In this issue

• The professional power of the dual degree: public health & social work
• Recruiting for workforce sentinels is in full swing
• Medicaid Transformation in Indian Country

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Events

• Communities Joined in Action Conference
  April 24-26, 2019
  Seattle, WA
  Register for this event.

• Saying It Out Loud Conference
  April 29, 2019
  Tacoma, WA
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• Healthier Washington Quarterly Webinar series:
  Tribal health systems and Medicaid Transformation
  May 9, noon to 1 pm
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• Washington State Health Information Management Association annual meeting
  May 17-18, 2019
  Spokane Valley, WA
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• GCACH Regional Summit on Opioid Use Disorder & Trauma Informed Care
  June 19-21, 2019
  Yakima, WA
  For more information, contact Diane Halo

• Healthier Washington Quarterly Webinar series:
  An overview of the Clinical Data Repository
  Aug. 13, noon to 1 pm
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The professional power of the dual degree: public health & social work

Healthier Washington Connector, Bonnie Wennerstrom, talks about the career benefits of an MPH/MSW degree.

Healthier Washington Connector, Bonnie Wennerstrom, is known for taking a broad perspective and connecting dots.

In her academic career, she used the same strategy–blending two, traditionally separate fields: public health and social work. 

"It's not just the marriage of two skill sets," she says, it "represents a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts." 

Recruiting for workforce sentinels is in full swing

Since 2016, the Health Workforce Sentinel Network, a state led consortium, has been collecting and sharing essential information about the state's healthcare workforce.

The information comes from volunteers—called sentinels—who are helping track workforce needs, such as recruiting hurdles, skills gaps, and changing health care roles.

Read the full story.

Medicaid Transformation in Indian Country

Quileute Tribal land on the shores of the Pacific Ocean

How is Washington's Medicaid Transformation affecting the state's nearly 70,000 American Indian/Alaska Native Medicaid enrollees?

How is the Health Care Authority adapting the complexities of the Transformation to benefit the even more complex Indian health care system?

On Thursday, May 9, from noon to 1 p.m., the Healthier Washington Quarterly Webinar series will explore the intersection, and sometimes collision, of the Indian health care system and the state's Medicaid Transformation.

Please join us for this Tribal health systems and Medicaid Transformation webinar.