Health centers are strongly positioned to achieve the Triple Aim – improved patient experience and population health, with reduced total health system costs per capita – within low-income and underserved populations nationwide.
This grantee spotlight highlights the achievements of the New Mexico Primary Care Association (NMPCA) & Behavioral Health Providers Association of New Mexico (NMBHPA) as part of the Delta Center's 2018–2020 State Learning & Action Collaborative.
By July 2024, the Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas will conclude a nearly 5-year effort to transition all its 26 Licensed Community Mental Health Centers into Certified Community Behavioral Health Centers. To learn more about the Kansas Delta Center team’s efforts to bring the CCBHC model to life, we interviewed Michelle Ponce, Associate Director of AMHCK.
The Community Health Care Association of New York State and New York State Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare leveraged their existing relationship developed under the Delta Center grant to create a unified voice to influence the state's telehealth policy.
In this brief, we describe the process by which primary care associations and behavioral health state associations built and strengthened their partnerships during Phase 1 of the Delta Center's State Action and Learning Collaborative, and offer high-level recommendations for other PCAs and BHSAs that seek to develop partnerships to advance policy and practice.
This grantee spotlight highlights the achievements of the Texas Council of Community Centers as part of the Delta Center's 2018–2020 State Learning & Action Collaborative.
To provide the best possible care to patients and thrive in new payment environments, community health centers (CHCs) and community behavioral health organizations (CBHOs)— two pillars of the safety net—are redesigning their workflows, infrastructure, and partnerships.
This grantee spotlight highlights the achievements of the Association of Oregon Community Mental Health Programs (AOCMHP) and Oregon Primary Care Association (OPCA) as part of the Delta Center's 2018–2020 State Learning & Action Collaborative.
This brief from JSI and the Delta Center for a Thriving Safety Net illustrates five key insights related to program design and evaluation from the productive partnership between the Partnership HealthPlan of California and local community health centers to create a care coordination (CCM) program.
Drawing from our work with 12 primary care associations through the Delta Center, this brief outlines three key policy steps to help health centers survive in the short term and thrive beyond the COVID-19 crisis.