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Identify What Works at the National, State and Local Levels
Community Care of North Carolina's Public Private Partnership Initiative
Community Care of North Carolina adapted its successful primary care medical home model for use with pregnant Medicaid beneficiaries. (NC)
A Healthier America 2013: Strategies to Move from Sick Care to Health Care in Four Years
Identifies high-impact steps that the nation can take to prioritize prevention and improve Americans' health, and stresses the importance of taking innovative approaches and building partnerships in order to be effective.
Primary Care and Prevention: State Roles in Delivery System Reform
Provides states with strategies for improving primary care and public health. The authors identify opportunities for working across these fields to accelerate progress in controlling costs. (NGA, CH. 3)
Integrating Public Health, Mental Health, and Primary Care
Promising practices of state health agencies and local health departments to assure services and seamless care. (KS and TN)
Collaboration with Community Health Centers for Preparedness
Provides a resource for those interested in strengthening their response efforts through collaboration and to motivate those who have not yet pursued collaboration across agencies and organizations. (CA, MA, AR, AL, ME, NY, WA, NJ, IN, MN, NB)
Developing Partnerships with Community Health Centers
Highlights the value of developing effective partnerships between SHAs and CHCs in preparedness planning. (AL, CA, NY)
Accountable Care Community in Akron, OH
Represents a wonderful model for significant integration and provides both outcomes data and cost savings data from their initial work on diabetes. Here is a link to their white paper. (OH)
New Opportunities for Integrating and Improving Health care for Women, Children, and their Families
Highlights efforts of Colorado, Florida, Ohio, and Vermont to integrate health care services for low-income women and children, especially through state Title V maternal and child health programs. (CO, FL, OH, VT)
North Dakota Case Study: Public Health and Primary Care Integration
Provides two examples of how one state has taken significant steps towards primary care and public health integration, and demonstrates the benefits and impact this integration has had on communities in North Dakota. (ND)
Community Partnership Uses Chronic Disease Risk Factors to Reduce Chronic Disease Risk Factors
Describes a project where a primary care center, the county health department, community organizations, and lay health advisers jointly developed and implemented a variety of activities designed to reduce risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes in a low-income, largely African-American population. (NC)
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