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"Managed Care and Beyond: Fostering Health in Our Community ".._ <br />Table 2. Working Lunch Results (continued) <br />What are the issues? <br />Uninsured /Underinsured and Managed Care <br />❑ Mobilize local resources in an <br />organized and coordinated way <br />Community -Based Health Alternatives <br />❑ Need for better outreach <br />❑ Increase availability of healthcare for <br />young children <br />❑ Expand community services to rural <br />areas of Orange County <br />❑ Need for more community health cl <br />to meet needs of diverse population <br />In -home Care. Services and Managed Care <br />❑ Ultimate goal: home health is better <br />than institutional care <br />❑ Develop infrastructure <br />❑ Promote easy -to -use point of entry to <br />government and area services <br />What should be done? <br />Facilitator: ??? <br />❑ Use advocate system to help clients <br />❑ Resource guide to help clients <br />❑ Convene meeting with providers for <br />problem solving <br />❑ Look at grants for funding these ideas <br />❑ Strategies to better deal with who shows <br />up as uninsured <br />❑ Consider role of university <br />Facilitator: ? ?? <br />❑ Newsletters to churches about programs <br />❑ Hold programs at church <br />• Identify resources in community and <br />partner with agencies providing services <br />• Transportation <br />❑ Time <br />❑ Educate /motivate parent <br />❑ Better use of existing well -baby clinics <br />and other clinical services <br />❑ Educate /motivate parent <br />❑ Transportation <br />❑ Mobile programs <br />❑ Understand and utilize services of <br />agencies <br />❑ Mobile programs <br />Facilitator: <br />Who will do this? <br />❑ Encourage growth of numbers of trained <br />personnel in Orange County <br />❑ Sponsor quantitative study to see scope of <br />problem <br />❑ Outreach, media and publicity <br />❑ Encouragement of such services as the <br />Department on Aging personal care list <br />❑ Community initiated <br />5 <br />❑ <br />Health insurance <br />❑ <br />Local community - <br />Orange County Board <br />of County <br />Commissioners <br />❑ <br />Orange County Health <br />Department <br />❑ <br />Health Access <br />Coalition <br />❑ <br />IRIS - make available <br />on the web <br />❑ <br />Town /Gown <br />Committee <br />❑ Encourage growth of numbers of trained <br />personnel in Orange County <br />❑ Sponsor quantitative study to see scope of <br />problem <br />❑ Outreach, media and publicity <br />❑ Encouragement of such services as the <br />Department on Aging personal care list <br />❑ Community initiated <br />5 <br />