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Visit the Minnesota
Accountable Health Model website for printable fact
sheets for various Minnesota Accountable Health Model topic areas and an
updated map of service
areas throughout Minnesota.
Minnesota supports movement towards integration of
behavioral health
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) is awarding a third
round of Practice Transformation Grants to 24 organizations totaling
$239,752. These awards support each
grantee's participation in the Behavioral Health Home First Implementer's group
and the implementation of an action plan to move them toward behavioral health
home certification. Each received a six
month grant with a maximum award of $10,000 per recipient.
The selected grantee’s serve a broad geographic area,
including 12 rural, nine metro and three suburban
organizations. The organizations funded through round three of the Practice
Transformation grant program include:
- Amherst H.
Wilder Foundation, St. Paul
- Fairview
University of Minnesota Medical Center-Counseling Center, Minneapolis
- Fraser,
Minneapolis
- Guild, Inc.,
St. Paul
- Lakeland Mental
Health Center, Fergus Falls
- Mental Health
Resources, Inc., St. Paul
- Mental Health
Systems, PC, Edina
- Natalis
Counseling and Psychology Solutions, St. Paul
- Northland
Counseling Center, Inc., Grand Rapids
- Northwestern
Mental Health Center, Crookston
- Range Mental
Health Center, Virginia
- Range Regional
Health Services, Hibbing
- Sanford Medical
Center, Thief River Falls
- South Central
Human Relations Center, Owatonna
- South Lake
Pediatrics, Minnetonka
- South Metro
Human Services, St. Paul
- Southwestern
Mental Health Center, Luverne
- Stellher Human
Services, Inc., Bemidji
- Touchstone
Mental Health, Minneapolis
- University of
Minnesota/Community University Health Care Center (CUHCC), Minneapolis
- Vail Place,
Hopkins
- Western Mental
Health Center, Marshall
- Woodland
Centers, Willmar
- Zumbro Valley
Health Center, Rochester
This initiative
is part of a $45 million State Innovation Model (SIM) cooperative agreement,
awarded to the Minnesota Departments of Health and Human Services (DHS) in 2013
by The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to help implement the
Minnesota
Accountable Health Model.
The Minnesota Accountable Health Model is supporting
a series of events in communities across Minnesota.
State Innovation Model (SIM) grantees, residents, families, health and human service professionals
and other community leaders are invited to attend this year's final regional meeting in
December. Attendees will have the
opportunity to share stories, shape community priorities, and build
partnerships. The event is free and open to
the public, no registration is required.
Bemidji
- Thursday, December
3, 5:30 – 8:00 PM
- Resilience
and Healing Community Conversation. A light dinner will be served at 5:30, the
program will begin at 6:00 PM.
- Co-hosted by
Peacemaker Resources, Bemidji
- Location:
Northwest Minnesota Foundation, 201 3rd St. NW, Bemidji
Request for proposals: Evaluating High-Value Innovations from Low-Resource Communities
The RWJ is committed to seeking value from all levels of
investment in health care, public health, and population health. Through this
call for proposals the Foundation intends to pursue several objectives: (1) to
identify promising innovations to improve health being implemented in
low-resource communities, (2) to evaluate whether the innovations improve
health care quality and health without increasing costs; and (3) to disseminate
these innovations as examples for other communities to implement.
The
evaluation of innovations from low-resource communities is the primary
objective of this call for proposals. To learn more please visit the RWJ Website.
Proposals are due December 10th.
As a part of the Minnesota Accountable Health Model - State
Innovation Model (SIM) initiative, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has
awarded one grant in round two of the Learning Community program.
The SIM project defines a Learning Community as a team that
has common goals or interests, shares best practice knowledge and is actively
engaged in implementing transformation in a focused, structured environment
with the goal to advance patient-centered, coordinated and accountable care.
Learning Community grants focus on quality improvement
projects that support the advancement of provider organizations and community
partners along a continuum of practice transformation and community care
integration efforts in the following areas:
- Building the foundation for
implementation of a Health Care Home (HCH) model of care delivery in primary
care.
- Sustaining and enhancing the HCH
model of care delivery in primary care.
- Advancing community health.
The Learning Community grant will focus on providing teams
with education, assistance and support to implement a quality improvement
project using rapid learning cycles. Rapid learning cycles include four steps:
Plan, Do, Study, and Act. The round 2 RFP offered agencies the opportunity to
submit proposals for nine-month grants of up to $50,000. MDH received two
requests totaling $99,860 and funded one organization at a total of $49,860.
A Round 2 Learning Community Grant was awarded to the
Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI). ICSI will primarily serve
clinics outside the metro area and will focus on building foundational
capabilities for Health Care Homes and other transformation by supporting the
development of team and process skills, enabling independent rural practices to
achieve more sustainable change. This project is part of a $45 million State
Innovation Model (SIM) cooperative agreement, awarded to the Minnesota
Departments of Health and Human Services in 2013 by The Center for Medicare and
Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to help implement the Minnesota Accountable Health
Model.
The Minnesota
Accountable Health Model wants to hear from health
initiatives, SIM-funded grantees and other partnerships for health.
Tell us what helps your community be healthy. What is your
role in contributing to community health? We know health is important to
you and your community and invite you and your partners to share your stories.
The following tools are available to help you talk about
your health initiatives and the impact you are making in your community:
Stories that represent a variety of successes and challenges
in creating healthier communities may be chosen for further development.
Selected storytellers will be contacted about opportunities to develop and
record their stories to share throughout Minnesota. Additional resources may
also be available to help communities engage in deeper conversations about
their health.
For more information about this Storytelling Engagement
project, please email sida.ly-xiong@state.mn.us.
- April 26-27, 2016
- Marriott Northwest, Brooklyn Park, MN
- Registration opens in January 2016.
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