Strategies to increase enrollment, awareness and outreach to the uninsured

emilio

What strategies would you recommend to increase enrollment, awareness and outreach to the uninsured?



jybarra
June 4, 2009 - 8:49pm
California Latino Medical Assn. Policy Cmte

Use of medical home and medical teams, including promotoras, community health workers, that showcase insurance options and demonstrate welcoming and encouraging health care environment that would empower Latinos through health education and support and opportunities for healthy behaviors/choices. These supports include insurance plans that provide transportation, translation, nutrition, physical therapy, dental and counseling services.

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Jessica Nunez de Ybarra, MD, MPH



erios
June 5, 2009 - 12:50pm
Promotoras in Medical Offices/Clinics

How do you propose increasing the infrastructure needed to have promotoras adopted in the medical delivery system - especially for the safety net ---certifying the training of promotoras for use in medical offices and clinics, for example.