| HCFO Launches New Web Site! |
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In an effort to enhance its ability to conduct grantmaking, convene experts, provide technical assistance, translate research, and communicate with policymakers, HCFO has launched a newly redesigned website, www.hcfo.org. Visit us today!
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| Hot Topic: The Primary Care Workforce Supply and Health Reform |
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Recent legislation passed in both houses of Congress is designed to increase access to health insurance and reform the delivery system to encourage high quality, low cost, accountable care. These efforts rely on an adequate supply of health care workers, particularly primary care providers. Given the current shortage of primary care workers, policies that improve the value of such professions as well as increase the supply are necessary for achieving such efforts.
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| HCFO Releases a New Report: Will the United States Have a Shortage of Physicians in 10 Years? |
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Researchers and other experts continue to debate whether the United States will have a shortage of physicians in the future, and if so, whether the government should act now to expand medical school capacity and encourage hospitals to train more residents. This new HCFO report by Sean Nicholson, Ph.D., provides a brief history of government involvement in physician workforce planning, describes and assesses the methods used by the two sides of the physician-shortage debate, and addresses the
fundamental underlying views that determine many observers’ positions in this debate.
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| New Data for Researchers |
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released a new statistical brief that uses statistics from the 2006 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample to analyze emergency department visits in all non-federal hospitals. The Agency finds that falls send more than two million seniors to hospital emergency departments.
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| Grantee Spotlight: Ann S. O'Malley, M.D., M.P.H. |
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Ann S. O’Malley, M.D., M.P.H., was the principal investigator for a HCFO grant that examined a range of strategies that physician practices are using to coordinate the care of their patients.
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| New Grantee Publications |
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Harold S. Luft, Ph.D., published the article, “Economic Incentives to Promote Innovation in Healthcare Delivery,” in the October 2009 issue of Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research.
Becky Briesacher, Ph.D., and colleagues published the article, “Nursing Home Residents and Enrollment in Medicare Part D,” in the October 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
David Dranove, Ph.D., and colleagues published the article, “Does Major Illness Cause Financial Catastrophe?” in the October 13, 2009 online version of Health Services Research.
Glenn Melnick, Ph.D., and colleagues published the article “Trends
in Hospital Cost and Revenue, 1994-2005: How Are They Related to HMO
Penetration, Concentration, and For-Profit Ownership?” in the October 13, 2009 online version of Health Services Research.
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