Community & Public Health
The Center works to fulfill its mission of improving health status at the community level by gathering, analyzing and disseminating information in a manner that fosters collaboration and innovation and builds trust and relationships with local, state and national, public and private agencies interested in improving health status.
Urban Safety Net. Georgia Health Policy Center studied seven metro-Atlanta counties to measure the demand on and capacity of the urban health care “safety net.” The study addresses the issue of shrinking access for those who face most significant barriers to health care and examines the health needs and safety net services in Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Forsyth, Gwinnett, Clayton and Henry counties. The project is funded by a grant from the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgia through the Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta. Work began November 2005 and will continue through March 2008.
Certificate of Need. Georgia Health Policy Center was contracted by the State Commission on the Efficacy of the Certificate of Need (CON) Program to determine what affect, if any, CONs have on cost of care, quality of care, and hospitals’ ability to provide care for the uninsured.
Legislative Education Initiative. Georgia Health Policy Center was awarded a grant from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation to enhance, over the next three-years, its efforts to educate legislators about issues of health policy.
Southern Regional Health Consortium. Georgia Health Policy Center conducted research, facilitated strategic planning, and hosted researchers from the region to improve health care in eight of the most rural, medically underserved states in the country: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, East Texas and West Virginia.
Health Improvement Programs (HIP) Strategic Planning. Georgia Health Policy Center will develop a strategic plan or project plan that will allow the HIP office to function in a manner that is consistent with DCH mission, goals and priorities as they relate to eradicating health disparities among men, women, children, the elderly, uninsured and underinsured.
Policy Impact Council. Georgia Health Policy Center is contracted to provide evidence-based research and analysis to supplement the work conducted by the Policy Impact Council, Policy Planning and Compliance Group of the Department of Human Resources.
Georgia’s Rural Health Plan. Georgia Health Policy Center is coordinating the development of a State Rural Health Plan at the request of the Georgia State Office of Rural Health. Approximately 70 stakeholders will be involved in a three-month process to develop an inventory of what rural Georgia has accomplished in terms of health improvement and what is needed. Completion date for the plan is January 2007.
Castle Technologies. Georgia Health Policy Center is informing the design of a chronic disease management system for community health clinics. Thus far, the Center has completed a literature review on clinical guidelines for chronic disease management.