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Our Grants and Work Plan
The Hawaii Primary Care Association began the project in 1999 through funding from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. AlohaCare, Hawaii State Department of Human Services, HMSA Foundation, and NFL Pro Bowl Charities currently fund our project.
1. Reduce Number of Uninsured Children and Youth
- Continue links with natural points of contact such as schools, pharmacies, community health centers, WIC, Head Start, youth clubs, and child care centers;
- Work with task force members to target these groups: adolescents, young adults, immigrants, grandparents raising grandchildren, businesses, labor unions, associations, medical students (nurses, physicians, and dental hygenists), and hospital emergency rooms;
- Conduct annual Back-to-School media outreach campaigns; and
- Establish systematic health insurance enrollment for 100% of eligible newborns.
2. Coordinate Information about Health Insurance Programs
- Maintain and update our web site;
- Conduct training workshops for community and state agencies on Med-QUEST's enrollment process and completing the applications; and
- Sponsor annual conferences for outreach workers and Med-QUEST supervisors.
3. Simplify Med-QUEST's Enrollment and Renewal Processes
- Continue our hotline service through Aloha United Way 211;
- Help eligible households overcome barriers established by new Federal citizenship laws;
- Develop flyers in Fijian, Kosraen, Tahitian, and Chamorro;
- Simplify letters sent by Med-QUEST's Eligibility Brnach to its customers;
- Create a video on completing the children and pregnant women application and make it available on our web site;
- Support Med-QUEST's improved customer service;
- Strengthen links between outstationed eligibility workers and Med-QUEST offices; and
- Expand electronic application use.
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