Regional Healthcare Partnerships Planning Summit

Texas Health and Human Services Commission is holding a Regional Healthcare Partnerships Summit from November 13-14, 2011 in Austin. This is an invitation only event.  Focus of the summit will be obtaining input for establishing projects for the Delivery System Incentive Payment Pool (DSRIP).

Agenda

• Regional Healthcare Partnership Agenda

Preliminary List of DSRIP Categories 1-4 Projects and Key Health Challenges 

This is the full list of survey responses of potential projects for DSRIP Categories 1-4 and input from THA, THOT, TMA, UT, and DSHS. The list serves as background information in preparation for the RHP Planning Summit. During the summit breakout sessions, participants will work off the summarized responses to the Categories.

• Preliminary List of DSRIP and Key Health Challenges

Background Materials

These articles serve as background information on best practices in preparation for the RHP Planning Summit and are not specifically endorsed by HHSC.

Increasing Access to Behavioral Health

• State Options for Integrating Physical and Behavioral Health Care
• Providing Behavioral Health Services to Medicaid Managed Care Enrollees
• Integration of Mental Health/Substance Abuse and Primary Care
• Evolving Models of Behavioral Health Integration in Primary Care
• Behavioral Health / Primary Care Integration and the Person-Centered Healthcare Home

Increasing Innovation In Behavioral Health

• State Behavioral Health Innovations: Disseminating Promising Practices
• Innovative Medicaid Initiatives to Improve Service Delivery and Quality of Care: A Look at Five State Initiatives

Increasing Access to Primary Care

• States In Action: A Bimonthly Look at Innovations in Health Policy
• Creating Physician-Support Entities in Medicaid

Increasing Access to Specialty Care

• Electronic Consultations Between Primary and Specialty Care Clinicians: Early Insights

Improving Rates of Potentially Preventable Admissions/Readmissions

• Health Care Leader Action Guide to Reduce Avoidable Readmissions
• Hospital Readmissions among Medicaid Beneficiaries with Disabilities: Identifying Targets of Opportunity
• Reducing Hospital Readmissions

39 Week Induction Bundles

• Reducing Elective Inductions Before 39 Weeks (pages 132-148)
• Preventing Elective Induction Before 39 Weeks

Increasing the Pipeline for More Primary Care Doctors

• West Virginia's Primary Care Workforce Pipeline Training Programs
• West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission: Health Sciences and Rural Health 

Local Restaurants List

• Local Austin Restaurants