December 17, 2018
Quality Commitment START Program Buncombe DSS & Family Preservation Services of NC Read more Technology Trillium Health Resources in Partnership with CHAT providers and Inflexxion Read more Whole Person Care Atrium Whole Person Care Programs Read more Community Inclusion Trillium and Oxford Houses’ Initiative 2020 Vision for Recovery Read more Individual and Family Initiatives First…
Read morePinehurst, NC (December 6, 2018). Trillium Health Resources and Oxford House’s Initiative 2020 Vision for Recovery was recognized with the i2i Center’s Community Inclusion Innovation award. i2i’s Executive Director Mary Hooper explained, “The purpose of the Innovation Awards is to recognize innovation in services and programming to increase integrated, whole person approaches to care. This…
Read morePinehurst, NC (December 6, 2018). The Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Team (START) Program of the Buncombe County Department of Social Services and Family Preservation Services (FPS) of NC were recently recognized with the new i2i Center for Integrative Health’s Quality Commitment Award. i2i’s Executive Director Mary Hooper explained, “The purpose of the Innovation Awards is…
Read morePinehurst, NC (December 6, 2018). First In Families NC (FIFNC) has won the i2i Center’s Individual and Family Initiatives Innovation award for 2018. i2i’s Executive Director Mary Hooper explained, “The purpose of the Innovation Awards is to recognize innovation in services and programming to increase integrated, whole person approaches to care. This was the first…
Read moreNovember 29, 2018
Included in the North Carolina 1115 Medicaid waiver that was just approved by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) was a waiver request on the Institution for Mental Diseases (IMD) exclusion that applies to substance use disorder facilities with 16 or more beds. This waiver will allow Medicaid funds to be used…
Read moreHurricane Florence barreled down on North Carolina through most of the week of September 10th, 2018. That seems like a long time ago, but the recovery process is ongoing. The impact—both service and cost related—is difficult to tally for the BH/IDD public system, partly because the costs can continue for several months after the actual…
Read moreNovember 15, 2018
The November elections brought changes to the make-up of the 2019 General Assembly and specifically to the health and human services committees. It is too early to say how that will impact future discussions on the public BH/IDD system and the public health and human service system as a whole. Current legislators are not quite…
Read moreOctober 31, 2018
NC DHHS announced on October 24th that the 1115 Medicaid waiver application has been approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services (CMS). This approval was a major hurdle to overcome and now almost guarantees the timeline that NC DHHS had set for implementation going forward. The approved waiver includes the BH/IDD Tailored Plans…
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