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ARTICLES
Patient Safety: Rejecting the Status Quo
Arthur A. Levin, MPH
Improving Diabetes Care among Low-Income North Carolinians: Project IDEAL
Ronny A. Bell, PhD, MS, Fabian Camacho, MS, Vanessa T. Duren-Winfield, MS, Denise E. Bonds, MD, Roger T. Anderson, PhD, Joseph C. Konen, MD, MSPH, David C. Goff, Jr., MD, PhD
Accommodating a New Medical Profession: The History of Physician Assistant Regulatory Legislation in North Carolina
E. Harvey Estes, Jr., MD, and Reginald D. Carter, PhD, PA
POLICY FORUM: The North Carolina Healthcare Safety Net
Introduction
Gordon H. DeFriese, PhD, and Kristie Weisner Thompson, MA
Issue Brief: The North Carolina Healthcare Safety Net, 2005-Fragments of a Lifeline Serving the Uninsured
Pam Silberman, JD, DrPH, Carmen Hooker Odom, MRP, Sherwood Smith, Jr., JD, Kristen L. Dubay, MPP, Kristie Weisner Thompson, MA
Open Letter
From Governor Michael F. Easley
COMMENTARIES
Federally Qualified Health Centers: Providing Healthcare to North Carolina's Communities in Medical Need
Sonya J. Bruton, MPA
North Carolina State Government and the Healthcare Safety Net: Building the Nation's Most Extensive Network of Rural Health Centers
Torlen L. Wade, MSPH, and Andrea D. Radford, MHA
Free Clinics in North Carolina: A Network of Compassion,Volunteerism, and Quality Care for Those without Healthcare Options
Olivia Fleming, MA, and John Mills, CAE
Local Physicians Caring for Their Communities: An Innovative Model to Meeting the Needs of the Uninsured
Gillian K. Baker, MHA, Alan T. McKenzie, and Paul B. Harrison, MPH
The Hospital Emergency Department: An Anchor for the Community's Healthcare Safety Net
Jeffrey S. Spade, CHE
Our Healthcare System Is Failing
J. Douglas Yarbrough, MBA
Public Health Departments: The Under-funded Provider of Last Resort
George F. Bond, Jr., MPH, and Wanda L. Sandele, MPH
Pharmaceutical Companies Meet the Needs of the Poor and Uninsured: An Important Element in the Healthcare Safety Net
J. Andrew Hartsfield IV, JD
Free Prescriptions? Yes, There Is a Way!
Margaret P. Elliott, MPA
Integrating Multiple Service Providers in Service to the Poor and Uninsured: The Critical Conditions for Effective Collaboration
Thomas G. Irons, MD
Rising Student Health Needs Require a School Safety Net
Leah M. Devlin, DDS, MPH, and Marilyn K. Asay, RN, MS
AHEC Teaching Clinics in Service to the Uninsured
Thomas J. Bacon, DrPH
Who is at Risk of Losing Safety Net Healthcare?
Adam G. Searing, JD, MPH
DEPARTMENTS
Take Note
Running the Numbers
Reader's Forum
Classified Advertisements
Index of Advertisers
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