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.
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.
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 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.
In 2017, health centers in Washington worked with the Washington Association of Community and Migrant Health Centers (WACMHC) and Washington State Medicaid (Health Care Authority or HCA) to launch a capitated FQHC APM that incorporates quality metrics.
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.
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.