Evolving picture of nine safety-net hospitals: implications of the ACA and other strategies
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Issue brief (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)
- Author(s):
- Coughlin, Teresa A., author Long, Sharon K., author Peters, Rebecca, author Rudowitz, Robin, author Garfield, Rachel, author
- Contributor(s):
- Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, issuing body. Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Menlo Park, CA : Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, April 2015
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Health Care Reform -- legislation & jurisprudence Health Care Reform -- trends Hospitals -- trends Insurance Coverage -- legislation & jurisprudence Insurance Coverage -- trends Insurance, Health -- legislation & jurisprudence Insurance, Health -- trends Safety-net Providers -- economics United States United States.
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Safety-net hospitals are an integral part of the U.S. health care landscape, providing care to some of the nation's most medically vulnerable populations, including Medicaid enrollees and the uninsured. These hospitals also provide high cost services such as trauma and burn care to all populations and serve as training centers for medical professionals. With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the U.S. health care system is rapidly changing, and safety-net hospitals need to make major adjustments to survive in the post-reform environment. This brief draws on interviews with executives at nine safety-net hospital systems and examines how their hospitals have fared since major coverage provisions of the ACA came into effect in January 2014. The brief also examines new and ongoing strategies that the hospitals are adopting in the face of a quickly changing health care environment. While acknowledging the importance of the ACA, executives at each system in the study noted that other non-ACA related factors have also shaped how their hospitals fared over the last year. The hospitals in the study were: Cook County Health and Hospital System (CCHHS); Denver Health (Denver Health); Harris Health System (Harris Health); New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC); Parkland Health and Hospital System (Parkland); Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System (SCVHHS); San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH); University Medical Center of Southern Nevada (UMC), and Virginia Commonwealth University Health System (VCU). These hospitals participated in two earlier related studies that examined how the systems were preparing for health care reform.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (13 pages)).
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101658011 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101658011