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States, Primary Care and Health Centers: Fostering Delivery System Changes
Affordable Care Act | Federally Qualified Health Centers | System performance

NASHP convened a June 2011 forum in Denver, Colorado, that brought together state and federal officials, primary care offices and associations and other key partners to learn from Colorado’s efforts and discuss health centers’ roles and challenges in delivery system reform. This report frames key issues, themes and...

Lynn Dierker, Senior Program Director
November 2011
Re-Forming Health Care Delivery Systems: A Summary of a Forum for States and Health Centers
Affordable Care Act | Federally Qualified Health Centers | System performance

In June 2010, the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) convened a forum to examine evolving model approaches as well as surface new strategies that could be promoted with federal and state policymakers, foundations and the health center community to help progression...

Mary Takach, Program Director
March 2011
Linking Children to Services: Building on Community Assets to Pilot Test Improvement Strategies
Care coordination | Children's coverage | Linkages

The five states participating in the third Assuring Better Child Health and Development (ABCD) learning consortium have gone through an extensive planning process to set the stage for implementation of interventions to improve coordination among providers serving children in pilot communities. This document describes 1) how Arkansas,...

Carrie Hanlon, Program Manager
December 2010
A Tale of Two Systems: A look at State Efforts to Integrate Primary Care and Behavioral Health in Safety Net Settings
Federally Qualified Health Centers; Mental Health | Primary care
Integrated behavioral health and primary care occurs when behavioral health specialty and general medical care providers work collaboratively to address patients' physical and behavioral health needs. Federal community health centers are uniquely positioned to partner with the community mental health system to deliver integrated care, and to...
Mary Takach, Program Director
Kitty Purington, Policy Specialist
May 2010
Collaborating with Health Centers to Leverage HIT for System Improvement
Federally Qualified Health Centers | Information technology | System performance
Early in 2010, NASHP hosted a webinar that brought together individuals from Massachusetts, Oregon, and Tennessee with experience in collaborating with health centers around Health Information Technology (HIT) activities to discuss ways in which state agencies and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) are working together to use HIT and...
Shaun Alfreds
April 2010

State Primary Care and Health Policy Teams