Sentences with phrase «access to a primary care provider»

On the other hand, preliminary studies have found that medical home initiatives — where patients have access to a primary care provider who can help prevent exacerbations of chronic illnesses that might otherwise lead to acute crisis — are effective in reducing ED use among Medicaid patients.

A 2011 Center for Disease Control (CDC) survey showed that 80 percent of adults discharged from the ER - meaning those who could be treated and were sent home - said they sought care at the ER due to lack of access to a primary care provider.

A significant number of women also lost or had reduced access to primary care providers as a consequence of limiting patient options.

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If or when the Aetna acquisition closes, a major organization with strong payer attributes will own a retail provider network that is less expensive and easier to access than traditional primary care providers.

These included distribution of health workers, specialist outreach clinics, lay health workers, and training of traditional birth attendants to reduce inequalities; lay health workers and training of traditional birth attendants to increase participation in health by consumers; contracting out of health services, integrating primary healthcare services, reminders and recall for immunisation; working with for - profit providers to increase the effectiveness of care; subcontracting the delivery of health services, integrating primary healthcare services, addressing the distribution of health workers, specialist outreach clinics, substitution of doctors by nurses, lay health workers, and training of traditional birth attendants to increase coverage or access; and outpatient referrals to improve the coordination of care.

This directive will build upon additional measures to expedite referrals and treatment, including expansion of Project TEACH to connect primary care providers with mental health specialists, enhanced screening and referrals at WIC clinics and increased access to telepsychiatry for those in rural communities.

So we will strengthen commissioning, give more responsibility to primary care professionals and open up primary care: with more providers, new primary care services, and more weekend and evening access.

The association between higher Medicaid reimbursements for office visits and increased likelihood of receiving cancer screenings may reflect barriers in access to primary care physicians and other providers for Medicaid enrollees in states with lower reimbursements.

Other factors that also affect admission and attendances at emergency departments are: how easy it is for patients to access GP surgeries and primary care providers; the distance the patients live away from the emergency department; and the number of confusing options patients had for accessing emergency care.

Open Access means that plan members don't need to pre-select a dental care provider (also known as «primary care dentist») and can switch providers as many times as they choose to do so.

Misuse of hospitals for non-emergency or preventable conditions is often a symptom of not having access to outpatient care and primary care doctors, either because of lack of insurance or lack of providers.

If you are a primary care provider wishing to access these trainings, visit the EDOPC website to register.

The usual care condition was enhanced by providing primary care clinicians with training and educational materials (manuals, pocket cards) on depression evaluation and treatment.43 Patients receiving usual care had access to usual treatment at the site but not to the specific mental health providers trained in the CBT and care management services used in the study.

Another model of a successful collaboration program between primary providers and child psychiatrists, the Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project, promotes access to psychiatric consultation for primary care providers through a network of children's mental health collaboration Access Project, promotes access to psychiatric consultation for primary care providers through a network of children's mental health collaboration access to psychiatric consultation for primary care providers through a network of children's mental health collaboration teams.