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Section 1311(i) of the ACA requires that each exchange develop a grant program to fund patient navigators and patient navigator programs that facilitate education and enrollment in qualified health plans. [citation needed] There are two primary funding sources for in-person outreach, education, and assistance for enrolling in exchange health plans.
For more information about the program, email navigator@lickingcohealth.org or call 740-349-6535. Advocate reporter Josué Perez can be reached at jhperez@newarkadvocate.com .
The community health center (CHC) in the United States is the dominant model for providing integrated primary care and public health services for the low-income and uninsured, and represents one use of federal grant funding as part of the country's health care safety net. The health care safety net can be defined as a group of health centers ...
In 1965, CHAP was the first to recognize the need and value for accreditation in community-based care. The organization was created as a joint venture between the American Public Health Association and the National League for Nursing (NLN). CHAP became a separately incorporated, non-profit subsidiary of the NLN in 1988, under the CHAP name.
The U.S. Small Business Administration's Community Navigator Pilot Program gives selected community navigators an opportunity to connect underserved business owners to resources such as financial ...
Community health volunteers are members of a local community who have experience and training on the health problems prevalent in their community and care services available, in order to identify and link those in need with local providers. Community health volunteers may be referred to by different titles depending on their local health system ...
Policy for population health "sets priorities" [2] and are a "guide to action to change what would otherwise occur". [2] Policies are based on "social sciences of sociology, economics, demography, public health, anthropology, and epidemiology" [4] and determine how outcomes can be accomplished are implemented at various levels. Such guides ...
Muntu Davis is the Los Angeles County Public Health Officer. Jeffrey Gunzenhauser is the Interim Health Officer and Medical Director for Los Angeles County. With a budget of 893 million dollars, Public Health has 39 programs and 14 public health centers to serve 10 million LA County residents. [2]