The Impacts of the Affordable Care Act on Preparedness Resources and Programs Workshop Summary (2014) / Chapter Skim
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8 The Continuing Role for Public Health Preparedness and Response
8 The Continuing Role for Public Health Preparedness and Response
Pages 85-98
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• Public–private partnerships are becoming increasingly important to achieving preparedness goals. Collaborations could, for example, enhance public health capacity in threat assessment, immunization tracking, and medical countermeasures dispensing.
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provided a mental health response team of approximately 25 persons to help Boston increase its capacity to support the mental health needs of those impacted. As mentioned previously in the report, more than 200 mental health support sessions were coordinated in the city of Boston and in surrounding areas, and thousands of individuals were served, with support from service providers from HHS, the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, Red Cross, Salvation Army, and a number of other partners.
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There is also investment in community health centers through the ACA, which can be leveraged to augment the emergency response infrastructure. In addition, there should be more clinical data and other information available that will inform public health preparedness and response, and help to identify those populations at risk who may have a variety of special needs.
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, a logistics model suggested problems with the timing of acquiring product from the SNS to coordinate with the demand. A pilot program described by Dean tracks prescription drug use by the most vulnerable residents and works with public and private providers to coordinate pharmaceutical care services for these individuals during a crisis.
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To help address this registry reporting issue and to facilitate better and more accurate data-sharing capability, Surescripts developed a simplified immunization registry reporting solution that provides one connection point to multiple local registries. The reporting solution manages local variances in messaging and field requirements, provides error message tracking and reporting, and manages the traffic loads.
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Direct Relief works to strengthen local health efforts and help fill critical gaps by working with private partners to donate essential material resources, including medicines, supplies, and equipment. Direct Relief is the only U.S.
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Ninety-six percent responded that they still expect to use PAPs fairly extensively as an essential resource after the implementation of the ACA, because the coverage gaps will not be completely eliminated. Another Direct Relief activity described by Schroeder is assessing the need for charitable influenza vaccine donations for safety net health centers.
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. Improved pre-hospital and trauma care at a regional level on a day-to-day basis may be positively affected by the ACA and could also have implications for surge management and regional disaster response.
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As the multiple provisions of the ACA work toward building a more coordinated health care delivery system, emphasizing integration of services, managing population health, and promoting value-based purchasing payment models, this could be an opportune time for building social capital and including community agencies in improving health outcomes. This is where there are very good alignments among health reform efforts, population health management, and good disaster management principles, Priest said.
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If a state health department can work with ACOs, vaccines can be delivered in a mass setting to a much larger group much more effectively, and perhaps lessen the need for local health departments to run vaccination clinics when they are often resource poor. However, he noted, New York State has not really engaged ACOs yet in pandemics or other emergency situations.
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. Benjamin asked participants to envision a future where everyone has an insurance card, where data move freely, and where all of the integrated health systems are doing individual preparedness planning for their facilities, as well as coordinated preparedness planning for their communities.
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