National Health Policy Forum

Issue Brief

No. 746
Date: SEPTEMBER 13, 1999
Title:
The Nursing Center in Concept and Practice:
Delivery and Financing Issues in Serving
Vulnerable People
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Author: Karen Matherlee
Summary: This issue brief looks at ways in which nurse-managed centers — with support from the Health Resources and Services Administration and private foundations — are carving a role in providing preventive and primary care to vulnerable populations. Two case studies — one in Philadelphia and the other in the Utah-Nevada border area — llustrate nursing centers' mission, outreach, services, workforce, payment concerns, and educational tie-ins.
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