BHT is offering $5,000 grant-writing stipends for Community-based organizations currently applying for regional, state, or federal funding. Learn more and apply!
Read MoreBHT is offering up to $75,000 for Rural School-Based Healthcare projects and $10,000 mini-grants to support the health-related social needs of rural students. Please submit your proposals for one or both funding opportunities by May 15, 2024!
Read MoreWe need your help to find the change-makers, the big thinkers, and the equity champions in our community who can help us improve the lives of everyone who calls Eastern Washington home.
Read MoreTo support the needs of Newport School District, BHT is looking for a consultant to design an implementation and sustainability plan for a telehealth service to be offered in Newport High School, and the alternative High School, Pend Oreille River School, by March 30, 2024. Learn more here.
Read MoreWe released funding to support provider organizations with SUD and master’s level behavioral health staff with supervision so that the staff can gain critical licensure and to build capacity for supervision in our region. Here’s how our first year went..
Read MoreThe 2023 Smile Survey is making significant progress across the state. So far, thanks to the partnership of school districts, the survey has reached 55% of schools randomly selected for the sample. In Spokane County, the Smile Spokane Collaborative is seeking connections to selected schools to support participation in the Smile Survey.
Read MoreSpokane Collaborative meeting materials for June 2023.
Read MoreReports of fake texts and phone calls to Medicaid clients have been reported over the past couple weeks in other states. We’re asking Apple Health (Medicaid) clients to be aware of suspicious contact seeking money to maintain their health coverage.
Read MoreWe are now accepting applications for new board members. We are looking for leaders who want to be a part of making positive changes in healthcare for our community.
Read MoreWe will be hosting an open house for prospective Community Voices Council members. Please join us!
Read MoreDirector of Clinical Integration, Charisse Pope, had the opportunity to weigh in on low-income bus passes and the health benefits related to transportation.
Read MoreWashington State will use funds transferred from public providers, know as Intergovernmental Transfers (IGT), to make up a portion of the dollars for Medicaid Transformation.
Read MoreAnother milestone for BHT! We had a busy few days here last week, but were so incredibly excited to submit our regional project portfolio to the HCA on Thursday afternoon. Download and read over the portfolio below!
Watch how the Pathfinder Community Hub supports Community Care Coordinators like Kathy in empowering her clients to make healthy choices.
Read MoreAnnouncing the opening of a Navigator store front for this year's open enrollment period starting November 1st.
Read MoreWe’ve been eagerly awaiting news on the Medicaid Transformation Waiver but, since we aren’t ones to just sit around, we’re moving full speed ahead.
We’ve spent months synthesizing the wealth of information generated in our Idealized Design and Community Linkage mapping sessions to develop and inform our Regional Health Improvement Plan and the selection of a Regional Health Improvement Project. During our focus group conversations, our community worked together to inventory existing linkages between community resources, and identify where linkages were broken or non-existent. Across those conversations, one need presented itself over and over again: the need to “coordinate the coordinators.”
The diversity of partners in our ACH Leadership Council members demonstrates the leadership and dedication needed to radically improving the health of our region. We agree the most emergent need is not to scale any one community resource or service but to build stronger and more navigable connections between the coordinators and resources already available.
This was realized in our design sessions as a need for “air traffic control” or a patient-centered workforce that helps coordinate services across all sectors. Independent organizations need the flexibility to explore their own models and develop their strengths, but to nurture healthy community, patients need services that communicate, collaborate, and speak the same language of care.
From this idea, we’ve pulled together a workgroup to explore the Pathways HUB model and serve as the steering committee for our Regional Health Improvement Project. Alisha Fehrenbacher from Empire Health Foundation, presented on to the ACH Leadership Council in March on her experiences implementing the Pathways HUB model (view her slides here) in Oregon. It is an evidence-based model currently deployed in over 20 regions of the US, that positions care organizations around a centralized HUB, and has been shown to effectively address risk factors, improve health and reduce costs.
We feel confident this model has a lot to offer our region and are excited to explore it further. The workgroup will continue to develop our plan throughout the summer, with the hope that we will be in position to hit the ground running once we hear about the waiver. If you are interested in joining the Leadership Council, please email Alison@betterhealthtogether.
