Community Health Solutions provides strategy support for the VACSB and its members. We support CSBs with tools and resources to define and communicate the value they deliver to the communities they serve locally and statewide. We have developed a regional Community ROI model for individual CSBs including a Community ROI toolkit and Virginia Atlas of [...]
Yesterday, February 6th, Community Health Solutions held a webinar on "Creating a Community Value Profile: Applying the ROI Model to a specific service/program." In the webinar we presented a report template called The Community Value of Crisis Intervention Teams, which outlines a ‘community value profile’ for defining and communicating the value of Crisis Intervention Teams in [...]
In this new health care environment, there is a lot of discussion about frequent Emergency Department (ED) visits and reducing hospital readmissions. A recent study published in Health Affairs presents some findings that are counter-intuitive. Though the findings are drawn from only one state's Medicaid system, it is important to consider these results alongside studies in other [...]
This article published in Health Affairs documents changes in insurance coverage and cost for mental health services for people with public insurance, private insurance, and no coverage. Consistent with prior research, this study found that people with mental health problems were more likely to be uninsured than those without such problems. And consistent with trends in the general population, [...]