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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA |
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4134.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| This session will examine issues relating to the support of the healthcare safety net. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to 1. Understand the challenges health care institutions face in desseminating accurate and complete information to large groups of people via call centers 2. Describe the effects of the recent economic downturn on the financial situation of safety net hospitals and on their clients. 3. Create awareness of the potential of rural hospital and rural community health center collaboration. 4. Gain knowledge concerning an online database of community health worker (CHW) programs and their evaluation. | |||
| Michael T. Hatcher, DrPH, CHES | |||
| MEDICARE: Accuracy of Responses from the 1-800-MEDICARE Help Line Should be Improved Shaunessye Curry, MA, Sheila Avruch, Joy Kraybill, Krister Friday, Mary Reich, Esq, Sari Shuman, Ramsey Asaly, Alexis Chaudron, Perry Parsons, Leslie Spangler | |||
| Stresses to the safety net: The public hospital perspective Marsha Regenstein, PhD, Jennifer Huang, MS | |||
| National survey of critical access hospital and rural community health center collaboration Sudha Xirasagar, PhD, Michael E. Samuels, DrPH | |||
| A national database of community health worker programs and their evaluation methodologies Agnes W. Hinton, DrPH, RD, Paul W. Philpot, MS | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Health Administration | ||
| Endorsed by: | Gerontological Health; Medical Care | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA