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1 online resource |
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Free clinics stand as a pillar of the health care safety net : findings from a narrative literature review / Emily Rose Schiller, Michelle Ann Thurston, Zubair Khan, and Michael D. Fetters -- Psychiatric street outreach to homeless people : fostering relationship, reconnection, and recovery / Richard C. Christensen -- Nurse practitioners in community health settings today / Lois A. Wessel -- Following the call : how providers make sense of their decisions to work in faith-based and secular urban community health centers / Farr A. Curlin, Karen D. Serrano, Matthew G. Baker, Sarah L. Carricaburu, Douglas R. Smucker, and Marshall H. Chin -- The Jane Dent Home : the rise and fall of homes for the aged in law-income communities / Susan G. Pfefferle, Ben Cooper, Debbie Layton, and Sharon Rohrbach -- Neighborhood clinics : an academic medical center-community health center partnership / Mina Siberberg, Kimberly S.H. Yarnall, Fred Johnson, Devdutta Sangvai, Rupal Patel, and Susan D. Yaggy -- Free Clinics helping to patch the safety net / Stephanie Geller, Buck M. Taylor, and H. Denman Scott -- Impact of providing a medical home to the uninsured : evaluation of a statewide program / James M. Gill, Heather Bittner Fagan, Bryan Townsend, and Arch G. Mainous, III -- Characteristics of patients at three free clinics / Rachel Mott-Keis, Linda Gifford DeGeus, Suzanne Cashman, and Judith Savageau -- Donated care programs : a stopgap measure or a long-run alternative to health insurance? / Jeffrey T. Kullgren, Erin Fries Taylor, and Catherine G. McLaughlin -- Missed appointment rates in primary care : the importance of site of care / Karen E. Lasser, Ira L. Mintzer, Astrid Lambert, Howard Cabral, and David H. Bor -- Free clinics and the uninsured : the increasing demands of chronic illness / Mohan M. Nadkarni and John T. Philbrick -- Missed opportunities for patient education and social worker consultation at the arbor free clinic / Marie Soller and Lars Osterberg -- Adapting the chronic care model to treat chronic illness at a free medical clinic / Robert J. Stroebel, Bonnie Gloor, Sue Freytag, Douglas Riegert-Johnson, Steven A. Smith, Todd Huschka, Jim Naessens, and Thomas E. Kottke -- Medical respite care for homeless people : a growing national phenomenon / Suzanne Zerger, Bruce Doblin, and Lisa Thompson -- Balancing service and education : ethical management of student-run clinics / David Buchanan and Renee Witlen -- Quality of diabetes care at a student-run free clinic / Kira L. Ryskina, Yasmin S. Meah, and David C. Thomas -- Students who participate in a student-run free health clinic need education about access to care issues / B. Brent Simmons, Daniel Dejoseph, James Diamond, and Lara Weinstein -- The UCSD student-run free clinic project : transdisciplinary health professional education / Ellen Beck -- Charlottesville health access : a locality-based model of health care navigation for the homeless / Steven E. Bishop, James M. Edwards, and Mohan M. Nadkarni -- UCLA mobile clinic project / Joseph Hastings, Donna Zulman, and Soma Wali -- The promise clinic : a service-learning approach to increasing access to health care / Manuel Jimenez, Jennifer Tan, John Babineau, Jennifer Jimenez, Todd Billet, Charlene Flash, Steven J. Levin, Bernadette West, and Alfred F. Tallia -- Engaging student health organizations in reducing health disparities in underserved communities through volunteerism : developing a student health corps / Vickie M. Mays, Lichin Ly, Erica Allen, and Sophia Young -- HealthSTAT : a student approach to building skills needed to serve poor communities / Carmen Patrick and Arun Mohan |
| Summary |
Free clinics and student-run clinics are an essential part of America's health care safety net. In community after community, pro bono and student-run health clinics have sprung up over the past 30 years, providing critically needed care to medically underserved populations. This work is a mosaic formed by accounts of such clinics around the United States. These wide-ranging narratives - from urban to rural, from primary care to behavioral health care - provide examples that will assist other communities seeking to find the model that best fits their needs. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has improved access to health care for many Americans, but millions remain (and will remain) uninsured or underinsured. Free clinics provide non-emergency care to those in need. Nationwide, professionals can be found offering volunteer services at these clinics. Contributors to this volume - typically people with personal familiarity (as clinicians or area residents) with the clinics they write about - cover a variety of topics, including a review of the literature, data-driven accounts of clinic usage, and ethical guidelines for student-run clinics. They describe the motivations of clinic staff, the day-to-day work of a family nurse practitioner working in clinics and teaching at a university, the challenges and rewards of providing health care for homeless people, and more. Student-run clinics are the topic of the second section: in addition to providing care to a small subset of those in need, student-run clinics are an important venue for training future clinicians and helping the seeds of altruism with which many enter their professions to germinate. This book will be of interest to policymakers, students and faculty in public health and health policy programs, and clinicians and students who are embarking on launching new clinics |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Medically uninsured persons -- Medical care -- United States
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Charities, Medical -- United States
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Medically uninsured persons.
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Charities, Medical.
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Medically Uninsured
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Medical Indigency
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Uncompensated Care
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Medically uninsured persons
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Charities, Medical
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Medically uninsured persons -- Medical care
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United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brennan, Virginia M.
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| ISBN |
1421408856 |
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9781421408859 |
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