Opioid Response Task Force
Accepting applications to join our Opioid Response planning team now until April 17th.
ACH
Project Selection Process
Now requesting Letters of Interest for Medicaid Demonstration Project Proposals
HCA Public Forum
On Sunday March 12th, we welcomed the Health Care Authority to the Philanthropy Center for a Public Forum on Medicaid Demonstration. We want to thank the nearly 50 folks who attended for taking time out on a Sunday to talk Medicaid! If you missed it, HCA will be giving one final Public Forum through a …
Alison’s Musings
Well, the excitement of securing the Medicaid Transformation Demonstration (formerly known as the Waiver) has worn off and you might hear some deep breathing at BHT as we figure out how to move forward on these interconnected health projects to achieve the highest impact. This work was always going to be challenging, but when you …
LOI – Office Hours
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Whitman County
Better Health Together has always considered Whitman county a part of our region. In our programmatic arm, DENT and the Navigator Network both serve Whitman, and the county falls within the service bounds of Empire Health Foundation. However, when ACHs were designated the boundaries were drawn to match the Regional Service Network from which counties …
Medicaid Demonstration Toolkit Overview
To the best of our abilities in a 45 minute time slot, at our 1/25/17 Leadership Council meeting, Alison gave an overview of the projects outlined in the Medicaid Demonstration Toolkit. This Toolkit is open for public comment until 5PM February 2nd, we strongly encourage you to get together with some peers (it’s 78 pages…), …
Forward into a new year
I’m fresh back after some time off to celebrate the holiday. As I reflect on 2016, it was a big year of planning and preparation. We established our health priorities, created community strategy maps and selected a regional pilot project. We convened, discussed and aligned. Though, when I look back, I find myself unsatisfied with …
BHT Community Strategy Development Timeline
Throughout 2016, we hosted multiple series of community feedback sessions where we worked to learn and build out our community’s perspective on regional health improvement strategies. January Regional Gathering:In January we hosted our first iteration of Community Linkage Mapping, an exercise we have been building and refining throughout the year where participants inventory their organizational …
September Leadership Council Recap
ACH Updates This meeting featured updates on our Community Action Strategy Teams, our ACH Pilot Project, and Governance Structure. We have slides from these presentations available here. We were thrilled to share out our updated Strategy Maps for Social Determinants of Health and Population Health. Our Community Action Strategy Teams were meeting all summer to help …