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Purpose of Study:
We define our community as people who live in Mason, Grays Harbor, Pacific, Lewis and Thurston counties. We collaborate to improve health systems from a patient's perspective. This includes:
- Facilitating easy access to affordable services
- Improved service quality and coordination
- Improved patient outcomes and service effectiveness
CHOICE is fully operational within an annual operating budget of $1,400,000. A nine-member Board of Directors set our strategic direction. A full-time Executive Director reports to a five-member Executive Committee. Nineteen full-time staff and other part-time employees perform activities according to a workplan adopted by the Executive Committee.
Under the Regional Access Program, we:
- Bring local communities together to quantify uncompensated care costs and pool resources to serve the uninsured and underinsured more cost effectively.
- Further identify barriers to appropriate primary care beyond access to insurance from the limited-income consumer and the primary care practitioners' perspectives and facilitate system improvements.
- Reach children without insurance through partnerships with schools and day care centers, and work with parents to enroll them in Healthy Options.
- Provide Medicare supplement application and enrollment assistance to underinsured seniors.
- Explore innovative, community-sponsored alternatives to state-subsidized care for uninsured adults.
- Provide managed care education to consumers on how to select a family doctor; when to access prevention, primary, urgent and emergency care; and the importance of establishing a relationship with a family doctor for health screenings.
- Develop equitable methods for financing uncompensated care.
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