The agency that determines Medicaid eligibility for low-income children and families, and people who need institutional care.
What is Department of Children & Families (DCF)?
100
A helpline of Palm Beach/Treasure Coast, providing crisis intervention, information, assessment and referral to community services
What is 2-1-1 (of Palm Beach & Treasure Coast)?
100
The largest county in the state of Florida in total area.
What is Palm Beach County?
100
While their roles may differ a bit from one organization to the next, these individuals are generally responsible for building effective working relationships, helping to (re)solve problems, managing information, and directing patients/clients to resources.
What are navigators?
100
Program that can assist low income households, particularly those with the lowest incomes that pay a high proportion of household income for home energy, primarily in meeting their immediate home energy needs.
What is the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)?
200
A state and federal partnership that provides health coverage for selected Florida residents who meet the program’s low-income eligibility requirement.
What is Florida Medicaid?
200
To be eligible for the Emergency Home Energy Assistance for the Elderly Program (EHEAP) which assists low-income households, when the households are experiencing a home energy emergency, at least one individual in the household must be this old.
What is 60?
200
This is a coordinated system of volunteer physician care, hospital care, diagnostic services, and medication assistance for the low-income uninsured residents of Palm Beach County
What is Project Access (administered by Palm Beach County Medical Society).
200
Responding appropriately to a person's unique cultural differences such as race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, physical disability, values and customs.
What is cultural competency?
200
A perpetual grant-making organization dedicated to promoting a healthier population, improving access to care, facilitating development of a coordinated and collaborative health care delivery system, increasing the number of health care professionals trained and serving the County, improving sciences competency among primary and secondary school students, and improving the quality of life from the neighborhood level up by attacking root causes of public health problems.
What is the Quantum Foundation?
300
A Medicaid program for people who have too much income or their assets are over the limits for Medicaid.
What is Medically Needy or Share of Cost?
300
The 2012 minimum wage in Florida?
What is $7.67?
300
A resource here to help seniors and their caregivers find solutions to the many questions and challenges of growing older. Services are available to the entire community regardless of ability to pay.
What is Your Aging Resource Center?
300
Difficulty speaking or reading English.
Difficulty communicating desires and needs.
Cultural beliefs regarding treatment.
Mistrust or fear of the health care system.
Fatalistic feelings about their disease.
What are language and cultural barriers to seeking services or care?
300
A web-based system designed to screen and enroll applicants in multiple publicly funded health programs through a single application.
What is the One-e-App?
400
After receiving disability benefits for 2 years, you will automatically be enrolled in this type of health insurance coverage.
What is Medicare?
400
The amount of coinsurance Medicaid recipients, using the hospital emergency room for non-emergency services, are responsible to pay.
What is five percent (5%) coinsurance on the first $300 of the Medicaid payment?
400
Originally focused on serving migrant and agricultural workers, this organization's mission is now more inclusive as they currently provide health, education, and outreach to the uninsured and working poor.
What is the Caridad Center?
400
The thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic, religious, or social groups.
What is culture?
400
An internet-based personal health record provided by the Florida Medicaid program for all Medicaid recipients in Florida.
What is My Florida Health eBook?
500
The State of Florida’s health insurance program for children. It was created through Title XXI of the Social Security Act and reauthorized in 2009. Through its four partners, including Florida Healthy Kids, the program covers children from birth through age 18.
What is Florida KidCare?
500
Percentage of the federal poverty level that individuals must not exceed in order to be eligible for Project Access.
What is 200%?
500
An independent taxing district that provides for an array of health care services, including: the trauma system; school health; health coverage; hospital; and skilled nursing care.
What is the Health Care District of Palm Beach County?
500
Conflicts between clinic and work schedules.
Not having a car or access to public transportation.
Difficulty arranging reliable transportation.
Living far from treatment facilities (rural areas).
Difficulty finding child- or elder care.
What are physical or logistical barriers to seeking services or care?
500
The color of a Florida Medicaid identification card.