UMMC ahead of curve on uninsured FQHCs
by Amy McCullough
Published: August 1,2010
Tags: Emergency Room, FQHCs, Health Department, healthcare reform, Healthy Linkages, Michael Jones, Mississippi Healthy Linkages Project, Mississippi Primary Health Care Association, patient referral, UMMC, University of Mississippi Medical Center
In Sept. 2008, the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson began an innovative program to match Emergency Room patients with preventative care physicians in medical homes. Now the hospital believes it is seeing positive results. UMMC sees more than 100,000 ER patients a year. More than 30,000 of those patients are uninsured, and about [...]
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August 1st, 2010 at 5:26 pm
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