Comparison of nurse managed health centers with federally qualified health centers as safety net providers.
Policy Polit Nurs Pract
; 12(2): 90-9, 2011 May.
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Nurse Managed Health Centers (NMHCs) provide a critical safety net function in their communities, yet they often remain invisible and challenged in terms of financial sustainability. This paper presents a comparison of demographics and financial status of NMHCs and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). The comparison is based on four years of annual NMHC national survey data that includes 42 NMHCs overall and the 2008 FQHC data in the Uniform Data System. Findings indicate that NMHCs and FQHCs serve very similar diverse populations yet funding and revenue differences were significant. NMHCs tend to rely more on grants and donations from the private sector as well as contracts while FQHCs have access to considerable federal support that is cost based when serving the underserved. In addition, NMHCs are challenged by the array of state, federal and third party insurers' regulations that often disadvantage nurse practitioners as primary care providers.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Centros Comunitarios de Salud
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Enfermeras Administradoras
Límite:
Humans
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Policy Polit Nurs Pract
Asunto de la revista:
ENFERMAGEM
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SAUDE PUBLICA
Año:
2011
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos
Pais de publicación:
Estados Unidos