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Evolving Opportunities For Services @Home

A legacy of the pandemic on health and human services is the change in home-based services. The pandemic’s lockdown forced a large proportion of services to be delivered at home using digital health platforms. This appears to have permanently changed the model for home-based services—now a new hybrid of on-site, virtual, and remote monitoring services. And, as a result, there are a broader range of treatment and support services being provided at home (see SNF-At-Home In The ‘Next Normal’, Mass General Brigham To Expand Hospital-At-Home Program Capacity, and Highmark Partners With Ria Health To Offer Coverage For At-Home Alcohol Addiction…
Our Next Executive Institute
The 2022 OPEN MINDS Management Best Practices Institute
August 30 – September 1, 2022 | Newport Beach, California

Our Next Executive Education Event
Improving Quality And Strengthening The Bottom Line — The Advocates Case Study
August 11, 2022
- Diane Gould President and CEO, Advocates
- Danielle Dunn, LMHC, VP of Integrated Clinical Services, Advocates
- Brenda Miele Soares, MSW, LICSW, Senior Vice President, Behavioral Health Services, Advocates
- Diana St. Cyr, CMC, Senior Director of Revenue Cycle Management, Advocates
Our Latest Industry News
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CMS Releases First-Ever Quality Measures For Medicaid Home- & Community-Based Services
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Oregon Health Care Costs Rose 49% Between 2013 & 2019, Driven By Rising Drug Costs
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Illinois Begins Accepting Medicaid Applications For Low-Income Individuals 42 & Older, Regardless Of Immigration Status
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Oklahoma To Implement Strategies To Reduce Obesity Among Children By 3% & Among Adults By 1% By 2026
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More Than 30% Of People With Opioid Use Disorder May Have Central Sensitization, A Chronic Pain Syndrome
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Contract Capitation By: Front Range Health Partners – An OPEN MINDS Program ProfileProgram Profiles
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Acquire Or Be Acquired: The OPEN MINDS Guide To M&A The OPEN MINDS Management Newsletter, July 2022The OPEN MINDS Management Newsletter, July 2022
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