health care safety net resources by state
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Health Care Safety Net Resources by State
Mark A. Hall, Wake Forest University February 2012
Multi-State Resources Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, State Coverage Initiatives, http://www.statecoverage.org/node/24
State Health Access Data Assistance Center, http://www.shadac.org/content/state-profiles and http://www.shadac.org/content/survey-resources
Commonwealth Fund, State Date Center, http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Maps-and-Data/State-Data-Center/State-Scorecard.aspx
Kaiser Family Foundation, State Health Facts: Health Coverage & Uninsured, http://www.statehealthfacts.org/comparecat.jsp?cat=3&rgn=6&rgn=1
ALABAMA “An Analysis of Health Services for the Uninsured and Underinsured in the River Region of Alabama: AUTAUGA, ELMORE, LOWNDES, MACON, AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES.” 2008. Health Management Associates: Envision2020. http://www.envision2020.org.
“Covering Alabama’s Kids and Families.” 2011. Alabama Department of Public Health. http://www.adph.org/CAKF/Default.asp?id=1087.
ALASKA “Alaska Community Health Aide/Practitioner (CHAP) Clinical Practice Description.” 2009. CHAP Alaska and Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. http://www.akchap.org.
“Publications.” State of Alaska: Health Planning and Systems Development. http://www.hss.state.ak.us/dph/healthplanning/publications/default.htm.
ARIZONA “Health Care Resources for Arizona’s Low Income and Uninsured Families.” 2008. Children’s Action Alliance. http://www.azchildren.org/MyFiles/PDF/2008%20Health%20Manual%20-%20FINAL%20ENGLISH%20-%20updated%202-09.pdf
“Primary Care Program.” Arizona Department of Health Services: Division of Public Health Services. http://www.azdhs.gov/hsd/pcpmanual-r.pdf
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“An Assessment of the Safety Net in Phoenix, Arizona.” 2004. Urgent Matters. http://urgentmatters.org/media/file/aboutProject_reports_Final_Phoenix.pdf
“AACHC Resources- Data.” 2011 Arizona Association of Community Health Centers. http://www.aachc.org/resources-data.
ARKANSAS “Research and Resources: Issues- Child Health.” 2010. Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. http://www.aradvocates.org/child-health/.
“Saving starfish. Arkansas programs provide service to those without access to health care.”2006. Journal of the Arkansas Medical Society. 102(10): 268-270. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16619968/.
“Data & Resources.” 2011. Community Health Centers of Arkansas, Inc. http://www.chc-ar.org/resources Arkansas Health Care Access Foundation, Inc. 2009. http://www.ahcaf.org/.
“ACHI Initiatives.” 2010. Arkansas Canter for Health Improvement. http://www.achi.net/initiatives.asp.
CALIFORNIA “California's Safety Nets and The Need to Improve Local Collaboration in Care for the Uninsured: Counties, Clinics, Hospitals and Local Health Plans.” 2008. Rochelle Tuttle and Lucien Wulsin. http://www.itup.org/Reports/Statewide/Safetynet_Report_Final.pdf
“County Medical Services Program.” 2010. California County Medical Services. http://www.cmspcounties.org/
“Underserved and Uninsured.” 2011. California Health Care Foundation.” http://www.chcf.org/topics/uninsured-and-underserved
“Caring for Medically Indigent Adults in California: A History.” 2011. California Health Care Foundation. http://www.chcf.org/topics/medi-cal/index.cfm?itemID=112156
“48 Counties: County Care for the Uninsured.” 2004. ITUP. http://www.itup.org/Reports/Statewide/2007_48%20Counties-County%20Care.pdf
“ITUP: Insure the Uninsured Project.” 2011. http://itup.org/
“MICRS County Data.” 2010. California Department of Public Health. http://www.cdph.ca.gov/data/statistics/Pages/MICRSCountyData.aspx
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California Health Care Data Resources: http://www.chis.ucla.edu/ http://www.oshpd.ca.gov/HID/ALIRTS/index.html
COLORADO Yondorf, B. “Colorado Health Care Spending on the Uninsured Medically Indigent.” 2003. http://www.bighorncenter.org
“Colorado Household Survey 2008-2009.” 2009. Colorado, The Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/HCPF/HCPF/1242218508619
“Primer: Colorado's Health Care Safety Net.” February 2009. Colorado Health Institute. http://www.coloradohealthinstitute.org/documents/sn/primerUpdate09.pdf
“The State of Colorado’s Health Care Safety Net: Safety Net Indicators and Monitoring (SNIMS) Progress Report.” May 2009. Colorado Health Institute. http://www.coloradohealthinstitute.org/Documents/sn/snims.pdf
“A Guidebook of Colorado Community Programs for the Medically Underserved.” December 2001. Coalition for the Medically Underserved. http://www.ccmu.org
“Medically Indigent and Colorado Indigent Care Program Annual Reports.” 2011. Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/HCPF/HCPF/1197969486316
Hall, Mark A. “The Costs and Adequacy of Safety Net Access for the Uninsured Denver, Colorado.” June 2010. http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/safetynetdenver201006.pdf
“2010 Colorado Safety Net Specialty Care Assessment- Final Report.” 2011. Colorado Health institute. http://www.coloradohealthinstitute.org/~/media/Documents/sn/SpecialtyCare.ashx.
“Comparisons by Topic: Safety Net.” 2011. Colorado Health Institute. http://datacenter.coloradohealthinstitute.org/data_topic.jsp?c=6&Image1.x=8&Image1.y=11
CONNECTICUT “Improving Connecticut’s Health Through Information: Publications.” Connecticut Health Policy Project. http://www.cthealthpolicy.org/pubs/default.htm.
“Office of Health Care Access.” 2011. Connecticut Department of Public Health. http://www.ct.gov/ohca/cwp/view.asp?a=1731&q=276930
Beazoglou, T. et al. 2005. “The dental safety net in Connecticut.” Journal of the America Dental Association. 136(10): 1457-1462. http://jada.info/content/136/10/1457.full.pdf+html
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DELAWARE
“Final Report: Analysis of Delaware’s Safety Net.” 2002. John Snow and Delaware Health Information Network. http://www.dhin.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=Ffj5Rr0QOzQ=&tabid=69&mid=421
“Annual Report and Strategic Planning, 2010.” 2010. Delaware Health Care Commission. http://dhss.delaware.gov/dhss/dhcc/files/dhcc_annual_report_2010.pdf
“Delaware Uninsured Resources: Publications.” 2010. Delaware Uninsured. http://delawareuninsured.org/publications.htm
DISTRICT of COLUMBIA Meyer, Jack, et al. Expanding Health Coverage in the District of Columbia: D.C.'s Shift from Providing Services to Subsidizing Individuals and Its Continuing Challenges in Promoting Health, 1999-2009, http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2010/1210_dc_healthcare.aspx
King, Jennifer and the State Planning Grant team. September 2005. “Insurance and Uninsurance in the District of Columbia, Starting with the Numbers.” DC Department of Health and The Urban Institute research report. http://www.urban.org/publications/311234.html
Cook, Allison and Ormond, Barbara A. 2007. “Who Has Insurance and Who Does Not in the District of Columbia?” Washington, DC: The Urban Institute. Policy Brief DC-SPG no.3, December 14, 2007. http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=411589
“Final Report: Strategies for Change.” 2000. DC Watch: Health Care System Development Corporation. http://dcwatch.com/issues/pbc0012.htm
Nicole Lurie, Carole Roan Gresenz, Marsha Regenstein, Bruce Siegel. 2008. “Assessing Health and Health Care in the District of Columbia: Phase 2 Report (2008).” http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR579/
FLORIDA "Florida's Health Care Safety Net: A Comprehensive List of State and County Based Resources for the Uninsured” (Sept. 2008), http://fcmu.phhp.ufl.edu/resources/pdf/uninsured_programs_in_florida_counties_sep08.pdf
Florida Uninsured Study Group, Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, http://www.fdhc.state.fl.us/USG.shtml
Low Income Pool, http://www.fdhc.state.fl.us/Medicaid/medicaid_reform/lip/lip.shtml
A Profile of Uninsured Floridians: Findings from the 2004 Florida Health Insurance Study, http://www.shadac.org/files/FL_2004_HH_Findings.pdf
Highlights from the 2004 Florida Health Insurance Study, http://www.fdhc.state.fl.us/docs/2004_FHIS.pdf
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County Estimates of People Without Health Insurance from the 2004 Florida Health Insurance Studies, http://www.fachc.org/pdf/cd_uninsured%20by%20county%2004.pdf
Health Choice Network Annual Report, http://www.hcnetwork.org/publications.htm
Hospital Care for the Uninsured in Miami-Dade County (RAND Corp., 2002), http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/2007/MR1522.pdf
GEORGIA “Georgia’s Rural Health Safety Net Program.” 2007. Georgia Department of Community Health. http://dch.georgia.gov/00/article/0,2086,31446711_31450193_84074489,00.html
“Celebrating Georgia’s Rural Health Safety Networks Sustainability and Resource Acquisition Intensives.” 2005. Georgia Department of Community Health. http://aysps.gsu.edu/ghpc/community_health_systems_development/events/june9.pdf
“Georgia Free Clinic Quick Facts.” 2009. Georgia Free Clinic Network. http://www.gfcn.org/quick-facts.php
“Resources for the Insured, Uninsured and Uninsurable, in Georgia.” 2011. Georgia Insurance Shop. http://www.georgiainsuranceshop.com/client-resources-2/resources/
“Assistance for the uninsured.” Georgia Department of Community Health. http://www.georgia.gov/00/article/0,2086,31446711_31450193_140650786,00.html
An Assessment of the Safety Net in Atlanta, Georgia (March 2004), http://urgentmatters.org/media/file/aboutProject_reports_Final_Atlanta.pdf
HAWAII “On Common Ground: 2003 Coverage Report.” 2003. The Hawai’i Uninsured Project. http://www.healthcoveragehawaii.org/pdf/HIPA_2003ProgressReport.pdf
“Strengthening Hawai’i’s Safety Net.” 2003. The Hawai’i Uninsured Project. http://www.healthcoveragehawaii.org/target/safetynet.html
“Hawaii’s Uninsured.” 2011. The Hawaii Institute of Public Affairs. http://www.hipaonline.com/uninsured. *This website is currently under construction. A better and more detailed citation will be given once it is available.
“Health Markets: Uninsured.” 2008. Health Trends in Hawai’i. http://healthtrends.org/healthmarket_uninsured.aspx.
IDAHO “Idaho’s Health Care Costs and Options to Improve Health Care Access: Cataloging Public Health Expenditures in Idaho.” 2007. State Health Access Data Assistance Center. http://www.shadac.org/files/shadac/publications/Idaho2007_Task1_Report.pdf
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“Safety Net Initiative: Publications and Tools.” 2011. The Safety Net Medical Home Association: Idaho Primary Care Association. http://www.qhmedicalhome.org/safety-net/publications.cfm.
“Options for Expanding Health Care for the Uninsured: A Review of State and Community Approaches.” 2007. Office of Performance Evaluations: Idaho Legislature http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/ope/publications/reports/r0708.pdf
“Getting Health Care When You Are Uninsured: A Survey of Uninsured Patients at Four Facilities in Nampa and Twin Falls, Idaho.” The Access Project: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Idaho Primary Care Association. http://www.accessproject.org/adobe/cams_idaho.pdf
“Terry Reilly Annual Reports.” 2011. Terry Reilly Health Services. http://www.trhs.org/AboutUs/AnnualReports/tabid/79/Default.aspx
ILLINOIS “Health Care Safety Net—Regional.” 2011. Health and Medicine: Policy Research Group. http://hmprg.org/programs-projects/regional-healthcare-safety-net/
“Illinois Healthcare Portal: Health Program Finder.” 2011. State of Illinois Health and Wellness. http://health.illinois.gov/
“Safety Net Dental Clinics in Illinois: Their Role in Oral Health Care.” 2002. Illinois Health Workforce Center. http://www.uic.edu/sph/irhwc/il%20safety%20net%20.pdf
Chicago- “Resource Materials from the Gilead Outreach and Referral Center.” 2003. Gilead Outreach Center and Referral Center. http://www.gileadcenter.org/resources/index.html
“Community Health is the Largest Free Clinic in Illinois.” 2011. Community health. http://www.communityhealth.org/
INDIANA “Safety Net Assessment: November 2004.” 2004. Health Insurance for Indiana Families Committee, Indiana Family and Social Services Administration. http://www.in.gov/fssa/files/SafetyNet.pdf
“Resources.” 2011. Indiana Rural Health Association. http://www.indianaruralhealth.org/index.php?src=directory&view=Resources
“Community Health Centers (CHC). 2011. Indiana Primary Health Care Association. http://www.indianapca.org/aboutchcs/description.html
“Indiana Oral Heath Safety Net Solutions.” 2011. Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, IU School of Dentistry and Indiana Dental Association. http://www.indental.org/getattachment/Public-Resources/Your-Dental-Health/Low-Cost-Dental-Care/Indiana-Oral-Health-Safety-Net.pdf.aspx
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Indianapolis- “Health Care Safety Net for Metropolitan Indianapolis.” 2008. Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation and Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County. http://www.mchd.com/pdf/epi_safetynet_1208.pdf
IOWA
“Iowa Collaborative Safety Net Provider Network.” 2010. Medical Home System Advisory Council Meeting. http://www.idph.state.ia.us/IDPHChannelsService/file.ashx?file=E524DD57-1229-45C1-9C0E-05D8592F88CD
“About Iowa PCA.” 2011. Iowa Primary Care Association. http://www.iowapca.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1
“Bureau of Health Care Access: Links to Programs.” 2011. Iowa Department of Public Health. http://www.iarhc.org/about_iarhc/about_iarhc.php
“Impact of the ACA and Health System Change on the Iowa Safety Net.” 2011. The University of Iowa Public Policy Center. http://ppc.uiowa.edu/pages.php?id=263. *results of study to come
“About IARHC.” 2011. Iowa Association of Rural Health Clinics. http://www.iarhc.org/about_iarhc/about_iarhc.php
“Health Care Safety Net.” 2010. Division of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention: Iowa Department of Public Health. http://www.senate.iowa.gov/democrats/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/110607_huntsman_testimony2.pdf
“Patient & Service Data.” 2010. Free Clinics of Iowa. http://www.freeclinicsofiowa.org/about/patient-data
“Iowa Mission of Mercy (IMOM).” 2011. Iowa Dental Association. http://www.iowadental.org/events_calendar/iowa_mission_of_mercy.cfm
KANSAS
“KAMU Publications.” 2011. Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved: The Primary Care Association of Kansas. http://www.kspca.org/index.php?option=com_docman&Itemid=59
“Kansas Safety Net System.” 2009. Public Health and Welfare Committee, Kansas Health Institute. http://media.khi.org/news/documents/2009/10/21/Kansas_Safety_Net-KHI_GMaree_1-23-09.pdf
“Charitable Health Program.” 2011. Kansas Department of Health and Environment. http://www.kdheks.gov/olrh/CHP.htm
“Rural Health.” 2011. Kansas Department of Health and Environment. http://www.kdheks.gov/olrh/rural.html
“KRHOP and Kansas Reports.” 2011. Kansas Rural Health and Options Project. http://www.krhop.net/reports.php
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“Safety Net Clinic List.” 2011. Oral Health Kansas. http://www.oralhealthkansas.org/safetynet.html
KENTUCKY
“Resource Lists.” 2011. Safety Net Alliance of Northern Kentucky. http://www.nkysafetynet.org/resourcelist.aspx
“Data/Research/Links” 2010. Kentucky Voices for Health. http://kyvoicesforhealth.com/research.html
“What is Health Kentucky?” 2005. Health Kentucky. http://www.healthkentucky.org/what-is-health-kentucky
“About us.” 2009. Kentucky Rural Health Association. http://www.kyrha.org/about/
“About KFHCA.” 2011. Kentucky Free Health Clinic Association. http://kyfreeclinics.org/about/
Lexington- “Salvation Army Clinic.” 2011. University of Kentucky Salvation Army Clinic. http://uksaclinic.blogspot.com/
LOUISIANA
“Assessment of Health Care Safety Net Needs and Services in Central Louisiana.” 2004. The Lewin Group. http://www.lewin.com/publications/Publication/171/
“Annual Meetings and Reports.” 2011. Primary Care and Rural Health, Louisiana Office of Public Health. http://www.dhh.louisiana.gov/offices/page.asp?ID=88&Detail=8417
Mary A. Clark. 2010. “Rebuilding the Past: Health Care Reform in Post- Katrina Louisiana.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. 35(5): 743-769.
“Publications.” 2011. Louisiana Rural Health Association. http://www.lrha.org/LRHA_publications.htm
MAINE
“State of Maine: Primary Care Safety Net Environmental Scan.” Feb. 2006. John Snow, Inc. http://www.mehaf.org/pictures/jsi_environmental_scan.pdf
“Evaluating the Impact of Recent Federally Qualified Health Care Expansions on Access and Cost in Maine.” 2008. http://www.mehaf.org/pictures/reportsandbriefs/Final_FQHC_Report_1.6.09.pdf
Hall, Mark A. August 2010. “The Costs and Adequacy of Safety Net Access for the Uninsured, South Coastal Maine (CarePartners).” http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/49869maine.pdf
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Ormond C and Gerrish, S. February 2006. “Opportunities and Challenges: Improving Access and Health Outcomes through the CarePartners Program.” http://www.mehaf.org/pictures/opportunities_and_challenges_1.pdf
“Cost of Caring for Uninsured People in Maine.” 2007. Urban Institute. http://www.urban.org/publications/1001088.html
MARYLAND
Gresenz, Carole R., Janice C. Blanchard, Teague Ruder, Shallon Craddock, Nicole Lurie. 2009. “Serving the Underserved: A Mid-Course Evaluation of Montgomery Cares, 2009.” RAND Corporation. http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR683/
“Maryland Health Care Reform Coordinating Council.” 2010. Public Health, Safety Net, and Special Populations Workgroup. http://dhmh.maryland.gov/healthreform/pdf/FinalReportPublicHealthWorkgroup.pdf
MASSACHUSETTS
Hall, Mark A. June 2010. “The Costs and Adequacy of Safety Net Access for the Uninsured Boston, Massachusetts” http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/safetynetmass201006.pdf
Seifert, RW. 2002. “The Uncompensated Care Pool: Saving the Safety Net.” Massachusetts Health Policy Forum. http://masshealthpolicyforum.brandeis.edu/publications/pdfs/16-Oct02/IB%20UncompCarePool%2016.pdf
“Issue Brief: Massachusetts Health Reform: Lessons Learned About the Critical Role of Safety Net Health Systems.” April 2009. National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems (NAPH). http://www.naph.org/Publications/MA-Health-Reform-Issue-Brief.aspx
Ku L et al. 2009. “How is the Primary Care Safety Net Faring in Massachusetts? Community Health Centers in the Midst of Health Reform.” Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/7878.pdf
“Health Safety Net Implementation and Eligibility.” March 2009. Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy. www.mass.gov/Eeohhs2/docs/dhcfp/r/pubs/09/2009_03-13_hsn_impl_elig_report.pdf
Hall, Mark A. June 2010. “The Costs and Adequacy of Safety Net Access for the Uninsured Boston, Massachusetts.” http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/safetynetmass201006.pdf
Mead, H et al. March 2004. “An Assessment of the Safety Net in Boston, Massachusetts. George Washington University Medical Center.” http://urgentmatters.org/media/file/aboutProject_reports_Final_Boston.pdf
“DHCFP Publications.” 2011. Massachusetts Health and Human Services. http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eohhs2terminal&L=4&L0=Home&L1=Researcher&L2=Physical+Health+and+Treatment&L3=Health+Care+Delivery+System&sid=Eeohhs2&b=terminalcontent&f=dhcfp_researcher_all_dhcfp_publications&csid=Eeohhs2
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Long, S.K. and L. Phadera. November 2009. “Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care in Massachusetts: Detailed Tabulations Based on the 2009 Massachusetts Health Insurance Survey.” Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy. http://www.mass.gov/Eeohhs2/docs/dhcfp/r/pubs/09/his_detailed_tables_2009.pdf
Holahan J et al. 2004. “Caring for the Uninsured in Massachusetts: What Does It Cost, Who Pays and What Would Full Coverage Add to Medical Spending?” Urban Institute. http://www.urban.org/publications/1000981.html
MICHIGAN
“Michigan’s Health Care Safety Net Providers.” 2010. Michigan Department of Community Health. http://michigan.gov/documents/mdch/SAFETY_NET_description_2010_v6_maps_330748_7.pdf
“Research and Reports.” 2011. Michigan Primary Care Association. http://www.mpca.net/research-reports.html
Jacobson, P.D., V.K. Dalton, J. Berson-Grand, and C.S. Weisman. 2005. “Survival Strategies for Michigan’s Health Care Safety Net Providers.” Health Services Research. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361175/
“Michigan’s Health Care Safety Net: In Jeopardy.” 2009. Michigan Health and Hospital Association. http://www.mha.org/mha_app/public_site/jeopardy.jsp
“How Can I Get Free or Low Cost Health Care for Me and My Family?” 2011. Michigan Department of Community Health. http://www.michigan.gov/mdch/0,1607,7-132-2943_52115---,00.html
Hall, Mark A. June 2010. “The Costs and Adequacy of Safety Net Access for the Uninsured Genesee County (Flint), Michigan.” http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/safetynetmichigan201006.pdf
“About Us.” 2011. Free Clinics of Michigan. http://www.fcomi.org/about-us.html
“An Assessment of the Safety Net in Detroit, Michigan.” 2004. Urgent Matters. http://urgentmatters.org/media/file/aboutProject_reports_Final_Detroit.pdf
MINNESOTA
“Minnesota Urban Health Care Safety Net.” 2011. Minnesota Department of Health. http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/orhpc/primary.html
“Publications.” 2011. Office of Rural Health and Primary Care, Minnesota Department of Health. http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/orhpc/pubs/index.cfm
“Data and Publications.” 2010. Minnesota Association of Community Health Centers. http://mnachc.org/data-p.html
“Health Care Options for Minnesota’s Uninsured.” 2010. Portico Healthnet. http://www.porticohealthnet.org/docs/options.pdf
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“Minnesota Health Care Safety Net Coalition.” 2011. http://www.mnsafetynetcoalition.org/index.html
“How much would it cost to cover the uninsured in Minnesota? 2006. Minnesota Department of Health, Health Economics Program. http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/hpsc/hep/publications/coverage/uninsurecost.pdf
MISSISSIPPI
“Resources.” 2011. Mississippi Primary Health Care Association. http://www.mphca.com/Resources.htm
“Disparity Elimination Resources.” 2011. Disparity Elimination, Mississippi State Department of Health. http://www.msdh.state.ms.us/msdhsite/index.cfm/44,0,236,77,html
Mississippi Rural Health Association. 2011. http://www.msrha.org/
“Hurricane Katrina Five Years Later http://www.directrelief.org/PressCenter/PressReleases/2010/HurricaneKatrinaFiveYearAnniv.aspx “MHAP Free Clinic Resource List.” Mississippi Health Advocacy Program. http://mhap.pmhclients.com/images/uploads/Free_Clinic_Resource-MHAP.pdf
“Uninsured in the Mississippi Delta.” 2010. Media Matters. http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/watch/10/uninsured_in_the_mississippi_delta *this resource is included to show that there are free clinics serving the poor parts of this state but they are not well researched and documented
MISSOURI
“Resources.” 2011. Missouri Health Equity Collaborative. http://www.mohec.org/recent-resources/
“MO HealthNet Division.”2011. Missouri Department of Social Services. http://www.dss.mo.gov/mhd/
“Uninsured Women Health Services Program.” 2009. Missouri Department of Social Services. http://dss.mo.gov/fsd/uwhs.htm
Kansas City- “Health Resource Guide: Your Guide to Safety Net Health Services in the Greater Kansas City.” 2011. Greater Kansas City Cover the Uninsured Coalition. http://www.kchealthresource.org/assets/healthresourceguide_eng.pdf
“KC Free Health Clinic Annual Reports.” 2011. KC Free. http://www.kcfree.org/news/ann_report_07-08/annualreport.html
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MONTANA
“Montana’s Strategic Plan to Provide More Affordable Health Care Coverage.” 2004. Department of Public Health and Human Services. http://www.dphhs.mt.gov/publications/stateplanninggrant.pdf
Davis, G. “Montana's Health Care Safety Net.” 2010. Montana Business Quarterly. 48(4): 16-20.
“Montana’s Health Centers.” 2011. Montana Primary Care Association. http://www.mtpca.org/mthealth.htm
NEBRASKA
“Office of Community Health and Performance Management, State Planning Grant Management.” 2011. Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services. http://dhhs.ne.gov/publichealth/Pages/puh_oph_grant.aspx
“Resources.” 2011. Nebraska Appleseed. http://neappleseed.org/resources
“Nebraska Every Woman Matters.” 2011. Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services. http://www.hhs.state.ne.us/hew/owh/ewm/
“Publications.” 2011. The Nebraska Center for Rural Health Research, University of Nebraska Medical Center. http://www.unmc.edu/rural/documents/
Lincoln- “Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on the Health Care Safety Net.” 2009. Health Partner’s Initiative. http://lincoln.ne.gov/city/Mayor/pdf/healthcare.pdf
NEVADA “Access All Nevada: Preserve, Strengthen and Expand Community Health Centers.” 2009. University of Nevada School of Medicine and Great Basin Primary Care Association of Nevada. http://www.gbpca.org/Documents/Access%20All%20Nevada%20Web.pdf
“Nevada Strategic Health Care Plan.” 2007. Nevada Legislative Committee on Health Care. p.46. http://dhhs.nv.gov/PDFs/NV_Strategic_Health_Plan_2007-0223b.pdf
“HAWC Annual Reports.” 2011. HAWC Community Health Centers. http://www.hawcinc.org/annualreports.htm
“Special Programs.” 2011. Nevada Health Centers Inc. http://www.nvrhc.org/special-programs.cfm
NEW HAMPSHIRE Hall, Mark A. June 2010. “The Costs and Adequacy of Safety Net Access for the Uninsured Exeter and Portsmouth County, New Hampshire (SeaCare).” http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/49869nh.pdf
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“New Hampshire's Healthcare Dashboard.” Aug. 2009. New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies. http://www.nhpolicy.org/reports/dashboard09final.pdf
LaFrance, SV. March 1, 2003. “Strengthening the Health Care 'Safety Net' in New Hampshire.” New Hamp. Bar J. http://www.nhbar.org/publications/archives/display-journal-issue.asp?id=111
New Hampshire Web Reporting and Querying System: http://nhhealthwrqs.org/access.html
“Publications.” 2008. Bi-State Primary Care Association, Vermont and New Hampshire.
http://www.bistatepca.org/resources
NEW JERSEY “Monitoring the Health Care Safety net in New Jersey.” 2006. Rutgers Center for Sate Health Policy. http://www.cshp.rutgers.edu/Downloads/6490.pdf “Healthcare Services for Uninsured and Under-insured People.” 2006. New Jersey Health Link. http://www.nj.gov/njhealthlink/home/uninsured.html
“New Jersey Hospital Care Payment Assistance Program.” 2009. New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services. http://www.nj.gov/health/charitycare/index.shtml
“Governor Chris Christie Reforms and Strengthens New Jersey’s Safety Net with Increased Charity Care and Graduate Medical Education Funding in Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Proposal.” 2011. State of New Jersey Department of human Services. http://www.state.nj.us/humanservices/news/press/2011/approved/20110228.html
NEW MEXICO Kaufman, Arthur, Daniel Derksen, Charles Alfero, Robert DeFelice, Saverio Sava, Angelo Tomedi, Nicola Baptiste, Leora Jaeger and Wayne Powell. 2006. “The Health Commons and Care of New Mexico’s Uninsured.” The Annals of Family Medicine. 4: S22-S27. http://www.annfammed.org/content/4/suppl_1/S22.full.pdf+html
“Primary and Rural Health Program.” 2011. New Mexico Department of Health. http://nmhealth.org/PHD/OPRH.shtml
“Strengthening New Mexico Health Care Access: Access, Coverage, and Economics.” 2007. New Mexico First. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=new%20mexico%20access%20health&source=web&cd=7&ved=0CFYQFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnmfirst.org%2FLiteratureRetrieve.aspx%3FID%3D52256&ei=QNuqTqXhD4WhtweolvT_Dg&usg=AFQjCNFciTOOL10fKSa6fP9IISePO9DUbw (CLICK FOR OPTIONS AND DOWNLOAD FILE) “New Mexico Area Health Education Centers.” 2011. The University of New Mexico. http://hsc.unm.edu/community/AHEC/#
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NEW YORK Randall R. Bovbjerg, Stan Dorn, Jack Hadley, John Holahan, and Dawn M. Miller. October 2006. “Caring for the Uninsured in New York: What Does it Cost, Who Pays and What Would Full Coverage Add to Health Care Spending?” Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, report to the New York Community Trust. http://www.urban.org/publications/311372.html.
The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation: Transforming a Public Safety Net Delivery System to Achieve Higher Performance, http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=710848
NORTH CAROLINA “North Carolina Healthcare Safety Net Report.” 2005. North Carolina Institute of Medicine. http://www.nciom.org
Hall, Mark A. and Wenke Hwang. June 2010 “The Costs and Adequacy of Safety Net Access for the Uninsured, Buncombe County (Asheville), North Carolina.” http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/safetynetnc201006.pdf
“Expanding Access to Health Care in North Carolina.” 2009. North Carolina Institute of Medicine (NC IOM). http://www.nciom.org/publications/?healthaccessstudygroup
North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics: http://www.schs.state.nc.us/SCHS/brfss/2008/index.html
NORTH DAKOTA “North Dakota’s Uninsured and Uncompensated Care: Costs and Coverage Options.” 2004. Center for Rural Health, University of North Dakota School of Medicine. http://ruralhealth.und.edu/pdf/policybrief2.pdf
“Annual Reports.” 2011. Dakota Medical Foundation. http://www.dakmed.org/about/annual-reports/
“About Us.” 2011. Community Health Care Association of the Dakotas. http://communityhealthcare.net/KnowCHAD/whoweare.html
OHIO “A Snapshot of Ohio’s Health Care Safety Net.” 2010. Health Policy Institute of Ohio. http://a5e8c023c8899218225edfa4b02e4d9734e01a28.gripelements.com/pdf/projects/safetynet_report.pdf
“Ohio’s Health Care Safety Net: Challenges and Opportunities.” 2010. Health Policy Institute of Ohio. http://a5e8c023c8899218225edfa4b02e4d9734e01a28.gripelements.com/pdf/publications/safetynetslides.pdf
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“Strengthening Ohio’s Safety Net- Resources.” 2011. The Health Path Foundation of Ohio. http://www.gcfdn.org/HealthPath/StrengtheningOhiosSafetyNet/SOSSafetyNetResources/tabid/361/Default.aspx
“Ohio Health Care Safety Net: A description of public and private programs.” 2007. Ohio Family Coverage Coalition. http://www.ohiofreeclinics.org/documents/SafetyNetWhitepaper.pdf
Ohio Association of Free Clinics: http://www.ohiofreeclinics.org/
OKLAHOMA
“About Us.” 2011. Oklahoma Primary Care Association. http://www.okpca.org/about-us
“Oklahoma Volunteer Charitable Healthcare Provider Program.” 2011. Oklahoma State Department of Health. http://www.ok.gov/health/Community_Health/Community_Development_Service/Primary_Care_&_Rural_Health_Development/Oklahoma_Volunteer_Charitable_Healthcare_Provider_Program/index.html
Barczak, M. 2004. “The Uninsured in Oklahoma: Who are they and why don’t they have insurance?” Community Action Project. http://www.okpolicy.org/files/Oklahoma_uninsured.pdf
Oklahoma Health Alliance for the Uninsured: http://hauonline.org/
Tulsa- “Strategic Planning for Safety Net Services.” 2006. The Lewin Group. http://www.ou.edu/content/dam/Tulsa/wtshc/doc/Lewin.pdf
OREGON “Oregon’s Healthcare Safety Net.” 2008. Safety Net Advisory Council (SNAC). http://www.oregon.gov/OHA/OHPR/SNAC/docs/SNACreport_FINAL.pdf?ga=t
“Safety Net Advisory Council- Reference Materials.” 2011. Oregon Health Policy and Research. http://www.oregon.gov/OHA/OHPR/SNAC/index.shtml
“Primary Care Office.” 2011. Oregon Health Policy and Research. http://www.oregon.gov/OHA/OHPR/PCO/index.shtml
PENNSYLVANIA Safety Net Association of Pennsylvania: http://www.pasafetynet.org/index.html; http://www.pasafetynet.org/docs/white_papers/We_are_SNAP_042209.pdf
“Health Care Options for Uninsured Patients in Pennsylvania.” 2011. Health Associates of South Philadelphia, Inc. http://www.healthassociates.com/uninsured.htm
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Philadelphia- “Programs.” 2011. Urban Solutions, Inc. http://www.philaurbansolutions.org/Our_Programs.html
Pittsburgh- Operation Safety Net: http://www.pmhs.org/operation-safety-net/
RHODE ISLAND “Rhode Island Health Center Association Annual Report 2010/2011.” 2011. RIHCA. http://www.rihca.org/pdfs/RIHCA%20Annual%20Report%202010-2011_web.pdf
“Office of Primary Care and Rural Health.” 2011. State of Rhode Island Department of Health. http://www.health.ri.gov/programs/primarycareandruralhealth/
Rhode Island Free Clinic: http://www.rifreeclinic.org/
“The Dental Safety Net in Rhode Island.” 2011. Rhode Island Department of Health. http://www.health.ri.gov/publications/reports/2011DentalSafetyNet.pdf
SOUTH CAROLINA “The Health Care Safety Net in South Carolina: A Test of Tenacity.” 2004. National Health Policy Forum. http://www.statecoverage.org/files/The%20Health%20Care%20Safety%20Net%20in%20South%20Carolina%20-%20A%20Test%20of%20Tenacity.pdf
“Statistics and Reports.” South Carolina Primary Health Care Association. 2010. http://www.scphca.org
“Accesshealth SC: Our Mission.” 2010. South Carolina Hospital Association. http://www.scha.org/accesshealth-sc
“SCORH Services.” 2011. South Carolina Office of Rural Health. http://www.scorh.net/view.php?pid=9
“Health and Access to Care.” (program list on left.). 2011. The Palmetto Project. http://palmettoproject.org/
“Find a Clinic.” 2009. South Carolina Free Clinic Association. http://www.scfreeclinics.org/findaclinic.html
SOUTH DAKOTA
“About Us.” 2011. Community Health Care Association of the Dakotas. http://communityhealthcare.net/KnowCHAD/whoweare.html
“South Dakota Office of Rural Health.” 2011. South Dakota Department of health. http://doh.sd.gov/RuralHealth/
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“South Dakota’s Medically Uninsured.” 2010. South Dakota State University. http://pubstorage.sdstate.edu/AgBio_Publications/articles/rs3-10.pdf
TENNESSEE
“Update on the Health Care Safety Net.” 2010. Tennessee Department of Health. http://health.state.tn.us/Downloads/SafetyNetReport09.pdf
“Behavioral Health Safety Net of Tennessee.” Tennessee Department of Mental Health. http://www.tn.gov/mental/safetynet.html
Nashville- “About the Safety Net Consortium.” 2010. Bridges to Care. http://btc.nashville.gov/Consortium.htm
Memphis- “An Assessment of the Safety Net in Memphis, Tennessee.” 2004. Urgent Matters, George Washington University. http://urgentmatters.org/media/file/aboutProject_reports_Final_Memphis.pdf
TEXAS
“Task Force for Access to Health Care in Texas. Code Red: The Critical Condition of Health in Texas.” 2008. http://www.coderedtexas.org/
Fenz, CM. September 2000. “Providing Health Care to the Uninsured in Texas: A Guide for County Officials.” The Access Project. http://www.accessproject.org/adobe/providing_health_care_to_the_uninsured_in_tx.pdf
Wilson, M., P. Shin, M. Regenstein, and K. Jones K. 2004. “An Assessment of the Safety Net in San Antonio, Texas.” Urgent Matters: The George Washington University Medical Center. http://urgentmatters.org/media/file/aboutProject_reports_Final_SanAntonio.pdf
Hall, Mark A. June 2010. “The Costs and Adequacy of Safety Net Access for the Uninsured: Bexar County (San Antonio), Texas” http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/safetynettexas201006.pdf
UTAH
“Utah’s Safety Net Summit- January-September 2006 Data Review.” 2006. Association for Utah Community Health, Utah Department of Health. http://health.utah.gov/safetynet/providers/pastsummits/200611_DataReviewPresentation.pdf
“Utah’s Health Care safety Net.”2011. Utah Department of Health. http://health.utah.gov/safetynet/
“Health Care Safety Net Providers.” 2011. National Alliance on Mental Health of Utah. http://www.namiut.org/inform-yourself/wellness-initiative/146-health-care-safety-net-providers
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“Community Health Centers, Inc. 2010 Annual Health Report.” http://www.namiut.org/inform-yourself/wellness-initiative/146-health-care-safety-net-providers
VERMONT
“Publications and Resources.” 2010. Vermont Rural Health and Primary Care Plan, Vermont Department of Health. http://healthvermont.gov/rural/resources.aspx
“Department of Vermont Health Access.” 2011. Vermont.gov. http://dvha.vermont.gov/
“Publications.” 2008. Bi-State Primary Care Association, Vermont and New Hampshire. http://www.bistatepca.org/resources
Vermont Coalition of Clinics for the Uninsured: http://www.vccu.net/
VIRGINIA “On the Front Lines of Virginia’s Health Care Safety Net.” 2010. Virginia Health Care Foundation. http://sfc.virginia.gov/pdf/health/2010%20Session/020810%20No9%20Cash%20-%20VHCF.pdf
“Annual Reports.” 2011. Virginia Health Care Foundation. http://www.vhcf.org/about/annual-reports/
“Health Safety Net Providers.” 2011. Virginia Health Care Foundations. http://www.vhcf.org/who-and-how-we-help/medical/health-safety-net-providers/
“Data and Policy- Analyses and Research.” 2011. Office of Minority Health and Health Equity. http://www.vdh.state.va.us/healthpolicy/policyanalysis/index.htm
Virginia BRFSS Data, http://www.vahealth.org/brfss/data.htm
Virginia Health Information, http://www.vhi.org/
Virginia’s Academic Health Centers: Mission-Related Services And Cost (2003), http://www.dmas.virginia.gov/downloads/studies_reports/2003-RD36.pdf
2004 Virginia Health Care Insurance and Access Survey: Select Results http://www.shadac.org/files/VA_2004_HH_Report.pdf
WASHINGTON
“Washington’s Primary Care Safety Net: Structure and Availability.” 2004. Office of Community and Rural Health, Washington Department of Health. http://www.doh.wa.gov/hsqa/ocrh/har/wapcnet.pdf
“Access for All Washington, Securing Primary Care for Washington’s Underserved.” 2009. Washington Association of Community and Migrant Health Centers.
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“News and Publications.” 2011. Washington Association of Community and Migrant Health Centers. http://wacmhc.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=51
“Basic Health Publications.” 2011. Washington State Health Care Authority, Basic Health. http://www.basichealth.hca.wa.gov/publications.html
“Resources.” 2011. Washington Rural Health Association. http://www.wrha.com/resources/
WEST VIRGINIA
“A Shot in the Arm for West Virginia: Increasing Health Coverage for Working Families.” 2009. Families USA. http://www.familiesusa.org/assets/pdfs/a-shot-in-the-arm-for-wv.pdf
“Publications.” 2011. West Virginia Rural Health Research Center. http://wvrhrc.hsc.wvu.edu/publications/
“Advocacy and Networking Links.”2011. West Virginia Rural Health Association. http://www.wvrha.org/index.php?nav=links
“West Virginia State Health Plan: Access.” 2010. West Virginia Health Care Authority. http://www.hcawv.org/PolicyPlan/shpBmat/shpAccPollard.PDF
West Virginia Association of Free Clinics: http://www.wvafc.org/home
WISCONSIN
Wisconsin Department of Health Services Resources (2011): “Safety Net Providers and Resources.” Wisconsin Primary Care, http://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/health/primarycare/Safety_Net_Providers.htm “Free or Reduced-Free Medical Services.” Consumer Guide to Health Care. http://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/guide/spec/freemed.htm “Charity Care in Wisconsin Hospitals.” 2011. Consumer Guide to Health Care. http://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/guide/spec/freehosp.htm
Coughlin, Teresa A., Joshua M. Wiener, Jill A. Marsteller, Debra J. Lipson, David G. Stevenson, and Susan Wallin. 1998. “Health Policy for Low-Income People in Wisconsin.” The Urban Institute. http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/hp_wi.pdf
“Resources.” 2011. Rural Wisconsin Health Care. http://www.rwhc.com/Resources.aspx
WYOMING
Dobie, Sharon A., Amy Hagopian, Beth A. Kirlin, and L. Gary Hart. 2005. “Wyoming Physicians Are Significant Providers of Safety Net Care.” Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. http://www.jabfm.org/content/18/6/470.full.pdf+html
“Wyoming Studies.” 2011. Center for Health Workforce Studies and the Rural Health Research Center. http://depts.washington.edu/wwamiric/location_all.php?location_id=2
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“Publications and Resources.” 2011. Wyoming Primary Care Association. http://www.wypca.org/resources.asp
“Health Care Access in Wyoming.” 2005. State of Wyoming Department of Health. http://www.health.wyo.gov/brfss/pdf/WY03HealthAccess_FINAL3_17b.pdf