Access To Medical Care
Johanna Lund, PhD, Health Consultant
Jan Corirossi, Medical Society

Mission:
To identify barriers to access and to examine appropriate interventions to address and ease those barriers.
Work Plan:
Members of the project team have identified 10 barriers: 1) economics; 2) language and culture; 3) geographic; 4) Medicare/Medicaid; 5) provider limitations; 6) customer service; 7) specialty referral access; 8) education; 9) frail, elderly; and 10) child care. The team has examined each barrier in detail to define appropriate interventions. Four focus areas have been defined for follow-up: Economic Barriers, Medicaid, Customer Service, and Education.