HRSA Community Access Program: Resource Guide of Products and Tools Selected Inventory

FOREWORD 
Increasing access to health seIVices, particularly for vulnerable populations, has been the policy focus of several federal and private demonstration initiatives in recent years. Many of these program efforts have been engaged in rethinking the organization of local care delivery through the creation of new models structured to increase access to care, improve efficiencies, and reduce system fragmentation. Examples of such seIVice models include those that place more providers within underserved communities, promote seIVice integration and encourage seamless care delivery systems, and those that formulate case management approaches for special populations. More programs targeted at improving capacity at the local level through strengthening the existing health delivery infrastructure are evolving as access to health care delivery is an increasing problem for more and more Americans. 

The Community Access Program (CAP) builds upon existing models that promote the organization and financing of new health delivery systems that serve the uninsured and underinsured. Funded in FY 2000, CAP grantees were charged with improving efficiencies among safety net providers, encouraging greater private sector involvement, eliminating fragmented delivery systems, and increasing enrollment in health coverage plans. Using a broad-based community consortia design, this initiative is expected to help implement sustainable new delivery systems that manage care, promote prevention and early intervention, and improve the level of integrated services. 

Examples of measurable grantee progress resulting from CAP funding include coalition-developed products and tools. This guide is representative of the products and tools developed through this grant period by CAP grantees. As of this writing, respective coalitions are at different stages of development, therefore all funded grantees have not provided tools for the resource guide. This document provides a sample of tools developed under this federal initiative. For the purpose of organization as well as comparison, all CAP products and tools in this guide have been inventoried and assigned to ten distinct categories. To date, three rounds of CAP grantees have been funded, however, the products reflected within this report were provided by funded grantees from the first two cohorts only.