Tonight, Pastor Stephen Johnson and the volunteers from United Methodist Church, on 3rd and Howard, will transport folks to the warming center located at the Salvation Army from 7:15-8:15 pm. They will return to the warming center at 6:45-7:45 am to transport folks back to the United Methodist Church. If you know someone who needs a …
As we approach this season of Thanksgiving, it is timely to pause and thank those who have contributed to BHT’s success over the past year.
A free immunization clinic will be hosted during this year’s Festival of Trees. Children who bare a sleeve for their MMR, HepB, Polio, Diphtheria, Pertussis or Varicella vaccines will receive 5 raffle tickets for their troubles and pokes.
I love Spokane. My family and I feel blessed to live in a place that is filled with beautiful landscape, amazing people and an independent spirit that makes things possible. There is a secret sauce in Eastern Washington that makes our Accountable Community of Health work. We are not waiting to be told what to do; we are making it happen.
Behavioral health conditions, including mental illness and substance use disorders, are widespread among Medicaid’s high-need, high-cost recipients, many of whom also have chronic physical conditions.
At Better Health Together, we pride ourselves on being a team of tenacious problem solvers. We are always looking for ways to improve and be more effective at what we do. Here are some of our favorite reads over the past few months. Enjoy!
Since Better Health Together’s inception roughly two years ago, we have been looking for scalable and proven solutions to improve the health of our region.
Eleven of our rural hospitals in Washington State have agreed to collaborate on the formation of a statewide Accountable Care Organization (ACO). If you are wondering what an ACO is, here’s a good primer.
As we dive deeper and deeper into the Accountable Community of Health work, we all keep
wondering—how are we going to measure this stuff? How are we going to demonstrate change? What is the benchmark on this data? We are fortunate in our region to have a solid Data Center at Spokane Regional Health District, but we cannot do this alone.
At Better Health Together, we pride ourselves on being a team of tenacious problem solvers. We are
always looking for ways to improve and be more effective at what we do. Here are some of our favorite
reads over the past few months. Enjoy!