State Health Watch Archives – October 1, 2007
October 1, 2007
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Denver Health's success at integrated care lauded as 'learning laboratory'
Denver Health—Colorado's largest health care safety net provider—is being lauded as a model system for promoting a culture of continuous quality improvement, adopting new technology and incorporating it into everyday practice, taking risks and making mid-course corrections, and providing leadership with accountability. -
Fiscal Fitness: How States Cope: States take new direction in encouraging healthy lifestyles for Medicaid recipients
It's well accepted that a key strategy for improving population health is for people to adopt healthier lifestyles. Is there anything state governments can do to encourage citizens to live healthier? -
Medical 'homes' improve access, quality, and equity
Responses to the Common-wealth Fund's 2006 Health Care Quality Survey demonstrate the importance of having stable insurance, a regular health care provider, and a medical home for improving health care access and quality among vulnerable populations. -
SCHIP sails on with a narrow focus
Founded in 1997, the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) has evolved from broad-based efforts to raise general program awareness to a tighter focus on specific hard-to-reach groups, researchers report. -
Program helps docs improve prescribing for Medicaid patients
A program funded by Eli Lilly in 19 states is improving the quality of care Medicaid patients receive by aligning physician prescribing of mental health medications with national, evidence-based best prescribing practices. -
Clip files / Local news from the states
Nebraska is poised to dramatically increase the number of diseases for which newborns are screened, all the while holding fast to a policy that forbids parents from opting out of the testing.