Health care improvement in Stockton, California: collaboration, capacity-building, and Medicaid expansion
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Case study (Commonwealth fund)
- Author(s):
- Hostetter, Martha, author Klein, Sarah, author McCarthy, Douglas, author
- Contributor(s):
- Commonwealth Fund, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : Commonwealth Fund, July 2017
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Health Care Coalitions Health Services Accessibility -- statistics & numerical data Medicaid -- statistics & numerical data Quality Indicators, Health Care -- statistics & numerical data Quality of Health Care -- statistics & numerical data Health Promotion Hospitalization -- statistics & numerical data Preventive Health Services -- statistics & numerical data Humans California United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- The northern California region of Stockton, including the city and most of the surrounding San Joaquin and Calaveras Counties, stands out along with Akron, Ohio, for having improved on more performance measures (19 of 33) than any other region on the Commonwealth Fund's Scorecard on Local Health System Performance, 2016 Edition. California's Medicaid expansion enabled local providers to increase capacity, which may explain the improvements on some measures of care quality and reductions in potentially avoidable hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and readmissions. Leaders have also expanded access by locating clinics in schools and a neighborhood community center. The region's improvement efforts appear to be facilitated by supportive state policy and the market dominance of a locally governed Medicaid managed care plan. To make further progress, community leaders are developing coalitions and seeking funds to address the social determinants of poor health, including poverty, violence, and poor nutrition.
- 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 (12 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101712705 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101712705