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Aligning in Action: VAAACares
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Aligning in Action: VAAACares

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This case study highlights VAAACares, a statewide Area Agency on Aging collaboration delivering comprehensive care coordination services for insurers and health systems. It relies on dedicated certified health coaches to effectively transition patients out of the hospital and facilitate with the skills and confidence to manage and control their health problems.

VAAACares illustrates that aligning takes on many forms. This grew from an opportunity created by federal policy and has been sustained due to its proven effectiveness.

Aligning Systems for Health: Health Care + Public Health + Social Services, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and managed by the Georgia Health Policy Center, is focused on learning from stakeholders across the nation about effective ways to align these three sectors to better meet people’s goals and needs.

Webinar

Transit and Treatment: Effectiveness of Transit Systems to Improve Substance Use and Mental Health In Connecticut

Increasing access and retention in treatment services is critical to improving health outcomes and reducing substance abuse overdose deaths. This webinar examines a research project that tests how a transit system can enhance substance abuse treatment outcomes and reduce provider-level treatment costs for substance abuse amidst the opioid crisis in Connecticut. It also examines how treatment costs differ before and after a new transit line and/or a change in transit service schedules.

Podcast

Improving Aging Supports Through Collaboration

In this podcast, Medicaid leaders from Michigan and Indiana discuss strategies they’re using to address these issues, including their efforts to co-design solutions with Medicaid members.

Webinar

Introduction to Shared Stewardship

This webinar explores shared stewardship, a way of working together and making decisions that will build and sustain a future where everyone can thrive.