Matthew Fifolt, Connie White-Williams, Alison Hernandez, Elizabeth Blunck, Maria R Shirey, Michele Talley
{"title":"The Experiences of Health Care Providers Serving Under-Resourced Patients With Chronic Disease Through an Interprofessional Model of Care in the Southeastern United States.","authors":"Matthew Fifolt, Connie White-Williams, Alison Hernandez, Elizabeth Blunck, Maria R Shirey, Michele Talley","doi":"10.1097/JAC.0000000000000523","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JAC.0000000000000523","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study explored the perspectives of interprofessional collaborative practice health care providers in 2 clinics in the southeastern United States. The research team conducted key stakeholder interviews with 22 health care providers between 2022 and 2023. Study findings revealed 4 themes: Interprofessional Team Roles, Value of Behavioral Health Integration, Holistic Patient-Centered Focus, and Empathy-Driven Health Care. Health care providers highlighted the importance of the resources available within the team and the role of empathy in establishing trust, respect, and care satisfaction among health care providers and patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":46654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMBULATORY CARE MANAGEMENT","volume":" ","pages":"123-134"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143442034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Welcome to an Expanded Editorial Board at the Journal of Ambulatory Care Management.","authors":"Megan B Cole Brahim","doi":"10.1097/JAC.0000000000000522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/JAC.0000000000000522","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMBULATORY CARE MANAGEMENT","volume":"48 2","pages":"71-72"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143494202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reducing Wait Times in Child and Adolescent Ambulatory Mental Health: A Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement Study.","authors":"James Murphy, Tiffany Banks","doi":"10.1097/JAC.0000000000000514","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JAC.0000000000000514","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Suicide remains a leading cause of death for youth nationally, with access to mental health care continuing to be an emergent care imperative for health care organizations that are struggling to triage and provide critically needed mental health services to the communities they serve. Administrative inefficiencies present a potentially life-threatening delay in access to children seeking mental health care. Health care organizations have successfully used evidence-based process improvement methodologies to improve efficiency and reduce waste, including the Lean Six Sigma methodology. This study highlights the successful use of Lean Six Sigma to create an ambulatory scheduling process that significantly reduced waitlist times and increased timeliness of access to mental health care in a large pediatric hospital.</p>","PeriodicalId":46654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMBULATORY CARE MANAGEMENT","volume":"48 1","pages":"15-24"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142677280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brad Wright, Brianna Lombardi, Jill Akiyama, Andrew J Potter, Lindsay M Sabik, Grace G Stehlin, Amal N Trivedi, Fredric D Wolinsky
{"title":"Health Center Characteristics Associated With Hospital Care Among Medicare-Medicaid Dual Enrollees.","authors":"Brad Wright, Brianna Lombardi, Jill Akiyama, Andrew J Potter, Lindsay M Sabik, Grace G Stehlin, Amal N Trivedi, Fredric D Wolinsky","doi":"10.1097/JAC.0000000000000517","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JAC.0000000000000517","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using 2012-2018 Medicare claims and health center data, we identified factors associated with variation in rates of hospital care among Medicare-Medicaid dual enrollees receiving primary care at health centers. In our sample ( n = 5961 health center-years), we found no evidence that patient-centered medical home designation or other modifiable health center characteristics were associated with reductions in hospital care use, which depends more on health center patient mix. Thus, policymakers should target efforts to health centers serving the most disadvantaged and marginalized communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":46654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMBULATORY CARE MANAGEMENT","volume":" ","pages":"2-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142584768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the Editors.","authors":"Megan B Cole, E Lee Rosenthal, Durrell J Fox","doi":"10.1097/JAC.0000000000000518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/JAC.0000000000000518","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMBULATORY CARE MANAGEMENT","volume":"48 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142962345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the Editors.","authors":"Megan B Cole, E Lee Rosenthal, Durrell J Fox","doi":"10.1097/JAC.0000000000000518","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JAC.0000000000000518","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMBULATORY CARE MANAGEMENT","volume":" ","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142584763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Mixed-Methods Study to Understand Community Health Worker Integration With Health Care Teams.","authors":"Jessica McCutcheon, Iris Cheng, Selina Quinones, Rohan Mahabaleshwarkar, Nancy Denizard-Thompson, Kimberly Wiseman, Yhenneko Taylor, Sherrie Wise Thomas, Deepak Palakshappa","doi":"10.1097/JAC.0000000000000511","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JAC.0000000000000511","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two models employed to integrate community health workers (CHWs) in health care settings are community-clinical linkages and employment within health care. Our objective was to understand the variability in how these models are implemented. We conducted a mixed-methods study across a large health system that included CHW focus groups and electronic health record data on patients referred to the teams. We identified three primary themes in the four focus groups (N = 29) and found differences in the demographics and health care use of the 1,097 patients. Both community- and clinically embedded CHWs reported addressing diverse patient needs; yet, challenges persist in integrating both models.</p>","PeriodicalId":46654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMBULATORY CARE MANAGEMENT","volume":" ","pages":"25-38"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141903152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kevin P Fiori, Samantha R Levano, Silvie Colman, Jason Oliveira, Jessica Haughton, Miya Lemberg, Earle C Chambers, Andrew Telzak, Elizabeth Spurrell-Huss, Adam Sirois, Allison Stark, Andrew Racine
{"title":"Signals in Health Inequity: Examining Social Needs and Costs in a Large Health System.","authors":"Kevin P Fiori, Samantha R Levano, Silvie Colman, Jason Oliveira, Jessica Haughton, Miya Lemberg, Earle C Chambers, Andrew Telzak, Elizabeth Spurrell-Huss, Adam Sirois, Allison Stark, Andrew Racine","doi":"10.1097/JAC.0000000000000515","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JAC.0000000000000515","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous research has demonstrated that social determinants of health are drivers of medical utilization, cost, and health outcomes. In this study, we compared the mean annual total cost to deliver health services per patient by health-related social need (HRSN) status and total HRSNs using linear regression and ANOVA, respectively. Patients with ≥1 HRSN (n = 8409) yielded $1772 higher annual costs compared to patients without HRSNs (n = 34 775) (P < .0001). Compared to patients without HRSNs, delivering care to patients with 1 HRSN (n = 4222) cost $1689 (P < .0001) more and to patients with ≥2 HRSN (n = 4187) cost $1856 (P < .0001) more per year.</p>","PeriodicalId":46654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMBULATORY CARE MANAGEMENT","volume":"48 1","pages":"39-51"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142677281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G Grant Tribble, Nancy M Borkowski, Phaedra S Corso, Allyson G Hall, Kristine R Hearld
{"title":"The Relationship Between Leadership Characteristics and Services Provided Among IHS Urban Indian Health Programs.","authors":"G Grant Tribble, Nancy M Borkowski, Phaedra S Corso, Allyson G Hall, Kristine R Hearld","doi":"10.1097/JAC.0000000000000516","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JAC.0000000000000516","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Urban Indian Health Program was created by the Indian Health Service to establish a culturally appropriate health care delivery model for Native Americans who relocate to urban areas. The 31 community-based Indian Health Programs under the Office of Urban Indian Health Program vary in culture, socioeconomic, and patient mix. Strategic decision-making by these community-based Indian Health Programs depends upon various factors, including leaders' characteristics, organizational characteristics, and service area market factors.</p>","PeriodicalId":46654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMBULATORY CARE MANAGEMENT","volume":" ","pages":"52-68"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142630087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paula Kett, Megan B Cole, Brad Wright, Bianca K Frogner
{"title":"Association of Federal COVID-19 Funding Distributions With Workforce and Capacity in Health Centers.","authors":"Paula Kett, Megan B Cole, Brad Wright, Bianca K Frogner","doi":"10.1097/JAC.0000000000000509","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JAC.0000000000000509","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using novel national data, we examined the association between 2020 federal COVID-related funding targeted to health centers (i.e., H8 funding) and health center workforce and operational capacity measures that may be important for preserving patient access to care and staff safety. We assigned health centers to quartiles based on federal funding distribution per patient and used adjusted linear probability models to estimate differences in workforce and operational capacity outcomes across quartiles from April 2020 to June 2022. We found a nearly 6-fold difference in 2020 H8 funding per patient when comparing health centers in the lowest versus highest quartiles. Despite this difference, health centers' outcomes improved similarly across quartiles over time, with the lowest-funded health centers having the greatest staffing and service capacity challenges. Our findings suggest that COVID-related health center funding may have contributed to stabilization of health centers' workforce and operations. Amid concerns about staff turnover, sustained investments targeted to supporting workforce retention at health centers can help to ensure ongoing delivery of critical services.</p>","PeriodicalId":46654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMBULATORY CARE MANAGEMENT","volume":" ","pages":"258-270"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141903153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}