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New York HEAL NY Community-Based Health Information Technology

September 30th, 2009

New York Announces $60 Million Funding for HEAL NY

“HEAL NY” Funding Will Support Improvements in Health IT, Hospital Restructuring and Community-Based Services for Older Adults and Individuals with Disabilities

HEAL NY Phase 10:
Nearly $60 million of the funding, through HEAL NY Phase 10, will go to community-based health information technology (IT) projects to build a more streamlined approach to sharing patient information. These projects will lead to significant savings in health care in the coming years. Unnecessary paperwork and redundancies throughout the system will be removed, and doctors and nurses will have better access to information of patients who transfers from one medical center to another.

These reforms are based on the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model, which health care professionals believe to be the most effective in treating a patient – by establishing a partnership among doctors, nurses, patients and their families to ensure that patients have the support they need to participate in their own care.

HEAL NY Phase 11:
A second block of funding, HEAL NY Phase 11, consists of more than $174 million in grants to 25 hospitals across the State to enter into collaborative arrangements that promote quality and efficiency in the delivery of care appropriate to the needs of their communities.

These awards will help the recipient hospitals to eliminate duplicative services and achieve greater efficiency in providing services responsive to identified community needs.  For example, the Catholic Health System’s merger of its three acute care hospitals in Western New York into its single governance structure will lead to a more efficient service line model – patients will get better care, and operating costs will go down. In New York City, an award to St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center in Manhattan will support that facility’s collaboration with NYU Hospitals Center to consolidate services in pediatrics, physical rehabilitation, psychiatry and cardiovascular care, while eliminating more than 60 beds that are no longer needed.

HEAL NY Phase 12:
Finally, the HEAL NY Phase 12 awards consist more than $172 million in grants to 19 applicants for projects to support long-term care services in community-based settings. The primary goal of these awards is to help communities organize, finance and develop alternatives to traditional nursing home while reducing of nursing homes’ certified inpatient bed capacity.

These awards will result in new community-based, long-term care options, including Assisted Living Programs, Assisted Living Residences, Enriched Housing Programs, and affordable senior housing with coordinated medical services.

A complete list of the HEAL NY awards by institution is available at: http://www.ny.gov/governor/press/pdf/press_0925091-b.pdf.

A complete list of the HEAL NY awards in Queens is available at: http://www.ny.gov/governor/press/pdf/press_0925091-a.pdf.

The following is a region-by-region list of HEAL NY Phase 10, 11 and 12 awards:

Total New York City Region Awards: $140,115,761

  • Phase 10 New York City Awards: $13,741,782
  • Phase 11 New York City Awards: $63,173,261
  • Phase 12 New York City Awards: $63,200,718

Total Northern Region Awards: $23,183,925

  • Phase 10 Northern Awards: $7,000,000
  • Phase 11 Northern Awards: $6,021,752
  • Phase 12 Northern Awards: $10,162,173

Total Western Region Awards: $67,839,658

  • Phase 10 Western Awards: $13,997,972
  • Phase 11 Western Awards: $23,399,321
  • Phase 12 Western Awards: $30,442,365

Total Central Region Awards: $72,320,205

  • Phase 10 Central Awards: $6,676,804
  • Phase 11 Central Awards: $23,856,401
  • Phase 12 Central Awards: $41,787,000

Total Hudson Valley Region Awards: $65,168,126

  • Phase 10 Hudson Valley Awards: $5,902,937
  • Phase 11 Hudson Valley Awards: $35,957,244
  • Phase 12 Hudson Valley Awards: $23,307,945

Total Long Island Region Awards: $37,694,355

  • Phase 10 Long Island Awards: $12,295,218
  • Phase 11 Long Island Awards: $21,935,797
  • Phase 12 Long Island Awards: $3,463,340
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CDC Recovery Act Communities Putting Prevention to Work — State and Territory Initiative

September 30th, 2009

State and Territory Initiative – CDC Recovery Act Communities Putting Prevention to Work

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced a funding opportunity for communities and tribes to apply for $373 million in cooperative agreements for the comprehensive public health initiative, Communities Putting Prevention to Work, to be led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (1.1M–PDF) states that “$650M shall be provided to carry out evidence-based clinical and community-based prevention and wellness strategies authorized by the Public Health Service Act that deliver specific, measurable health outcomes that address chronic disease rates.” The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has developed an initiative in response to the Act. The goal of this initiative – Communities Putting Prevention to Work – is to reduce risk factors and prevent/delay chronic disease and promote wellness in both children and adults. The initiative was launched by HHS in a press briefing held on September 17, 2009. In addition, a press release and fact sheet are available related to the announcement. The press release and fact sheet are also available as a PDF:

There are three major State and Territory components:

  1. Statewide Policy and Environmental Change: These policy activities will support and institutionalize healthy behaviors related to obesity control, nutrition, physical activity, and tobacco control and prevention. Strategies should be grounded in evidence and part of the MAPPS intervention model. All states and territories will be eligible for a base funding amount determined by population.
  2. Competitive Special Policy and Environmental Change Initiative: States and territories can compete for funds for special policy initiatives. The funds should be used to implement at least one or more high-impact additional policy, environment or system change strategy to achieve health equity/eliminate health disparities in the area of physical activity, nutrition, or tobacco or a combination of these. Strategies should be gounded in evidence and part of the MAPPS intervention model.
  3. Tobacco Cessation through Quitlines and Media: under the direction of CDC, states and territories submitting quality applications will receive funding to expand tobacco quit lines, in concert with expanded cessation media campaigns. States and territories will receive funding based on the number of smokers in their jurisdiction. Additional funds will be used for national efforts to support surge capacity, additional quit line monitoring and quality improvement measures.
Key DatesEvents
Letter of Intent Deadline
(Community Initiative Only): October 30, 2009

Application Deadline (Community Initiative): December 1, 2009

Application Deadline (State and Territory Initiative): Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Conference Calls for Community Initiative

September 30, 2009– 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern — eligible applicants in Mountain and Pacific time zones.

October 1, 2009 – 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Eastern — eligible applicants in Atlantic, Eastern, and Central time zones.

October 1, 2009 – 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern — tribal applicants in all time zones
Conference Calls for State and Territory Initiative

Conference Calls for State and Territory Initiative

October 6, 2009 – 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern – applicants applying for State Competitive and Non-Competitive funding.

October 7, 2009 – 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern – applicants applying for Quitline funding.

October 7, 2009 – 8:00 p.m.  to 10:00 p.m. Eastern applicants from the Pacific Territories applying for non-competitive and quitline funding

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Community Grants and State Funds to Pay For New Jersey Health Information Exchange

September 29th, 2009

Camden New Jersey to Launch Health Information Exchange

The city’s three largest medical centers will get community grants and state funds will pay for a health information exchange:  The Lourdes Health System, Cooper University Hospital and Virtua Camden. Two diagnostic testing labs will also participate.

The Lourdes Health System is one of southern New Jersey’s leading health care providers, with hospitals located in Camden and Willingboro.

Cooper University Hospital – “South Jersey’s leading academic medical center with offices throughout New Jersey and the Delaware Valley.”

Virtua Camden “offers a wide range of outpatient services including the Kyle W. Will Family Health Center. As one of the area’s finest practices, we provide comprehensive primary care and specialty services for infants, children, teens and adults.”

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Oregon Creates Health Insurance Exchange Quality Care Institute and Health Authority

September 29th, 2009

House Bill 2009 Establishes Oregon Health Authority Board and Oregon Health Authority

75th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY–2009 Regular Session House Bill 2009

Establishes Oregon Health Authority Board and Oregon Health Authority and specifies duties, functions and powers. Transfers health and health insurance functions to authority from Department of Human Services and Department of Consumer and Business Services.
Creates Quality Care Institute and Oregon Health Insurance Exchange in Oregon Health Authority.
Requires authority to implement premium assistance program. Requires authority to streamline application process for medical assistance and premium assistance programs. Requires authority to increase reimbursement rates for health services providers participating in medical assistance programs.
Requires authority to conduct outreach for and marketing of medical assistance and premium assistance programs.
Creates tax on health insurance and managed care plans. Sets fixed rate for hospital assessment and removes sunset. Creates new cigarette tax. Establishes Oregon Health Authority Fund. Deposits moneys from taxes and assessments into fund. Continuously appropriates moneys in fund to authority for purpose of carrying out functions of authority.

(Duties of Oregon Health Authority Board)
SECTION 10. (1) The duties of the Oregon Health Authority Board are to:
(a) Be the policy-making and oversight body for the Oregon Health Authority established in section 11 of this 2009 Act and all of the authority¢s departmental divisions, including the Quality Care Institute and the Oregon Health Insurance Exchange described in sections 17 and 18 of this 2009 Act.
(b) Implement a program to provide health insurance premium assistance to all low and moderate income families residing in Oregon.
(c) Establish health benefit plans for individuals who are covered under the Public Employees Benefit Board and the Oregon Educators Benefit Board that will achieve optimal coordination among state agencies that provide health care benefits.
(d) Establish and continuously refine uniform, statewide health care quality standard for use by all purchasers of health care, third party payers and health care providers as quality performance benchmarks.
(e) Establish clinical standards and guidelines described in section 18 (3)(f)(B) of this 2009
Act.
(f) Approve and monitor community-centered health initiatives described in section 11 of this 2009 Act that are consistent with public health goals, strategies, programs and performance standards adopted by the board to improve the health of all Oregonians and shall regularly report to the Legislative Assembly on the accomplishments and needed changes to the initiatives.
(g) Establish cost control mechanisms to limit increases in health care costs in this state to an amount no greater than the U.S. City Average Consumer Price Index for medical care as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor minus one percent, by the year 2015.
(h) Work with the Oregon congressional delegation to advance the adoption of or changes in federal policy to promote Orego’ns comprehensive health reform plan.
(i) Establish an essential benefit package for all insurance offered through the Oregon Health Insurance Exchange.

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