Larry Hogan, Governor
Boyd K. Rutherford, Lieutenant Governor
Robert R. Neall, Health Secretary
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Allan Anderson, MD, Chair
Elizabeth Chung,
Vice-Chair
Scott T. Gibson
J. Wayne Howard
Celeste James
Surina Jordan, PhD
Barry Ronan
Erica I. Shelton, MD
Ivy Simmons,PhD
Julie Wagner
Anthony C. Wisniewski
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Mark Luckner, Executive Director
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WEBINAR:
Sustainably Financing Community Health: Where to Look, When to Pursue, and How to Access Sources of Capital
January 15, 2019 1:30 PM - 3:00 pm
Those seeking to advance and produce community health often struggle to finance this important work - relying primarily on grants. Some of the alternative resourcing options at their disposal are less well known and understood, and each one requires some level of strategic planning, preparation, and engagement to access effectively. Join All In: Data for Community Health for the first of a two-part webinar series covering sustainable financing, alternative payment models, and tools to help you think about and take steps towards sustaining your multi-sector community work. Speakers will discuss a range of key questions and alternative models intended to expand knowledge of, comfort level with, and capacity to take advantage of different sustainable financing options.
For more information and to register, click here.
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WEBINAR:
Connecting Public Health and Food Sector Collaborators: Healthy Menu Innovations in Schools
January 11, 2018, from 2:00 - 3:00 pm
"Connecting Public Health and Food Sector Collaborators: Healthy Menu Innovations in Schools," will highlight goals, approaches, results, and lessons learned from community-level and corporate-level initiatives to reduce sodium and improve the nutritional value of foods served in K-12 schools. Presenters include:
Madelyn Herzog, School Programs Coordinator, Healthy Chelsea;
Scott Richardson, MBA, Co-founder & Partner, Northbound Ventures, LLC; and
Linda Sceurman, National Director of Nutrition, Aramark Education.
For more information and to register for the webinar, click
here.
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WEBINAR: Health in All Policies
January 9, 2019 - 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
NACCHO is hosting a new Health in All Policies (HiAP) webinar series for local health departments. The goal of the webinar series is to provide an open, informal space for dialogue and peer-to-peer sharing about challenges and best practices.
The webinars take place on the second Wednesday of the month, and each month has a different theme. Each webinar in the series will be recorded and posted to
NACCHO's HiAP webpage; however, the best way to ensure your questions are answered is to attend the webinar and participate in the discussion.
For more information, click
here.
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Council on Advancement of School-Based Health Centers submits annual report for 2018
The Council on Advancement of School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs) submitted its
annual report
for 2018 to the Governor and Maryland General Assembly. Key activities of the Council last year include: working with MSDE to revise the annual SBHC report submitted to the state; providing technical assistance to SBHCs around billing third-party payors; and providing recommendations to MSDE to update the SBHC standards.
The Council promotes the integration of SBHCs in health care and educational systems at state and local levels and issues recommendations to improve the health and educational outcomes of students who receive services from SBHCs. The Council is led by its Chair, Kate Connor, M.D., MSPH, and Vice Chair, Barb Masiulis, MS, CRNP, and staff support is provided by the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission. For more information about the Council on Advancement of School-Based Health Centers, click
here.
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From left to right: The Hon. Bonnie Cullison, Member of the Council; Chistina Bartz, PA-C, Choptank; Mark Luckner, Executive Director, CHRC; and Sara Rich, President & CEO, Choptank during a recent tour of Choptank's SBHC in Greensboro.
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Hilltop Institute completes two-year program evaluation of four CHRC grants
The Commission contracted with The Hilltop Institute at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) in FY 2016 to conduct assessments of four CHRC grants awarded that year to determine the extent to which the programs had an impact on health services utilization and costs for participating Medicaid beneficiaries. Hilltop examined the experience of Medicaid participants during a 90-day "baseline" period prior to program enrollment, participation in the program, and the 90-day period immediately following discharge from the program. Hilltop submitted its report to the Commission earlier this year.
Three of the programs targeted individuals with behavioral health conditions and aimed to stabilize program participants, connect them with appropriate community-based services and treatment, and reduce the use of inpatient and emergency department (ED) services:
* Potomac Healthcare Foundation established a 50-bed residential recovery support center in West Baltimore to link individuals with substance use disorder (SUD) who are discharged from the hospital or emergency department with stabilizing care and addiction treatment.
* Garrett County Health Department used telehealth technology to increase access to and improve compliance with medication assisted treatment (MAT).
* Lower Shore Clinic launched CareWrap to provide post-hospital discharge case management services to individuals with behavioral health needs.
Preliminary findings from Hilltop's assessment indicate that all three programs demonstrated some success in getting participating Medicaid beneficiaries into treatment and effecting a shift from hospital-based care to outpatient services and pharmacy treatment.
In the fourth program, the Baltimore City Health Department conducted outreach to vulnerable pregnant women as part of the B'More for Health Babies initiative to connect the women with obstetric and pediatric care. The ultimate goal was to improve birth outcomes and the health of the babies. The program succeeded in connecting vulnerable pregnant Medicaid beneficiaries to the health care system, and preliminary findings indicate that birth outcomes for this group were similar to those for the overall Medicaid population.
Hilltop's summary report on the program assessment is available here:
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Panelists participating in the session included: Mark Luckner, CHRC Executive Director; Dylan H. Roby, Ph.D. Associate Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Health; Katie Phillips, Esperanza Center; Mariana Izraelson, Shepherd's Clinic; Ernest Carter, MD, Deputy Health Officer, Prince George's County.
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In addition, Elizabeth Chung, CEO, Asian American Center of Frederick, received the first ever Health Equity Leadership Award for Community Based Organization award.
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Population health summit highlights innovation under Maryland Model
Earlier this month, the Maryland Department of Health, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, hosted a population health summit, "Innovations Under the Maryland Model." The summit invited a number of national, state, and local health care leaders and included welcoming remarks from the U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams; Maryland Health Secretary Bobby Neall; and Dr. Howard Haft, Executive Director, Maryland Primary Care Program.
A panel moderated by Deputy Secretary for Public Health
Fran Phillips highlighted a number of promising programs that are underway in Maryland that are offering innovative ways to improve population health. One program highlighted was the Lower Shore Clinic, which has received several grants from the CHRC in recent years to expand access to primary and behavioral health treatment services in the community. Lower Shore Clinic CEO Dimitri Cavathas described the "CareWrap" program, an innovative partnership with Peninsula Regional Medical Center that targeted individuals who present at the hospital ED for behavioral health conditions and refers these individuals for care at the Lower Shore Clinic, wrapping them in an array of health and social support services in the community. The CareWrap program was supported with an initial grant from the CHRC of $120,000 in FY 2016 and had a particular emphasis on addressing social determinants of health. CareWrap achieved quantifiable reductions in avoidable hospital utilization among program participants,
generating savings of more than $920,000.
For more information about CHRC grants that involve innovative hospital-community partnerships, click here.
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Atlantic General Hospital launches innovative pain management program
Atlantic General received a grant from the CHRC earlier this year to start a new program to improve the health and wellness of individuals with chronic pain and help reduce the reliance of opioids for pain management. The project, a collaboration with the Worcester County Health Department, provides individuals with the tools to increase overall strength, stamina, and flexibility and promote self-management of pain. Atlantic General leveraged the initial grant from the CHRC to receive an additional $5,000 grant from the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore, enabling the project to build on its integrative health programming and provide Tai Chi and Yoga. Programmatic performance metrics that Atlantic General will report to the CHRC include hospital ED visits and admissions for opioids; reduced (or discontinued) use of opioids for pain management; and number of patients with improved vocational status.
The CHRC grant to Atlantic General is designed to help add to the state's collective response to the opioid epidemic. Click here for other projects that promote access to behavioral health services in the community.
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