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Meeting the Mark: Improving Diabetes Care
NYSHealth is supporting physicians' efforts to deliver the best care possible for patients with diabetes. Applications for this initiative will be reviewed and awarded on a rolling basis through July 31, 2013.
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Helping Health Centers Expand Primary Care Access
NYSHealth grant awards are helping community health centers meet the primary care needs of patients across the State.
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Continuity of Coverage for Lower-Income New Yorkers
A new report examines what is needed to create a seamless coverage system so New Yorkers don’t lose coverage due to changes in income and program eligibility.
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Integrating Care for New York's Dual Eligibles
A new report offers specific recommendations for New York State as it works to improve the coordination and integration of care dual eligibles receive through Medicare and Medicaid.
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Money Changes Everything: Creating Payment Reform in New York
NYSHealth takes a look at payment reform initiatives in New York State as well as what other states are doing.
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Building a Better Medicaid Eligibility and Enrollment System for Duals
A new report examines options for states to ensure that the gains in Medicaid access and eligibility coverage benefit all Medicaid-eligible populations.
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Keeping People Healthy
Fixing our broken health system will require building the evidence base for effective disease-prevention programs.
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A Needs Assessment of New York State Veterans
This report examines the mental health needs of New York State's returning veterans and their families, and the need for more community-based resources to support them.
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Diabetes Prevention: Moving Forward with the Evidence
A new white paper assesses the effectiveness of the National Diabetes Prevention Program and offers recommendations for spreading and sustaining the program.
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Maximizing Health Care Reform for New York’s Immigrants
A new report highlights opportunities for New York State to expand immigrant health care coverage.
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Expanding Sustainable Community Health Centers
A new report offers a first-ever plan for building New York’s community health center system.
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Implementing the ACA in New York State
A new report assesses NYSHealth’s contributions to health reform implementation.
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Replicating the Buffalo Veterans Treatment Court
Building on a successful model first established in Buffalo, NYSHealth is investing in the replication of veterans treatment courts in 10 jurisdictions throughout New York State.
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Establishing Pharmacy Services at a Community Health Center
Callen-Lorde Community Health Center shares lessons from its experience establishing an on-site pharmacy.
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YMCA Diabetes Prevention Program: Outcomes and Implications
New executive summary highlights findings of the YMCA diabetes prevention program’s implementation in New York.
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Diabetes Prevention: Scaling What Works
Continued efforts by NYSHealth and grantee partners are helping to reverse the diabetes epidemic in New York State.
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A Blueprint for Serving Veterans and Their Families
A new report provides communities with a replicable and scalable best-practice model for serving veterans and their families.
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In the News
June 5, 2013
“Nothing Ventured? A Hard Look at Risk Taking”
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In the News
June 5, 2013
“With Just Months to Go, New York State’s Health Benefit Exchange Gears Up for Open Enrollment”
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In the News
May 31, 2013
“Biking (and Eating, and Shopping) Our Way to Good Health”
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Implementing the ACA in New York State: One Statewide Foundation’s Approach to Preparing for 2014
Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth), in partnership with numerous grantees and allies, has made it a key priority to help New York State prepare for effective implementation of health reform. But have NYSHealth’s investments made a difference?
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A Plan for Expanding Sustainable Community Health Centers in New York
In this NYSHealth-funded report, the Community Health Care Association of New York State (CHCANYS) identifies ways New York State’s federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) could provide more than 1 million additional visits and serve hundreds of thousands more patients each year.
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Health-e-Access: Optimizing Access to Primary Care to Avoid Emergency Department Use
For many parents, particularly those in impoverished, inner-city communities, the emergency department is their only access point for medical care for children with acute illnesses. However, limited primary care access often leads to exorbitant costs for non-emergency conditions, and for care that is frequently inconvenient, impersonal, and inefficient. To ultimately change this paradigm, the University of Rochester piloted the Health-e-Access program over the course of nine years, beginning in 2001. The program enables children with acute or ongoing health care needs to be evaluated by a remote clinician via telemedicine in convenient, community-based access sites, which include childcare programs and schools.
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The scorecard allows the Foundation to track its effectiveness and impact in its efforts to improve the health of all New Yorkers.
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