A business planning model to identify new safety net clinic locations.
Adv Health Care Manag
; 16: 95-112, 2014.
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| ID: mdl-25626201
ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
Community health clinics serving the poor and underserved are geographically expanding due to changes in U.S. health care policy. This paper describes the experience of a collaborative alliance of health care providers in a large metropolitan area who develop a conceptual and mathematical decision model to guide decisions on expanding its network of community health clinics. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH:
Community stakeholders participated in a collaborative process that defined constructs they deemed important in guiding decisions on the location of community health clinics. This collaboration also defined key variables within each construct. Scores for variables within each construct were then totaled and weighted into a community-specific optimal space planning equation. This analysis relied entirely on secondary data available from published sources.FINDINGS:
The model built from this collaboration revolved around the constructs of demand, sustainability, and competition. It used publicly available data defining variables within each construct to arrive at an optimal location that maximized demand and sustainability and minimized competition. PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS This is a model that safety net clinic planners and community stakeholders can use to analyze demographic and utilization data to optimize capacity expansion to serve uninsured and Medicaid populations. ORIGINALITY/VALUE Communities can use this innovative model to develop a locally relevant clinic location-planning framework.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Serviços de Saúde Comunitária
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Provedores de Redes de Segurança
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Acessibilidade aos Serviços de Saúde
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Necessidades e Demandas de Serviços de Saúde
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Adv Health Care Manag
Ano de publicação:
2014
Tipo de documento:
Article