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About 2 million children became uninsured in 2008, despite their ongoing eligibility for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), according to a new report from the Harvard School of Public Health, Enrolling Eligible Children In Medicaid And CHIP: A Research Update.
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A growing number of states are implementing policies to deny or reduce payments for hospital-acquired conditions or potentially preventable readmissions. Exactly how much does this save?
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Covering childless adults could be more costly than anticipated, because this population had more complex needs than expected, according to some states surveyed in a July 2010 report from the Washington, DC-based Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, Expanding Medicaid to Low-Income Childless Adults Under Health Reform: Key Lessons from State Experiences.
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Vermont is looking to take an innovative Medicare waiver approach to advance integration of care for dual-eligibles one that has never been done anywhere in the country.
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Louisiana's Money Follows the Person (MFP) Rebalancing Demonstration focuses on three important areas for measuring results and benefits of the program. These are long-term stay in community living, quality of life measures, and fiscal measures.
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A set of guidelines for changing hospital visitation policies and practices released in August 2010 by the Bethesda, MD-based Institute for Patient-and Family-Centered Care (IPFCC) will help health care institutions meet standards for patient-centered communication issued by The Joint Commission and set to take effect in January 2011, says Joanna Kaufman, RN, MS, an information specialist with IPFCC.
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Patient education managers faithfully assess written materials to make sure they are appropriate for people with low health literacy or poor reading skills. They must be just as diligent when selecting websites for educational purposes, says Abigail Jones, MLIS, MA, consumer health librarian at the Library for Health Information in the Atrium at The Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus.
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As a consumer health librarian at The Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus, Abigail Jones, MLIS, MS, has become skilled at selecting websites that provide appropriate information for patients and families who may not read well or have low health literacy.
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It is no surprise that patients have trouble understanding what health care professionals tell them when you consider that 29% of the population has basic literacy skills and 14% of the population has below basic literacy skills. Another 5% of Americans are not English-literate. This means half the adults in the United States have trouble using written documents to accomplish everyday tasks, according to a report on health literacy from The Joint Commission.
