Community Voices Council Looking for New Members
/We are recruiting for our Community Voices Council. Anyone thinking they would be a good fit and wishing to be a voice in our community is welcome to apply.
Read MoreWe are recruiting for our Community Voices Council. Anyone thinking they would be a good fit and wishing to be a voice in our community is welcome to apply.
Read MoreMaterials from the Trauma-Informed Approaches (TIA) training.
Read MoreWe are now accepting applications for new board members. We are looking for leaders who want to be a part of making positive changes in healthcare for our community.
Read MoreEmpire Health Foundation’s (EHF) Board of Directors has announced the resignation of its President, Antony Chiang. Antony has accepted the role of Chief Executive Officer for Dogwood Health Trust of Asheville, North Carolina, a health conversion foundation. Antony will remain with EHF through mid-September when Jeffrey Bell, current Chair of the EHF Board, will be appointed Interim President while the EHF Board has conducts a search for Antony’s successor. Read the announcement here and view the press release here.
The BHT Executive and Governance committees will be working with EHF leadership over the next couple of months to ensure there is a smooth transition.
Alison and the rest of the BHT team wish Antony the best of luck in his exciting new adventure!
See summaries of notable Technical Council and Board activities and decisions for July 1, 2019 - July 31, 2019
Read MoreDirector of Equity and Engagement, Hadley Morrow, speaks as the lead panelist on our ACH efforts at Better Health Together.
Read MoreOur Executive Director, Alison Poulsen, gives a health update, single-payer and universal coverage health systems report, and update of future meetings.
Read MoreOverview of Trauma Informed Approaches (TIA) and Motivational Interviewing (MI) trainings in August and September.
Read MoreMaterials from the Lunch & Learn on Collaborative Care Billing.
Read MoreResources for the Rural Collaboratives’ Equity Project process.
Read MorePaying for value survey is live until August 30th. As part of our Semi-Annual Reporting to the State to earn our ACH dollars, HCA needs all of our Partnering Providers (those currently in or about to enter into contract with BHT) to complete the survey.
Read MoreBHT was awarded a $1.15M grant to be dispersed over 3 years towards a Healthier Kids program.
Read MoreAfter many hours of meetings, we have landed on a set of strategies to tackle for our Equity Gap project! Thank you for the incredible work and participation that has gotten us to this point. It feels like we are right on the edge of an unprecedented collaboration, and I am so excited to see what we will accomplish when we all focus our energy together! This is an incredible chance for us to learn together how to tackle health inequities.
Here you will find the Partner-Level Collaborative Equity Activities Form for you to fill out with your organization. We made a few changes based on feedback from our June session, a few things for you to know:
There are three priority areas, but you are only required to submit one (1) activity.
You can find the Priority Areas, Strategies, and other resources including meeting notes here.
We are not requiring you to link activities to a performance measure at this time – we still need to do a little work to refine the measurements we came up with in June and figure out.
We’ve asked for an estimated cost for these activities. We acknowledge that it can be hard to come up with an activity without knowing how much money will be available to support. We also brainstormed quite a few low-cost and no-cost ideas throughout our process. We promise there will be dollars allocated to the Spokane Collaborative to support the equity projects, but BHT needs some more info on what you all hope to accomplish so we can request the right size of funding.
We added one section for you to quickly explain why you think your activity will help close the equity gap. This can just be a few sentences.
Next Steps:
Please take this form back to your team and discuss what priority area and strategy your organization wants to support.
Bring this completed form to the July 18th meeting so we can finalize our action plan. Our hope is you will bring this form signed by your organizations leadership to signal your commitment to this activity. If you are not able to get by-in from leadership on this quick timeline we understand, but please come to the July 18th with the content of the form filled out and an idea for an activity to discuss with your peers.
At the July 18th meeting we will share out the activities, and discuss a plan for ongoing governance and evaluation of our activities.
If you have any questions at all, please contact Hadley Morrow at hadley@betterhealthtogether.org.
BHT holds a vision of health equity for our region, where no one has negative health outcomes as a result of their identity, environment, or experiences. Making this vision a reality will require that each of us who make up the institutions that are impacting health in Spokane think critically about how we can disrupt patterns of behavior that leave people feeling excluded or stigmatized. This is often emotional and personal work, and we just want to say thank you for being willing to engage. These courageous conversations will make the region a better place to live.
Thank you!
See summaries of notable Technical Council and Board activities and decisions for June 1, 2019 - June 31, 2019
Read MoreWe will be hosting an open house for prospective Community Voices Council members. Please join us!
Read MoreOur Network Analysis Survey is now live! Please take the time to visit the survey link and help us gather information about our healthcare network. Every survey response enters you to win $1000 for your organization.
Read MoreHighlighting Toni Lodge’s presentation to our Board of Directors about The NATIVE Project and Native healthcare.
Read MoreMaterials for the August Cohort individual Transformation Plan workshops.
Read MoreBetter Health Together has been selected as the Apparently Successful Vendor for Spokane, Ferry, Pend Oreille, Whitman, Adams, Lincoln, and Stevens counties for the next 5 years.
Read MoreRecording and slides from the June 11 webinar, which covered the revised August Cohort template, Aims statements, and Milestones.
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