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REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE. Watch this webinar to learn how to integrate medical care with home- and community-based programs and leverage new billing opportunities to provide case management services. This webinar will outline all components required to create and/or consider a new program and a new line of business. Create better outcomes for patients/participants while reducing utilization of costly hospitalizations and emergency room visits through close patient monitoring and rapid medical response. Address provider shortages and health disparities using non-physician providers in the home setting to create relationships and bring healthcare to the patient. Utilize community health workers, social workers and registered nurses along with pharmacists, nurse practitioners and medical director to implement care plans with patients to stabilize their health and support aging in place. Participants in this webinar will be able to: Identify the key areas required to build a medical care programming Define common Medicare-covered services that can be developed Understand the utilization of non-physician practitioners to address a provider shortage Demonstrate the value of case management paired with home- and community-based services and medical care, resulting in improved patient outcomes. Presenters: Pam Curtis is the CEO for Senior Resources of West Michigan and has held a variety of positions within the agency over the past 31 years. With minds on the mission, she and the staff at Senior Resources have been seeking to improve quality and outcomes, develop new business opportunities to diversify their revenue streams and improve the service array for all older adults. Kim Vazquez has been with Senior Resources of West Michigan for more than 12 years, developing various programs during her tenure. Most recently she developed the Primary Care at Home program with her team of medical providers and staff.

REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE. Funded by The John A. Hartford Foundation and the RRF Foundation for Aging, NASHP’s RAISE Family Caregiver Resource and Dissemination Center is hosting this webinar to discuss state policies to improve the quality and supply of the direct care workforce, which are featured in the newest section of its RAISE State Policy Roadmap for Family Caregivers. The webinar will provide an overview of state policies and will feature a national leader as well as leaders from Arizona and Colorado who will share their policies and innovations to strengthen the home and community-based services workforce. Speakers include: Moderator Wendy Fox-Grage NASHP Project Director RAISE Family Caregiver Resource and Dissemination Center Robert Espinoza Vice President of Policy, PHI RAISE Center Faculty Member Bill Kennard Administrator Office of Healthcare Workforce Development Arizona Healthcare Cost Containment System Hayley Gleason Division Director, Strategic Outcomes Division Colorado Office of Community Living

REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE. Each year, The John A. Hartford Foundation Business Innovation Award recognizes community-based organizations that are improving health outcomes and quality of life for older adults and/or persons with disabilities, in their communities. Runners up for The John A. Hartford Foundation 2021 Business Innovation Award were Daybreak’s Rapid Response Case Management Pilot (RRCM) and the Area Agency on Aging & Disabilities of Southwest Washington’s (AAADSW) Community Paramedicine program, both programs that work with multiple community partners to improve the health and quality of life of individuals who are frequent users of emergency services. Join this webinar to learn more about how Daybreak and AAADSW developed their programs and partnerships, the challenges they encountered along the way, and the outcomes they achieved. Participants in this webinar will be able to: Identify the intent of The John A. Hartford Foundation 2020 Business Innovation Award; Understand key elements of programs that support high emergency service utilizers; List key components of a successful partnership between community-based organizations and healthcare entities. Presenters: Christina Marneris is community services manager at AAADSW, where she has been for 13 years, and is responsible for planning and managing federal, state and pilot long-term services and supports for older adults, adults with disabilities and their family caregivers. Ofra Paz is executive director of DayBreak, with more than 15 years’ experience in senior leadership roles in the nonprofit sector. Paz joined DayBreak in 2015, and has led the organization through a leadership transition, expanding existing programs, and developing new lines of services and strategic partnerships, with government agencies, healthcare systems and other nonprofits. Rani E. Snyder, MPA, is vice president, Program, at The John A. Hartford Foundation. She has more than 25 years’ experience working with healthcare institutions across the country, improving the care of older adults, identifying and guiding healthcare programs that have set the standard for medical best practices, increasing medical education opportunities, and maximizing resources to improve healthcare broadly. At The John A. Hartford Foundation she coordinates initiatives that foster collaboration among academic institutions, hospitals and healthcare providers to build Age-Friendly Health Systems, support family caregivers, and improve serious illness and end-of-life care. Also she chairs the board at Grantmakers in Aging, is a board member at ASA, a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and served as a Volunteer Long-Term Care Ombudsman for the State of Nevada Aging and Disability Services Division.

REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE. This webinar introduces a new S4A study evaluating the effectiveness of a multisector task-sharing collaborative in addressing the inter-related problems of mental health disorders, poverty, and housing instability among racial and ethnic minority communities residing in Harlem, New York. The collaborative trains the staff at low-income housing agencies and primary care practices to engage in mental health task-sharing, whereby staff deliver basic mental health support services such as screening, psychoeducation, peer support, and referral to mental health specialists. Community health workers are placed at these same sites to help connect clients with needed social services beyond housing and primary care. A randomized controlled trial is used to evaluate the impact of the task-sharing model on mental health, social functioning, employment, and quality of life. The study is conducted by the Harlem Strong Mental Health Coalition, led by the City University of New York (CUNY) in partnership with the Harlem Congregation for Community Improvement, Healthfirst Managed Care, and Coordinated Behavioral Care.