Published Paper: Strategies for Changing State Medicaid Policy to Improve Services to Children with Medical Complexity
This paper introduces a number of existing Medicaid policy instruments and explains how to use them more effectively for programs and providers dedicated to serving CMC. Because Medicaid programs are so variable across the nation, we also provide a diagnostic approach to understanding each state’s [...]
The HIV, Housing & Employment Project: Project Impact & Materials
There is little evidence available on effective models to engage low-income people living with HIV from racial/ethnic minority communities in reducing housing and employment needs to improve health status. By evaluating the outcomes of the demonstration site interventions, we will have a better unde [...]
Evaluation
We design and implement robust evaluation strategies to help organizations measure the impact of their programs and systems. We also assist with data collection and analysis, and translation of research results into manuals, peer reviewed articles, policy recommendations, and other actionable produc [...]
Global Experience of Community Health Workers for Delivery of Health Related Millennium Development Goals: a systematic review, country case studies, and recommendations for integration into National Health Systems
Report includes global systematic review, country case-study CHW programs, analysis and expert opinions, followed by recommendations on best practices for CHW programs within different health categories (including HIV/AIDS).
Allyson Baughman
Allyson Baughman is a project director at CISWH. Since joining the Center in 2016, she has worked on two HRSA-funded projects, Using Community Health Workers (CHW) to Improve Linkage and Retention in HIV Care, and the Catalyst Center (the National Technical Assistance Center for Health Care Financin [...]
MED-HEART: Client story videos from the initiative Building a Medical Home
Stories from the initiative Building a Medical Home for Multiply Diagnosed HIV-Positive Homeless Populations The below videos were created by several of the demonstration sites who implemented a medical home model with a goal to reduce barriers to engagement and retention in HIV care among people wh [...]
Expanding Access & Improving Retention in HIV Care: The SPECTRuM Project Implementation Manual
Although current medical treatments have improved health outcomes for people living with HIV infection, for some, engagement and retention in health care and adherence to antiretroviral treatment is a challenge. In 2011, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Infectious Disease and [...]
Strengthening Title V – Medicaid Managed Care Collaborations to Improve Care for CYSHCN
Forty-seven states use some form of managed care to serve children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) enrolled in Medicaid. State Title V programs, which are required to use 30 percent of their funds for programs for CYSHCN and their families, may also serve these same children. By wo [...]
MED-HEART: Models of Care: Building a Medical Home for Multiply Diagnosed HIV-Positive Homeless Populations
Below are links to manuals for the models of care that were developed as part of the initiative Building a Medical Home for Multiply Diagnosed HIV-Positive Homeless Populations. They include a multisite manual that provides an overview of the initiative and nine manuals created by each of the nine d [...]
The Oguagha Family
With limited means, Pamela Oguagha has been resourceful enough to create a life full of enriching, therapeutic activities for her daughter Taylor, a "typical teenager who happens to have autism." But she finds the process overwhelming.
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