Community health centers and community behavioral health organizations exist in a complex ecosystem. Partnerships can help these providers to thrive while providing quality care, but building partnerships can also be an adaptive challenge requiring changes in values and attitudes. “Soft” skills become essential, whether in truly understanding partners’ priorities, creating “productive disequilibrium” to bring about change, or reframing requests to get a different result. This document shares key takeaways from The Delta Center's third Learning & Action Collaborative in Oakland, CA, in February 2019.
Community health centers and community behavioral health centers are facing a time of unprecedented complexity and uncertainty. There is generally a feeling of building the payment reform plane while flying it — where is this payment reform plane going? This document shares four takeaways from the Delta Center's second convening of grantees participating in the State Learning and Action Collaborative.
In March 2024, the Delta Center for a Thriving Safety Net hosted its final grantee convening in New Orleans, Louisiana, to facilitate peer learning, celebrate achievements, and strategize for sustaining the Delta Center work. This document summarizes key insights from the convening.
This planning guide provides one possible framework to shape the process of organizational transformation needed to prepare for value-based payments (VBPs).
Richard Edley, President and CEO of Pennsylvania’s Behavioral Health State Association RCPA, shares his insights into why value-based purchasing is so important, prior success within Pennsylvania, and concerns for the behavioral heath provider community moving forward.
This brief describes describes four key outcomes of the first phase of the Delta Center, which funded 12 state teams for its first cohort of the State Learning & Action Collaborative. Relationships built through the Delta Center helped support the safety net’s initial response to COVID-19 and will continue to contribute to greater alignment between primary care and behavioral health in future policy and practice changes.
