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APHA Scientific Session and Event Listing

Recorded presentation

Michael K. Dexter, MPA, Rhode Island Department of Health, 3 Capitol Hill, Providence, RI 02908, (401) 222-5122, michael.dexter@health.ri.gov

Certificate of Need (CON) and licensure standards are two powerful tools that state health departments use to improve access to health care services and improve the quality of care delivered at health care facilities.

This session will present specific case examples of how the CON program in Rhode Island enhanced access to health care services to the inhabitants of Rhode Island. The session will also highlight specific examples of how certain tertiary health care services were regulated through the development and promulgation of licensure standards in order to better ensure a quality delivery of health care services.

Learning Objectives:

• Attendees should better understand the impact that CON and licensure standards have in the delivery of health care services.
• Attendees will learn tested volume to quality relationships in certain tertiary care services.
• Attendees will learn how CON impacts access to health care to underserved populations or those populations with recognized health disparities.

Keywords: Certificate of Need, Regulations

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No

Recorded presentation