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Last Updated:
03/12/09 09:00:24 AM
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Health Planning |
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Health
Planning performs the following: reviews HMO licensure
applications, reviews HMO expanded service requests,
determines quality, and accessibility of healthcare
services, and monitors certain HMO activities; reviews and
processes Letters of Intent and Certificate of Need
applications for healthcare facility construction; provides
health data and technical assistance to public entities,
private entities, and the general public; compiles the
Healthy People 2010 Nevada report, which is based on
national Healthy People 2010 objectives.
The Primary Care
Office is a program of the Nevada State
Health Division that works to improve the health care
infrastructure of Nevada. The Primary Care Office supports the State Health
Division's mission to promote the health of Nevadans by
working to:
- Improve access
to primary health care services for Nevada's underserved
- Increase
availability of primary care providers in underserved
areas
- Increase
access to maternal and child health care service for
underserved populations
- Improve
provider access to health care financing resources
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