Safety Net Primary Care Capabilities After the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) provide care to 30 million patients in the US and have shown better outcomes and processes than other practice types. Little is known about how the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to FQHC capabilities compared with other practices.

Objective

To compare postpandemic operational characteristics and capabilities of FQHCs with non-FQHC safety net practices and non-FQHC, non-safety net practices.

Design, setting, and participants

This nationally representative survey conducted from June 2022 to February 2023 with an oversampling of safety net practices in the US included practice leaders working in stratified random selection of practices based on FQHC status, Area Deprivation Index category, and ownership type per a heal

SUBMITTER: Schifferdecker KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11329874 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature