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Community Health Teams Are Helping Medicaid Programs Manage Care for High-Need Patients
 To provide more effective and efficient care for beneficiaries with complex health needs, Medicaid programs in some states have turned to a form of resource-sharing known as community health teams to augment the capacity of physician practices. Comprising professionals from a range of fields, from nursing and behavioral health to pharmacy and social work, these local community-based networks may be a viable way to reduce health care costs and improve quality, while enabling resource-strained practices to offer an array of comprehensive medical home services.
In a new report from The Commonwealth Fund and the National Academy for State Health Policy, Mary Takach and Jason Buxbaum examine multidisciplinary community health team programs in eight states that serve a combined 2.1 million Medicaid beneficiaries. The report sheds light on how the programs came about and how they operate, what their sources of financing are, and how they use data to assess effectiveness.
Visit www.commonwealthfund.org to learn how shared-resource models like community health teams can enable smaller primary care practices to thrive under new payment models that demand value and accountability.
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Addressing Substance Use Disorders in Men
The physical, psychological, social, and spiritual effects of substance use and abuse on men can be quite different from the effects on women. Those differences have implications for treatment in behavioral health settings.
TIP 56: Addressing the Specific Behavioral Health Needs of Men presents the specific treatment needs of adult men with substance use disorders. TIP 56 reviews gender-specific research and best practices, such as common patterns of initiation of substance use among men and specific treatment issues and strategies.
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Effective Therapies for the Aging Addicted Population: Treating Boomers & Beyond
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OASAS Client Data System (CDS) and Medicaid Data webinar. May 30- 1:00 - 2:00 No registration required, just log in: 1. Please join my meeting. https://www3.gotomeeting.com/join/440449118 2. Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended. Or, call in using your telephone. Dial +1 (805) 309-0010 Access Code: 440-449-118 Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting Meeting ID: 440-449-118 |
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CLMHD Calendar
JUNE
Officers and Chairs
June 12th
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
call in only
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Mental Hygiene Planning
June 13th
11:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
41 State Street
Suite 505 Albany - Go To Meeting Will be Available.
CLMHD COMMITTEE DAY
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Albany Airport Best Western
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The New York State Conference of Local Mental Hygiene Directors advances public policies and awareness for people with mental illness, chemical dependency and developmental disabilities. We are a statewide membership organization that consists of the Commissioner/ Director of each of the state's 57 county mental hygiene departments and the mental hygiene department of the City of New York.
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Join the Conversation on the SAMHSA's GAINS Center Virtual Learning Community!
SAMHSA's GAINS Center's Virtual Learning Community is an online forum established to foster conversation, information sharing, and dialogue among the various SAMHSA-funded grant projects supported by the GAINS Center and the larger behavioral health and criminal justice communities.
For the SAMHSA grantee programs, this learning community provides a venue to discuss project management, peer involvement, implementation, obstacles, and innovation with one another.
For others passionate about behavioral health and criminal justice, this community provides a space to share ideas on topics such as trauma-informed care, and obtain and access a variety of resources that may improve the way you do business.
To join the GAINS Center Virtual Learning Community. Click here.
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Visualizing Health Policy: The Role of Medicaid and Medicare in Women's Health Care
The latest in the Visualizing Health Policy infographics series marks National Women's Health Week with an infographic on the role of Medicaid and Medicare in women's health care.
The Visualizing Health Policy infographics series is produced in partnership with the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Each month's infographic is freely available on JAMA's website and published in the print edition of the journal. Previous Visualizing Health Policy infographics are also available on the Kaiser Family Foundation website.
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Cuomo Exempts High-Paid Health Execs
Many of New York's nonprofit hospitals specialize in supersized pay, and new rules reining in publicly funded salaries are unlikely to change the equation.
Starting in July, following an executive order signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the New York State Department of Health and a dozen other state agencies intend to cap employee compensation at $199,000 for organizations that receive 30 percent or more of their total annual revenue from state sources.
These organizations would also be barred from using more than 25 percent of their state money for administrative expenses, dropping to 15 percent by 2015.
Though the rules have gone through four different iterations over the last year and a half, one group has conspicuously remained out of its likely reach: highly paid administrators and clinical staff at hospitals.
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Why Is Psychiatry's New Manual So Much Like The Old One?
Unlike cardiology and most other fields of medicine, psychiatry still hasn't developed discrete, biological tests for diagnosing illnesses of the mind. That's because the brain "hasn't yielded its secrets yet," one psychiatrist says. Read.
Suburbs' Share of Poor Has Grown Since 2000
The number of poor people living in America's suburbs now surpasses those in cities or rural areas. Long focused on the urban poor, social service agencies are now trying to respond to the basic needs of a much more far-flung population. Read.
 An alternative census estimate shows that more of America's seniors than originally thought are living in poverty - and that means the poverty rate could spike under certain Medicare reforms, a new analysis finds. Read.
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Administration marks $100M for effort to cut disability rolls
 A consortium of agencies are piloting a grant program that is intended to guide children receiving federal disability benefits to better life "outcomes," according to the Department of Education.
The Promoting the Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE) aims to disburse about $100 million in fiscal year 2013 for two, and possibly three, years. After that, funding depends on states' matching funds. The Department of Education is spearheading the program.
The program will reward states that "improve outcomes" for families and children that receive federal income assistance, and competition will likely be fierce - only three to six states will receive funding. State governments will disburse the federal grants, averaging $37.5 million for five years, to agencies as approved by the state's governor. They are expected to work toward improving the lives of children and adults receiving SSI subsidies, which are provided to low-income families that have a child with a severe disability. Read.
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 How To Improve Family Drug Court Services With Best Practices
Guidance to States: Recommendations for Developing Family Drug Court Guidelines provides a blueprint on implementing evidence-based practices in family drug court services. With support from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Children and Family Futures partnered with leading drug court organizations and practitioners to synthesize the results of a national review of family drug court policies and practices, and relevant research literature. The new guidelines provide a roadmap for states and local jurisdictions to implement evidence-based practices in family drug courts.
Rapidly growing across the Nation, family drug courts provide an effective response to serving high-risk families affected by substance abuse and child maltreatment. Well-functioning family drug courts bring together substance abuse treatment, mental health, and social services agencies to work with the court and attorneys to meet the diverse needs of these families. The courts also provide intensive judicial monitoring and interventions to treat parents' substance use disorders and address their effects on children. The goals of the family drug courts are to ensure that children are safe and have permanent caregiving relationships.
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Discover how communities are strengthening linkages among child welfare, mental health services, substance use treatment, and the court systems to improve outcomes for children and families. Watch the Video
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