title: Louisiana Rural Health Access Program.
abstract: Louisiana Rural Health Access is part of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation project to address primary and preventive medical care for indigent, uninsured people residing in underserved rural parishes. This 15-month grant funds the development of a pilot program to improve access to health care in Acadia, Evangeline, Iberia, Lafayette, St Landry, St Martin, St Mary, and Vermilion parishes. Led by representatives from the Department of Health and Hospitals and the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, team committees designed the program's innovative use of telemedicine, loan development, network integration, and community involvement. A benefit of the program will be to measure the outcomes of each objective in order to determine which intervention works best. This information will be invaluable for the design of a five-year rural health care development plan.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, USA.
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authors.lastname: LeBlanc
mesh_terms: D002202:Capital Financing; D019058:Community Networks; D003256:Community Participation; D006285:Health Planning; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D008145:Louisiana; D008507:Medically Underserved Area; D017057:Medically Uninsured; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010865:Pilot Projects; D016730:Program Development; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D017216:Telemedicine; D017664:Uncompensated Care