Chronic and Complex Populations

NASHP Resource Hub: State Strategies to Address Palliative Care

June 25, 2020/in Policy Reports, Toolkits Care Coordination, Chronic and Complex Populations, Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, Community Health Workers, Cost, Payment, and Delivery Reform, Featured Policy Home, Health Coverage and Access, Health System Costs, Long-Term Care, Medicaid Managed Care, Palliative Care, Physical and Behavioral Health Integration, Population Health, Workforce Capacity Chronic and Complex Populations /by Natalie Williams, Kitty Purington and Rachel Donlon

Palliative care helps individuals with serious illness better manage the symptoms and stressors of disease. These services are interdisciplinary, person- and family-centered, and can help people at any stage of a serious illness.
States are uniquely positioned to influence how Americans think about access, and experience palliative care.

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States Craft Collaborative Approaches to House the Homeless and Curb COVID-19

July 13, 2020/in COVID-19 Ohio Behavioral/Mental Health and SUD, Blending and Braiding Funding, Chronic and Complex Populations, Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, COVID-19, Health Equity, Housing and Health, Physical and Behavioral Health Integration, Population Health /by Eliza Mette and Jodi Manz

People with substance use disorders (SUD) who are experiencing housing instability or homelessness are particularly at risk during the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving states challenged more than ever to identify effective housing strategies that can simultaneously address the complex treatment needs of people with SUD while also curbing the spread of COVID-19 in congregate settings.

States Redesign Home Visiting Programs for a Telehealth World during COVID-19

July 6, 2020/in COVID-19 Michigan Blogs, Featured News Home Care Coordination, Chronic and Complex Populations, Community Health Workers, COVID-19, Health Equity, Integrated Care for Children, Integrated for Pregnant/Parenting Women, Maternal Health and Mortality, Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health /by Taylor Platt

As families face immense stress from the pandemic, states have rapidly reworked their home visiting programs to continue to support women and children. Because face-to-face services, including case management and family support and counseling, are no longer an option, health departments now deliver these vital services by telehealth. But with this new operating platform, states […]

Six States’ Strategies to Providing Home Health Services to Children Enrolled in Medicaid

July 6, 2020/in Policy Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Maryland, Ohio, Washington Blogs, Featured News Home Children/Youth with Special Health Care Needs, Children/Youth with Special Health Care Needs, Chronic and Complex Populations, Community Health Workers, COVID-19, Health Coverage and Access, Health Equity, Integrated Care for Children, Long-Term Care, Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health, Physical and Behavioral Health Integration, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health, Workforce Capacity /by Olivia Randi and Kate Honsberger

To improve the quality of services for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and reduce health care costs, states are implementing strategies to improve access to home health services. Of particular importance as states confront COVID-19-related budget challenges, home health services can help to avoid costly emergency department use, hospitalizations, and institutional […]

State Approaches to Providing Home Health Services to Children with Medical Complexity Enrolled in Medicaid

July 6, 2020/in Policy Care Coordination, Children/Youth with Special Health Care Needs, Children/Youth with Special Health Care Needs, Chronic and Complex Populations, Community Health Workers, COVID-19, Health Coverage and Access, Health Equity, Integrated Care for Children, Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health, Workforce Capacity /by Kate Honsberger, Ellen Bayer, Anna Matilde “Tilly” Tanga and Karen VanLandeghem

NASHP Resource Hub: State Strategies to Address Palliative Care

Family Caregiving Council Receives Public Input and Expertise to Create Recommendations

June 22, 2020/in Policy Blogs, Featured News Home The RAISE Family Caregiver Resource and Dissemination Center /by Paige Spradlin, Salom Teshale and Wendy Fox-Grage

The Family Caregiving Advisory Council held its third full council meeting on May 20 and 21, 2020, to hear presentations on key topic areas, including family leave, respite care, research and data, and an analysis of the input received from the Administration for Community Living’s (ACL) request for information. The council also refined its Driver Diagram to identify […]

Toolkit: National Standards for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs

June 11, 2020/in Policy Toolkits Behavioral/Mental Health and SUD, Care Coordination, Children/Youth with Special Health Care Needs, Children/Youth with Special Health Care Needs, CHIP, Chronic and Complex Populations, Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, Cost, Payment, and Delivery Reform, Eligibility and Enrollment, EPSDT, Featured Policy Home, Health Coverage and Access, Health Equity, Health IT/Data, Healthy Child Development, Integrated Care for Children, Integrated for Pregnant/Parenting Women, Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health, Medicaid Managed Care, Medicaid Managed Care, Physical and Behavioral Health Integration, Population Health, Quality and Measurement, Social Determinants of Health /by NASHP Staff

The National Standards for Systems of Care for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) define the core components of a comprehensive, coordinated, and family-centered system of care for CYSHCN.

NASHP Awards Contracts to National Alliance for Caregiving and Advancing States to Support the RAISE Family Caregiving Council with Funding from The John A. Hartford Foundation

June 2, 2020/in Policy The RAISE Family Caregiver Resource and Dissemination Center /by NASHP Staff

To better address the needs of family caregivers, the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) has awarded contracts to National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC) and ADvancing States. Under the contracts, ADvancing States will conduct listening sessions with state aging and disability officials and NAC will hold a listening session with family caregiver advocates and to collect family caregiver vignettes. These activities […]

National Standards for CYSHCN One-Pagers Showcase Most Utilized Domains

June 1, 2020/in Policy Featured News Home Children/Youth with Special Health Care Needs, Children/Youth with Special Health Care Needs, Chronic and Complex Populations, Integrated Care for Children, Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health /by NASHP Staff

Q&A: A Deep Dive into New York’s Drug User Health Hubs with New York’s Allan Clear

May 18, 2020/in COVID-19 New York Blogs, Featured News Home Behavioral/Mental Health and SUD, Chronic and Complex Populations, Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, Health Equity, HIV/AIDS, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health /by Eliza Mette

The COVID-19 pandemic poses unique risks to people with opioid use disorder (OUD). Overdose risk increases when using individuals are in isolation and injection drug users are at higher risk of COVID-19 mortality due to increased rates of other infectious diseases and negative health effects from substance use.