Telehealth is a key modality for putting behavioral health and primary care within reach for patients. In recent years, state and federal policy alike shifted to support telehealth access during the pandemic and in response to increasing behavioral health needs. This post spotlights how Alaska and New York, teams participating in the Delta Center's State Learning and Action Collaborative, worked with partners to advance telehealth for their states as one example of state level collective action that ultimately benefits patients.
Alaska faces unique challenges in delivering behavioral health care, given its frontier setting. Amid high demand for services, many communities are remote, requiring providers to travel by plane to reach patients. Meanwhile, outdated regulations have created unnecessary administrative burdens, pulling providers away from critical patient care. Our new video series highlights Alaska Behavioral Health Association's journey to reshape the behavioral health landscape in Alaska.
The Phase 2 Evaluation Report summarizes the progress state associations have made toward advancing policy and practice change during their participation in the Delta Center.
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.
In this blog post, Ariel Singer, who was part of the Delta Center-funded team from Oregon, shares information about Rapid Engagement, a behavioral health access innovation that aims to make it easier for people to get started with services. She details her own experience with behavioral health services as well as one Oregon Health Plan consumer’s Rapid Engagement experience.
This brief arose from the learning session on hot topics in social health. It covers the state of the science on social health screening, strategic frameworks for social health integration, and what’s new in social health in 2023.
A new article in The Milbank Quarterly highlights health centers and the importance of value-based payment (VBP) and health center payment policy reform.
This episode of the Delta Center podcast features John Solomon, LPC, CPHQ, a behavioral health counselor from rural Alaska, discussing the importance of expanding the telehealth system and reimbursement policy to support these services that increase access to care, especially for communities that have been historically marginalized.
The Delta Center hosted a virtual site visit for grantees in partnership with Oklahoma Primary Care Association (OKPCA) and Oklahoma Behavioral Health Association (OBHA). The site visit aimed to showcase collaboration across primary care and behavioral health at state and clinical levels, featuring the OKPCA, OBHA, and patients and providers from federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and community behavioral health organizations (CBHOs), including Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs).
