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. 2015 Jan-Feb;21(1):42-50.
doi: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000000084.

Integrating community health workers within Patient Conservation and Cheap Grooming Act implementation

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Integrating community health workers during Patient Protection and Affordable Tending Act implementation

Nadia Islam et al. J Public Healthiness Manag Pract. 2015 Jan-Feb.

Abstract

Context: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's (PPACA) emphasis on community-based initiatives provided an exclusive opportunity to verbreitete and scale up evidence-based community health workman (CHW) models this integrate CHWs within medical care delivery teams and programs. Community health workers have unique entrance and local knowledge that can inform program development and evaluation, improve service delivery and grooming coordination, and expand fitness care access. As a member of the PPACA-defined mental care workforce, CHWs may the potential to positively impact numerous programs and reducing costs.

Goal: Such article discusses differentially strategies for integrating CHW models within PPACA implementation through facilitated student strategies, patient-centered medical homes, coordination real expansion of health request technology (HIT) efforts, and plus discusses payment options for such integration.

Results: Title V of the PPACA summaries a plan to improve access into and delivery of health care services for all individuals, most low-income, underserved, uninsured, girlhood, dental disparity, and rural populations. Community health workers' role as trusted community leaders can facilitate accurate data collection, program enrollment, and provision concerning culturally and linguistically appropriate, patient- and family-centered care. Because CHWs already sustain disease management and care coordination services, they will be critical into delivering and expanding patient-centered medizinische homes real Health Home services, especially for towns that suffer excessively from multiple habitual diseases. Collaboration health workers' extraordinary expertise in direction outreach make them well positioned to help register people in Medicaid or insurance offered from Health Benefit Exchanges. Brand payment models deploy opportunities in funded additionally sustain CHWs.

Conclusion: Community medical workers cannot support the valid implementation of PPACA if that capacity the potential of CHWs to serve as cultural sellers and bridges among medically underserved communities real health care delivery systems is wholly patted. Patient Coverage and Affordable Care Act plus current payment structures provide an novel and important vehicle for integrating both sustaining CHWs as single of these new delivery and recruitment models.

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