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As New Jersey implements legislation to expand contraception access, state officials are focusing on cross-sector and interagency collaboration. Public sector leaders in other states working to expand access to reproductive health services can explore lessons learned and key takeaways in a new report from ASTHO and Center for Health Care Strategies: https://lnkd.in/ee2AA_9y. #ReproductiveHealth #FamilyPlanning #HealthEquity NJ Department of Health

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https://lnkd.in/ekuJtgW4 Examples here of what is happening at the state and federal level to advance respite care, which we must support through any transitions. States are employing various means of reaching diverse and needy families through single touch points and coalitions with other entities such as faith-based organizations. I was happy to see that academia was mentioned at least in one example as part of coalition building. Also mentioned are recruitment strategies for building respite workforce. Some states are hitting all the right buttons and these should serve as models for other states, and also for expanding help to other areas beyond respite. The best way you can ensure innovative programming at the state and federal level is to let your legislators know that these are priorities. These efforts require financial support. #newagingpartnership #caregivingconfidential #respite #nationalacademyforstatehealthpolicy #caregiving

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As #BlackMaternalHealthWeek wraps up, it's important to note that addressing maternal health disparities is crucial 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫-𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝. Maternal health equity for people of color is one of our priorities. This year, we plan to develop a blueprint for maternal health equity in Connecticut, informed by those with lived experience and those who work in the field. This is a new area of focus for CT Health, and we are excited to listen and learn, so that together we can work toward a future where 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 has a healthy pregnancy and birth. Learn more about this area of our strategic plan here: https://lnkd.in/e8NemBEP

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Make no mistake about it, if Project 2025 is allowed to become a reality, it will have devastating impacts for many communities in the country. "In the Heritage Foundation’s far-right policy manifesto, Project 2025, MAGA extremists call on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to impose “targeted time limits or lifetime caps on [Medicaid] benefits.” This would mean that once a person has been on Medicaid for a set amount of time—potentially over the full course of their life—they could lose eligibility for Medicaid coverage, regardless of their financial situation. Similar policies have previously been introduced, including a proposal to impose a 36-month lifetime maximum for Medicaid coverage. If Project 2025 were enacted, it could cause devastating coverage losses. In 2021, 18.5 million Medicaid beneficiaries, or 20 percent of enrollees, were not aged (younger than 65), blind, or disabled (ABD)—meaning they qualify for Medicaid based on income alone. These individuals would be most at risk for losing their coverage—and with it, their access to affordable health care—if arbitrary lifetime limits were implemented.*"

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🌟 Advocating for the Future of Community Health Centers 🌟 In the latest NACHC update, we see how Congress determines CHC funding, from mandatory funding cycles to discretionary appropriations. This funding directly impacts: ✅ Expanded access to primary care ✅ Infrastructure investments ✅ Workforce retention and growth At CHC Pros LLC, we understand how funding uncertainty can disrupt planning, care delivery, and innovation. That’s why we’re here to help CHCs optimize resources, streamline operations, and improve patient outcomes, even during periods of financial ambiguity. 💡 Pro tip for CHC leaders: Stay ahead by preparing robust performance data that showcases your clinic’s impact. Demonstrating value and outcomes is key to advocating for sustained and increased funding! Let’s continue working together to secure a healthier future for all. #FQHC #CommunityHealthCenters #CHCFunding #HealthcareAdvocacy #CHCProsLLC #NACHC

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Effectively addressing social determinants of health (SDOH) and promoting health equity in communities requires an intentional focus on cross-sector partnership among public health, health care, and community-based organizations (CBOs). In the blog post, Unlock the potential of cross-sector SDOH partnerships with intentional collaboration, we'll describe structures that cross-sector partnerships can put in place to set themselves up for success. To read the entire blog post, please visit the Getting Further Faster website: https://ow.ly/nMKy50S9XFz

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Effectively addressing social determinants of health (SDOH) and promoting health equity in communities requires an intentional focus on cross-sector partnership among public health, health care, and community-based organizations (CBOs). In the blog post, Unlock the potential of cross-sector SDOH partnerships with intentional collaboration, we'll describe structures that cross-sector partnerships can put in place to set themselves up for success. To read the entire blog post, please visit the Getting Further Faster website: https://ow.ly/nMKy50S9XFz

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📣 The Planning and Dissemination (P&D) Grants have launched! The P&D Grants are intended to provide support for planning and/or dissemination activities (either virtual or in-person). IHSPR is thrilled to support activities on the following prioritized topics: o Integration of care o Primary care and home, community, and long- term care. o Health workforce o Digital health solutions o Equitable, accessible, anti-ableist, anti-racist, anti-discriminatory, diverse and/or inclusive health care delivery systems and/or service delivery models o Advancing sustainable, climate-resilient and/or low-carbon health care systems, organizations, and service delivery models. o Advancing the theories, methods and approaches that underpin the science of HSPR Furthermore, two grants are reserved for pan-Canadian conferences that provides opportunity for the entire HSPR community to benefit from and engage in networking, research collaboration, and knowledge mobilization across a broad range of HSPR priorities. Application Deadline: August 7, 2024 Learn more: https://buff.ly/45kHj0n

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Explore how #Medicaid supports school-based health care in Ohio, ensuring students have access to essential health services where they learn in this new paper from Health Policy Institute of Ohio https://lnkd.in/e-E7Y-jP

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Amplifying this resource on community engagement to advance health equity. Social justice movements are most effective when people with lived experience drive and shape the changes they want to see in their own communities. Many organizations value community engagement, and yet it can be difficult to do well. One of our Senior Consultants, Shahla de Leon, shares some of her reflections from the field, and this publication highlights similar lessons.   What practices are others are observing that contribute to effective community engagement? #CommunityEngagement #HealthEquity

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When discussing the lack of access to healthcare in rural America, behavioral healthcare is often left out. Rural communities face a disproportionate lack of access to healthcare. However, their patient population needs and deserves access to not only healthcare, but quality healthcare, that meets their needs. This includes behavioral healthcare. This is one great example of how to do it right. By providing quality behavioral healthcare in rural communities, and personalizing care to the needs of the patient population, we can ensure comprehensive care. Without offering this range of care, or curating healthcare opportunities to the needs of patients in the community, healthcare falls short of the quality the community needs. Do you agree? #RuralHealthcare #healthcare #BehavioralHealthcare

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Quality in health care and equity in health outcomes are inextricably linked. Our team, along with taskforce members, have compiled practical approaches to demystifying bringing together quality and equity.

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ECCHO is so proud to be lifting up the importance civic health and civic engagement! Check out this fantastic webinar by HealthBegins https://lnkd.in/ec2Rmirv Through state waivers and national demonstration projects, Medicaid is increasingly becoming a mechanism to address social needs and advance health equity. Yet one critical and powerful component of health equity is often going unnoticed by innovators: civic engagement. When communities have access to participation and enfranchisement, they can influence the structures and conditions that shape their health. And we know inequities in political enfranchisement and inequities in health are interrelated. As such, civic engagement is a social determinant of health equity. In this webinar, expert panelists will highlight examples of how innovative healthcare providers and plans are already leveraging Medicaid to make civic engagement a part of their health equity portfolio. You’ll learn how to make the case for investing in voting and civic participation as part of a broader health equity strategy, and gain insight into how these new efforts could develop and expand in the future. Speakers: • Rishi Manchanda, MD, MPH, CEO, HealthBegins, (host) • Manisha Sharma, MD, FAAFP, Co-Founder Civic Health Alliance • Douglas Hess, Ph.D., Director of Research, American Physical Therapy Association • Lizette Escobedo, Vice President of Government Relations, AltaMed Health Services Webinar goals: By the end of the webinar, attendees will be able to: • Explain how civic engagement and political enfranchisement is a significant determinant of health equity, particularly for Medicaid beneficiaries • Make the case for health care’s role in facilitating civic engagement and enfranchisement • Identify mechanisms and opportunities within Medicaid that can be used to support civic engagement and enfranchisement among patient populations. • Apply strategies and innovations that are already in use through Medicaid to support civic engagement and enfranchisement among patient populations.Transcript

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Explore The Intersection’s resource library to learn how to increase collaboration in your anti-racist efforts. It’s packed with tangible examples of how leaders from advocacy and healthcare are advancing their work.    Check out the latest resource—‘Built to Last: A National Strategy to Cultivate Partnerships Between Healthcare and Communities’: https://bit.ly/45MtmIF  What resources have been helping you move your work forward?

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How might health companies move from supplying health to preventing it? Is there a model for bolstering population health by catalyzing community building? The Greater Rochester Health Foundation offers an example of what is possible. It aims to boost heath outcomes by focusing on enhancing #community capacity to produce #health in both urban and rural #neighborhoods. Importantly, it takes long-term view (10 plus years) and does not impose specific predefined outputs or outcomes. Instead, the Neighborhood Health Improvement Initiative supports resident groups and community animators to reweave the neighborhood social fabric--increasing collective efficacy and social support networks in the process. The foundation explains why it adopts an "asset-based, grassroots efforts to improve the physical, social, and economic environments of neighborhoods" in the Greater Rochester area as follows: "Our daily lives and the neighborhoods in which we live them—where we raise our families, work, and play—along with our personal health habits, affect health in countless and complex ways. Some neighborhoods support health and healthy behaviors better than others. In healthy neighborhoods, we feel safe walking outside, can access green space for recreation and physical activity, and we can purchase and eat healthy, affordable food. Healthy neighborhoods are free of abandoned housing that attracts crime and are places with trusted neighbors to turn to when in need." Deborah Puntenney offers more detail: "an inner-city community....The people who are involved are neighborhood residents, individuals, families. They’ve come together in block clubs, they have a neighborhood council. But these are informal groups, none of these are 501(c)3s except for the organization that actually received the grant, which is a CDC.... They finished their asset map and then they met as a community and they had identified several issues that they wanted to work on. Healthy eating, healthy exercise, and doing something about the open air drug market that had plagued their community for about 30 years.... Today when you go through the neighborhood, people comment all the time, this neighborhood group has managed to build community gardens, it has a developed a park and playground, it has completed a major trail going all the way through Rochester and right through the neighborhood. It has launched educational opportunities, it’s got numerous activities for seniors, for youth. It has developed major partnerships, and by that I mean between neighborhood residents, the mayor, the police, the courts, the judges, the district attorney, anybody you can think of they are partnering with. There’s been massive community change in this area. Thanks to Cormac Russell for suggesting this example. #rochester #relationships Placemaking Education Danya Pastuszek Sarah Strimmenos Amanda Jamison Shawn Duncan Sam Pressler Frances Kraft PlacemakingX Reyn Archer MD

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On Friday, three of our four staff attended the Perinatal Quality Collaborative for Maine's (#PQC4ME) annual conference in Augusta. We've included some staff reflections below: #POLICY 🗳 : Reversing the effects of decades of chronic underinvestment in perinatal outcomes will require strategic, policy-level advocacy work in Maine. #COLLABORATION 🤝 : Improving Maine's perinatal health metrics demands a coordinated, collaborative, and multi-sector response to patient voices. It is imperative that the healthcare system, the legislature, community-based organizations, and perinatal professionals (in particular #doulas) work together. #MAINESUCCESSES 🌲 : Strategic leadership and orchestration is well underway in Maine, with growing opportunities for #qualityimprovement expertise from all sectors. #TESTIMONY & #STORIES 🗣 : To influence the outcomes and change the minds of policy-makers and legislators, we need testimony from those most impacted and harmed by the lack of investment and protections. Coaching on the effective delivery of stories from those with actual lived experiences is the next step. A very special thank you to the PQC4ME team for putting on an A++ conference. The inspiration at Birth Roots Center for Community Supported Parenting abounds! 🌱

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🌟 Citizen Advocates and its affiliated network of organizations are once again trailblazing a path to provide person-centered health and social supports throughout Northern New York. 🌟 Why is this important? Our newly released 2023 Annual Impact Report dives into the healthcare disparities our rural region has struggled with for years, and how our network of providers – including Citizen Advocates and St. Joseph’s – are working together to ensure vulnerable populations are gaining greater access to high-quality, person-centered care. 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️ As trailblazers, it means we tackle the large health and social challenges affecting our region. Whether it’s 24/7 behavioral health urgent care, stable housing, eliminating barriers faced by someone with a disability seeking employment or combining the talents and resources of two esteemed addiction treatment providers, we embrace the big challenges with bold solutions. ☀️⛰️🌲🏠 👉 To watch or read the stories of our success in 2023, click here: https://lnkd.in/efuCJS5i. #ImpactReport #SpreadingOurWings #CitizenAdvocates

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