OBJECTIVE To describe the content and variability for clinical service standards related to quality of care among a convenience sample of academic health centers. DESIGN We used the membership of the University HealthSystem Consortium, an alliance of academic health centers in the United States for clinical services, to survey electronically 53 of these centers regarding clinical service stan...

Evidence acquisition:Using economic systematic review methods developed for The Community Guide, 6,958 papers were identified for the search period January 1985 to September 2014. After two rounds of screening, 21 studies were included in this review: 15 studies reported on cost and nine on benefit; three studies had both cost and benefit information. All expenditures in this review were presen...

PURPOSE To examine the current experience of school-based health centers (SBHCs) in meeting the needs of children and adolescents, changes over time in services provided and program sponsorship, and program adaptations to the changing medical marketplace. METHODS Information for the 1998-1999 Census of School-Based Health Centers was collected through a questionnaire mailed to health centers ...

There are approximately 600 Community and Migrant Health Centers (C/MHCs) providing preventive and primary health care services principally to medically underserved rural and urban areas across the United States. The need to develop geriatric programs within C/MHCs is clear. Less clear is how and under what circumstances a comprehensive geriatric program can be adequately financed. The Health R...

1 Division of Public Health Systems and Workforce Development, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, 2 Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, 3 Global Immunization Division, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, At...

It focuses on health centers, their history and contributions, and the major policy issues that affect health centers and the communities and patients they serve. The RCHN Community Health Foundation, founded in October 2005, is a not-for-profit operating foundation whose purpose is to support community health centers through strategic investment, advocacy, education, and cutting-edge health po...