This brief covers insights from a session on Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) that took place during the September 2022 Delta Center convening. It begins with takeaways for states considering CCBHCs, followed by a primer on the specialized clinics.
This brief summarizes key challenges faced by the rural ambulatory safety net in delivering primary care and behavioral health services since COVID-19 and the policy changes that have been implemented in response to those challenges. It also offers state-level policy recommendations to improve rural-specific primary care and behavioral health care through sustaining and supporting the movement towards telehealth, addressing social needs, and advancing value-based payment and care.
For Community Health Systems, Inc., a midsize health center in Southern California, joining Health Center Partners of Southern California was a game changer.
This case study profiles the Community Health Center Network (CHCN), a health-center-led managed care organization (MCO), through the perspective of two of the smaller health centers in the group (Axis Community Health and Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center).
Advancing payment and delivery reform in the ambulatory safety net in rural areas presents unique challenges and will require solutions specific to this context, for both primary care and behavioral health.
This case study examines the experience of Southern Prairie, a 12-county collaboration in rural southwestern Minnesota that has facilitated the integration of health care services and community supports through accountable care approaches, which includes a Medicaid accountable care organization (ACO) and a nonprofit center that implements initiatives to address major population health issues.