safety
Net Tool Kit. The speakers will highlight ways in which data about
the safety net can be used to help understand the status of the
safety net and to inform policy decisions.
After this audio
conference, participants will be able to:
- Understand
the power of geographic information systems (GIS) as a tool for
understanding and making decision about the safety net;
- Understand
the power of State integrated data systems and important principles
to guide their development; and
- Use two software
tools based on administrative data to understand access to care
and assess the performance of the safety net.
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