U.S. Physicians Knowledge About the Americans with Disabilities Act and Accommodation of Patients with Disability: Considerable Improvements Needed January 4 Health Affairs article Learn more here. Integrating Primary Care and Public Health To Save Lives and Improve Practice During Public Health Crises: Lessons from COVID-19 December 22 PCC shared Johns Hopkins Univ School of PH […]
Persons Dually Eligible for Medicare and Medicaid: Addressing the Care Fragmentation Crisis November 1 University of Chicago NORC webinar slides Learn more here. Initiating Cross-Sector Partnerships To Advance Population Health December 10 ASTHO shared November 23 ASTHO report Learn more here. Medicaid Home-and-Community-Based Services: Targeting and Tailoring Income and Resource Disregards December 7 CMS State […]
Newly Revised Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals November 17 Public Health Foundation and Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice revised competencies Learn more here. Persons Dually Eligible for Medicare and Medicaid: Guaranteeing Integrated Care November 18 Bipartisan Policy Center briefing and report Learn more here. Assessing Progress with Person-Centered Requirements in […]
The Direct Support Workforce and COVID-19: What We Know and What We Need To Do November 10 Univ of MN ICI and NADSP webinar slides Learn more here. The Mental Health of Medicare Beneficiaries with Disabilities During the Pandemic November 11 Council on Quality and Leadership article Learn more here. Longer Participation in a Medicaid […]
Cross-Agency Partnerships for Health Equity: Medicaid and Public Health Agencies November 4 RWJ Fd funded, CHCS and ASTHO announced brief Learn more here. Persons Dually Eligible for Medicare and Medicaid: Raising the Bar and Supporting State Efforts To Integrate October 28-29 MACPAC (Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission) meeting discussion paper Learn more here. […]
Streamlining and Simplifying State Home-and-Community-Based Services (HCBS) Authorities October 26 Bipartisan Policy Center report and briefing Learn more here. Money Follows the Person – Mandated MACPAC Analysis October 28 MACPAC (Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission) mandated analysis Learn more here. Community-Based Long Term Services and Supports: Are the Needs of Older Adults and […]
CMS Launches Webpage To Share Innovative State Actions To Expand Medicaid Home-and-Community-Based Services (HCBS) October 21 CMS announcement Learn more here. Workforce Displacement and Re-Employment During the COVID-19 Pandemic – Implications for Direct Care Recruitment and Retention October 21 Hartford Foundation shared PHI report Learn more here. Workers with Long COVID-19 and the Americans with […]
AAHD has joined the Mental Health Liaison Groutp (MHLG) advocating enactment of legislation to remove the 190 day lifetime Medicare limit on inpatient psychiatric hospital treatment. Available here are he October 18 letters to House and Senate. […]
Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccination Status, Intent, and Perceived Access – By Disability Status October 1 CDC MMWR report Learn more here. Challenges and Opportunities for Strengthening the U.S. Public Health Infrastructure: Findings From a Scan of the Literature October 5 National Network of Public Health Institutes shared June 16 report Learn more here. Dollars and […]
Disability, Health Equity, and COVID-19: Infographics September 21 NIHCM Foundation infographics Learn more here. Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) – Disability Community Statement September 21 Disability and Rehabilitation Research Coalition (DRRC) submitted statement in response to the Congressional SDOH Caucus request for information (RFI). AAHD was actively involved in providing ideas and text to the […]