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States Build Capacity to Address Maternal Mortality through Policy Innovations

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from maternal-related causes , with more than 80 percent of these deaths being preventable. HFS has named maternal and child health as one of its five quality strategy pillars and requires its Medicaid MCOs to report results by race, ethnicity, and geography. Over 800 women die each year in the U.S.

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First Do No Harm

Briggs Healthcare

What’s worse, a considerable portion of this is preventable. Prior to COVID-19, progress was being made to improve patient safety. However, since the beginning of the pandemic, patient safety performance significantly declined. And we hold facilities accountable when they fail to meet those standards.

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Expanding the Perinatal Workforce through Medicaid Coverage of Doula and Midwifery Services

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Monitor and evaluate quality improvement and outcomes and address barriers to care. The project is supported by the Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant, the Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant, and the Mid-Iowa Health Foundation. Implement quality and performance initiatives.

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Behavioral Health System Modernization along the Continuum

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The commission was created in the New Hampshire Legislature in 2000 (NH RSA Chapter 12-J), which established the Alcohol Fund, directing a part of proceed from sales of alcohol to prevention, harm reduction treatment, and recovery services. An action plan dashboard tracks targets.

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Administration Strengthens Oversight of Nation’s Poorest-Performing Nursing Homes

Briggs Healthcare

Today’s announcement is part of a series of new actions the Biden-Harris Administration is taking to increase accountability of bad actors in the nursing home industry, improve the quality of nursing homes and make them safer. Below is an excerpt from that Press Release.

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Primary Care Case Management in Medicaid: A Strategy for Supporting Primary Care in Rural Areas

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Perhaps the most important is to identify specific goals and objectives early on to guide the details of design, such as the choice of quality metrics for incentive payments. In addition, it is important to build in measurement at the start and to think of state efforts as iterative — moving to tackle new priorities as performance improves.