Bianca K Frogner
Biographic Data
| ID | 5120611 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bianca K Frogner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bianca K |
| FAMILY NAME | Frogner |
| SIGNATURE | FROGNER B K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5120-1828 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Comparing Physicians’ Perceptions of Access to Behavioral Health Resources in Rural and Urban Practices
The role of travel nursing in shifting nursing practice and careers
Occupational Transitions among Direct Care Workers in the United States
The high turnover and low supply of direct care workers have led to worker shortages, and in some cases, an inability to provide needed care for patients across healthcare settings. This was exacerbated during COVID-19. Using the longitudinal panel in the Current Population Survey (CPS), we found that 38 percent of direct care workers transitioned to another occupation at some point during the survey period. The rate of workers making an occupati…
National and State-Level Trends in Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Services at Federally Qualified Health Centers, 2012–2019
Inequitable care delivery toward Covid-19 positive people of color and people with disabilities
This study aimed to explore provider observations of inequitable care delivery towards COVID-19 positive patients who are Black, Indigenous, and Other People of Color (BIPOC) and/or have disabilities and to identify ways the health workforce may be contributing to and compounding inequitable care. We conducted semi-structured interviews between April and November 2021 with frontline healthcare providers from Washington, Florida, Illinois, and New…
Integrating Immigrant Health Professionals into the U.S. Healthcare Workforce: Barriers and Solutions
Changes in Performance Measures and Service Volume at US Federally Qualified Health Centers During the Covid-19 Pandemic
In this cohort study of US FQHCs, nearly all quality measures declined during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with most declines persisting through 2021. Similarly, most visit types declined in 2020; 60% of these remained below prepandemic levels in 2021. By contrast, mental health and substance use visits increased in both years. The pandemic led to forgone care and likely exacerbated behavioral health needs. As such, FQHCs need sustain…
Disability competency training in medical education
Findings support the need for better integration of disability competency training woven throughout medical school curriculum to encourage in-depth understanding about disability. Formal inclusion of the Core Competencies into the Liaison Committee on Medical Education standards can help ensure that disability competency training does not rely on champions or resources
Addressing Systemic Racism in Birth Doula Services to Reduce Health Inequities in the United States
Purpose: Birth doulas support pregnant people during the perinatal period. Evidence of doulas' positive impacts on pregnancy and birth outcomes, particularly among underserved populations, supports expanding access. However, health workforce-related barriers challenge the development of robust doula services in the United States. This study examined the various approaches organizations have taken to train, recruit, and employ doulas as well as th…
Tracking Turnover Among Health Care Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Cross-sectional Study
The findings of this observational cross-sectional study suggest that although much of the health care workforce is on track to recover to prepandemic turnover rates, these rates have been persistently high and slow to recover among long-term care workers, health aides and assistants, workers of minoritized racial and ethnic groups, and women with young children. Given the high demand for long-term care workers, targeted attention is needed to re…
Brief online implicit bias education increases bias awareness among clinical teaching faculty
Implicit bias education is effective to increase providers' bias awareness regardless of strength of their implicit and explicit biases and personal and practice characteristics. Increasing bias awareness is one step of many toward creating a positive learning environment and a system of more equitable healthcare
Examining Wage Disparities by Race and Ethnicity of Health Care Workers
BACKGROUND: Prior studies demonstrated that wage disparities exist across race and ethnicity within selected health care occupations. Wage disparities may negatively affect the industry's ability to recruit and retain a diverse workforce throughout the career ladder. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether wage disparities by race and ethnicity persist across health care occupations and whether disparities vary across the skill spectrum. RESEARCH DESIGN:…
Does the Patient-centered Medical Home Model Change Staffing and Utilization in the Community Health Centers
Our findings suggest that the implementation of PCMH actively reengineers staff composition and this, in turn, results in changes in marginal utilization by each staff type
Incorporating New Research Into Medicare Risk Adjustment
BACKGROUND: The Medicare Advantage payment system underpays health plans that enroll beneficiaries with multiple and complex chronic conditions. OBJECTIVES: This article addresses 3 major problems in the current payment system: (1) underreporting of chronic disease prevalence in fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare claims data, (2) overpayment of healthier and underpayment of sicker beneficiaries in the current payment system, and (3) underpayment for …
Welfare Reform in the Mid-2000s: How African American and Hispanic Families in Three Cities Are Faring
This article reports on a sample of 538 African American and Hispanic women who were receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) in 1999, 416 of whom left the program by 2005. The Hispanic women consisted of a Mexican-origin group and a second group that was primarily Puerto Rican and Dominican. Combining the experiences of the employed and the non-employed welfare leavers, the authors find at best a modest decline in the average pov…
Justice in Health Care Decision-Making: Patients' Appraisals of Health Care Providers and Health Plan Representatives
Welfare Reform in the Mid-2000s: How African American and Hispanic Families in Three Cities Are Faring
This article reports on a sample of 538 African American and Hispanic women who were receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) in 1999, 416 of whom left the program by 2005. The Hispanic women consisted of a Mexican-origin group and a second group that was primarily Puerto Rican and Dominican. Combining the experiences of the employed and the non-employed welfare leavers, the authors find at best a modest decline in the average pov…
Justice in Health Care Decision-Making: Patients' Appraisals of Health Care Providers and Health Plan Representatives
Brief online implicit bias education increases bias awareness among clinical teaching faculty
Implicit bias education is effective to increase providers' bias awareness regardless of strength of their implicit and explicit biases and personal and practice characteristics. Increasing bias awareness is one step of many toward creating a positive learning environment and a system of more equitable healthcare
Justice in Health Care Decision-Making: Patients' Appraisals of Health Care Providers and Health Plan Representatives
Welfare Reform in the Mid-2000s: How African American and Hispanic Families in Three Cities Are Faring
This article reports on a sample of 538 African American and Hispanic women who were receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) in 1999, 416 of whom left the program by 2005. The Hispanic women consisted of a Mexican-origin group and a second group that was primarily Puerto Rican and Dominican. Combining the experiences of the employed and the non-employed welfare leavers, the authors find at best a modest decline in the average pov…
Incorporating New Research Into Medicare Risk Adjustment
BACKGROUND: The Medicare Advantage payment system underpays health plans that enroll beneficiaries with multiple and complex chronic conditions. OBJECTIVES: This article addresses 3 major problems in the current payment system: (1) underreporting of chronic disease prevalence in fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare claims data, (2) overpayment of healthier and underpayment of sicker beneficiaries in the current payment system, and (3) underpayment for …
Does the Patient-centered Medical Home Model Change Staffing and Utilization in the Community Health Centers
Our findings suggest that the implementation of PCMH actively reengineers staff composition and this, in turn, results in changes in marginal utilization by each staff type
Examining Wage Disparities by Race and Ethnicity of Health Care Workers
BACKGROUND: Prior studies demonstrated that wage disparities exist across race and ethnicity within selected health care occupations. Wage disparities may negatively affect the industry's ability to recruit and retain a diverse workforce throughout the career ladder. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether wage disparities by race and ethnicity persist across health care occupations and whether disparities vary across the skill spectrum. RESEARCH DESIGN:…
Addressing Systemic Racism in Birth Doula Services to Reduce Health Inequities in the United States
Purpose: Birth doulas support pregnant people during the perinatal period. Evidence of doulas' positive impacts on pregnancy and birth outcomes, particularly among underserved populations, supports expanding access. However, health workforce-related barriers challenge the development of robust doula services in the United States. This study examined the various approaches organizations have taken to train, recruit, and employ doulas as well as th…
Tracking Turnover Among Health Care Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Cross-sectional Study
The findings of this observational cross-sectional study suggest that although much of the health care workforce is on track to recover to prepandemic turnover rates, these rates have been persistently high and slow to recover among long-term care workers, health aides and assistants, workers of minoritized racial and ethnic groups, and women with young children. Given the high demand for long-term care workers, targeted attention is needed to re…
Brief online implicit bias education increases bias awareness among clinical teaching faculty
Implicit bias education is effective to increase providers' bias awareness regardless of strength of their implicit and explicit biases and personal and practice characteristics. Increasing bias awareness is one step of many toward creating a positive learning environment and a system of more equitable healthcare
Inequitable care delivery toward Covid-19 positive people of color and people with disabilities
This study aimed to explore provider observations of inequitable care delivery towards COVID-19 positive patients who are Black, Indigenous, and Other People of Color (BIPOC) and/or have disabilities and to identify ways the health workforce may be contributing to and compounding inequitable care. We conducted semi-structured interviews between April and November 2021 with frontline healthcare providers from Washington, Florida, Illinois, and New…
Integrating Immigrant Health Professionals into the U.S. Healthcare Workforce: Barriers and Solutions
Changes in Performance Measures and Service Volume at US Federally Qualified Health Centers During the Covid-19 Pandemic
In this cohort study of US FQHCs, nearly all quality measures declined during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with most declines persisting through 2021. Similarly, most visit types declined in 2020; 60% of these remained below prepandemic levels in 2021. By contrast, mental health and substance use visits increased in both years. The pandemic led to forgone care and likely exacerbated behavioral health needs. As such, FQHCs need sustain…
Disability competency training in medical education
Findings support the need for better integration of disability competency training woven throughout medical school curriculum to encourage in-depth understanding about disability. Formal inclusion of the Core Competencies into the Liaison Committee on Medical Education standards can help ensure that disability competency training does not rely on champions or resources
National and State-Level Trends in Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Services at Federally Qualified Health Centers, 2012–2019
The role of travel nursing in shifting nursing practice and careers
Occupational Transitions among Direct Care Workers in the United States
The high turnover and low supply of direct care workers have led to worker shortages, and in some cases, an inability to provide needed care for patients across healthcare settings. This was exacerbated during COVID-19. Using the longitudinal panel in the Current Population Survey (CPS), we found that 38 percent of direct care workers transitioned to another occupation at some point during the survey period. The rate of workers making an occupati…
Comparing Physicians’ Perceptions of Access to Behavioral Health Resources in Rural and Urban Practices
Medicine (11 works) · Health care (9 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Workforce (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works)