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Outreach Works A new resource that provides proven, how-to information regarding community-based outreach efforts.

Providing Health Insurance for the Unemployed: Community Perspectives on the Medical Security Plan of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts This report documents the observations of field-based outreach workers regarding the Medical Security Plan, a state-funded program for unemployed residents to receive health insurance.

Focused Discussion Groups with Staff of Area Medical Providers This report summaries findings from three discussion groups with staff of physicians' offices regardign ways of promoting post-enrollment access to health care for Medicaid/CHIP members. (prepared for AHEC by Linkages Research Group, Inc.)

Behind the Numbers This report documents the stories of people in Massachusetts who are dealing with limits to access to health care coverage and access. Based on input from field-based workers statewide.

Community-based Perspectives on the Insurance Partnership program A report based on a focus group with community workers, provides feedback on community-level implementation.

Making the Connections:
Creating the Infrastructure to Support Community-Based Outreach in Massachusetts
An issue brief by the Massachusetts Covering Kids program. Documents Massachusett's successful efforts of engaging community-based organizations in outreach and enrollment initiatives.

Making Outreach Work Help enroll people in health insurance programs. This document has proven best practices for doing community-based outreach gathered from outreach workers throughout Mass.

A Card Is Not Health Care: Moving Beyond Enrollment As outreach and enrollment continues to expand nationally, it is important to address post-enrollment issues and appropriate utilization of services by those newly insured.

Truly Re-Inventing Government Documents the impact of the Health Access Networks program in Massachusetts and its role in transforming the health access landscape regarding community-government relationships.

 

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Providing Health Insurance for the Unemployed -Jan. 2002
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Focused Discussion Groups with Staff of Area Medical Providers -Jan. 2002
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Community-based Perspectives of the Insurance Partnership- April 2001

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Post Enrollment Needs in Massachusetts (as seen by outreach workers) April 2001

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Creating Effective Infra-Structure for Community-based Outreach and Enrollment (for Covering Kids)- March 2001

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Truly Re-Inventing Government: The Health Access Networks as a Model

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Health Access Networks as an Innovation

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A Card Is Not Health Care: Moving Beyond Enrollment

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Moving Beyond Enrollment: A Program Fact Sheet

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Making Outreach Work -2nd edition How to enroll people in health insurance programs. Collected best practices from outreach workers in the field throughout Massachusetts.

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1+1=3- Findings of Key Informant Survey regarding the Health Access Networks, a model for facilitating state-community initiatives

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Immigration Decision Tree- a tool for outreach workers to help determine the "public charge" risk of enrolling people in health care programs

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Considerations for Setting Up an Outreach Program (46K) Guidelines for establishing a community-based outreach program

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Barriers to Health Care in Rural Massachusetts Identifies a broad range of issues that prevent residents of rural MA. and similiar rural communities from accessing health coverage and care

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Who are the Uninsured & Underinsured in Rural Massachusetts (35K) Identifies various categories of residents in rural MA. who are either uninsured or underinsured.

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Free Pharmacy Programs: What you need to know to obtain free medications (33K) Guide to setting up a program to access free medications through corporate giving programs

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