Health Care Authority partners with Reproductive Health Access Project

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September 10, 2024

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Health Care Authority partners with Reproductive Health Access Project

The Health Care Authority (HCA) has partnered with the Reproductive Health Access Project (RHAP) to support the reproductive health provider community access accurate, evidence-based clinical information.

What is the Reproductive Health Access Project?

RHAP trains, supports, and mobilizes clinicians to ensure equitable access to sexual and reproductive health care. By centering communities most impacted by barriers to care, RHAP fills critical gaps in clinical education and care delivery.

Beginning this fall, HCA will redistribute select articles from RHAP and pay for printed provider materials for the Apple Health (Medicaid) provider community upon request.

Examples of RHAP content

Examples of content included in the partnership include:

Contraceptive Pearls monthly newsletter sent through our GovDelivery list.
Accompanying social media posts for providers and consumers. Follow HCA on Facebook or Instagram or LinkedIn as we reshare select RHAP posts.
Access to a resource library and print materials upon request including posters, birth control user guides, fact sheets, and clinical tools.
- To order items in bulk from the RHAP resource library, email Brandy Bautista with "Washington Health Care Authority" in the body of the email, the items you'd like to order, quantities, business address, and delivery address (if different than your business address).

Contraceptive Pearls is a monthly newsletter released by RHAP. Past articles include:

More information

To learn more about RHAP’s work, read Best Practices for Developing Contraception Patient Education. If you have any issue or topic you’d like RHAP to consider for research and publication, contact the RHAP program.

RHAP’s content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. This means that anyone, anywhere is free to download, reproduce, and use the materials in any way you want as long as RHAP is credited for creating them and they are shared for free. Read more on Permission to Use Materials.

Email Andrea Estes, Sexual and Reproductive Health Programs Innovation Manager at HCA, with questions regarding this partnership.

About the Health Care Authority (HCA)

Functioning as both the state's largest health care purchaser and its behavioral health authority, the Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) is a leader in ensuring Washington residents have the opportunity to be as healthy as possible.

There are three pillars of our work: Apple Health (Medicaid); the Public Employees Benefits Board (PEBB) and School Employees Benefits Board (SEBB) programs; and behavioral health and recovery. Under these pillars, HCA purchases health care, including behavioral health treatment for more than 2.7 million Washington residents and provides behavioral health prevention, crisis, and recovery supports to all Washington residents.

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