AUCH Provider Resource Center - Non Profit Management

Fiscal

Kaiser Family Foundation
Trends in Health Care Costs and Spending

The Commonwealth Fund
Value-Driven Health Care Purchasing: Four States Ahead of the Curve

Creating Payment Systems to Accelerate Value-Driven Health Care: Issues and Options for Policy Reform

Help in Producing Patient Education Materials

Utah Department of Health Center for Multicultural Health
http://www.health.utah.gov/cmh/language.htm
Description: Utah Department of Health has compiled a number of great resources for meeting the challenge of language barriers in health care.

National Cancer Institute
Designing Print Materials: A Communications Guide for Breast Cancer Screening

http://www.appliedresearch.cancer.gov/ibsn/publications/guide.html

Description: This great resource discusses creating patient education print materials. Although designed in the context of breast cancer screening, the discussion of health education theories, such as health belief and planned behavior models, are broadly applicable and very useful in designing (if a source doesn't already exist) materials suitable for patient education.

Organizations

National Association of Community Health Centers

State Coverage

New SCI Publication on Health Insurance Connectors and Exchanges

New Publication on Efforts to Expand Coverage to the Uninsured

Health Spending by State of Residence (1991-2004)