BH Forum resources – April 2021
April Topics: Licensure supervision funding proposal, HCA & Comagine Performance Measure study
Public Policy
Request for Proposals: Telehealth Access
We’ve released a Request for Proposals (RFP) inviting applications from contracted partners connected to or providing behavioral health services for projects that will help reduce barriers for patients accessing telehealth behavioral health services during COVID-19. Individual awards of up to $20,000 per partner are available until the $300,000 available is expended. Learn more and apply by April 16th priority funding deadline!
Word of Mouth Vol. 2 Iss. 3 – March 2021 Newsletter
Word of Mouth Vol.15 March 2021 Newsletter
Social Care Network
Spokane Collaborative Meeting Materials – March 18, 2021
Agenda Full slide deck 2021 Collaborative MOU 2020 Spokane Collaborative Charter Coffee date survey – tell us who you’d like
Kidney Health & Fluoride
Kidney Health & Fluoride
Smile Spokane is committed to educating the public about community fluoride benefits and addressing concerns raised by opponents. Experts don’t support claims that water fluoridation is harmful to kidney health or people with kidney disease.
What do the experts say?
Community Care Hub, Social Care Network
Collaborative Leads meeting notes & materials
2021 03.2021 Leads notes COVID Trusted Messenger Outreach slides 2020 12.2020 CCT/Leads notes 08.2020 CCT/Leads notes 02.2020 CCT/Leads notes 01.2020
BHT Team News
Recruitment Open for BHT Board Positions
BHT is recruiting to fill open seats for our Rural Public Health and Managed Care representatives. BHT will prioritize BIPOC representation, gender diversity, people with lived experience, and age diversity for service on the Board. These two appointments will be a modified term running until the formal end of the Medicaid Waiver.
COVID Response Strategy Approved by Board
The BHT Board of directors unanimously approved a total of nearly $1.3M for a robust COVID response strategy. This decision will kick off a busy spring for our team and the many partners we will be working with to get this work off the ground.
Community Voice, Social Care Network
Racial Disparities in Oral Health
Smile Spokane and our partners work to eliminate oral health disparities in our region and our work is far from done. Many of these disparities result from historically racist health care policies that deny access and quality care to non-white people in the United States. When you look at the data it is an undeniable reality.
BHT Serving as Regional Hub for Care Connect Washington
BHT facilitates support for Adams, Ferry, Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Spokane, and Stevens counties through the pandemic by providing community-based care coordination for individuals who need to quarantine in our COVID-19 Care Coordination role with Washington (DOH). The Care Connect program, which launched today, will help individuals and households overcome barriers and circumstances that make it difficult for them to complete isolation and quarantine successfully.