February

The MHVC Workforce Subcommittee is excited to announce that its Training Calendar is now “live” on the MHVC website. The master calendar is located on the MHVC Workforce Subcommittee page (link here); activities will also be linked in the future to other parts of the site, the MHVC Partner Portal, and our newsletter. The purpose…

We have been reporting the past few months on the objectives and successes of the MAX Series and the two MHVC teams — St. Luke’s Cornwall and St. Joseph’s and their respective partners — that already participated. We are pleased to announce that one MHVC partner, HealthQuest, was selected to participate in the next round…

Following the January 2017 release of the Hudson Valley DSRIP Cross-PPS Behavioral Health Crisis Stabilization Report (link here), MHVC, Westchester County and our partner PPSs are moving to act on recommendations in the report. Westchester County designed separate half-day sessions with featured speakers and breakouts for those providing services for adults and for children, held…

MHVC has continued to report the results of the two ED super-utilizer focused Action Teams representing MHVC during the first Medicaid Accelerated Exchange (MAX) Series Program — St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital and St. Joseph’s Medical Center — and we want to provide an update and an exciting announcement. Given St. Luke’s and St. Joseph’s demonstrated…

At the end of January 2017, the Department of Health issued its final report on its groundbreaking eight-month MAX Series program. The report, DSRIP – Medicaid Accelerated eXchange (MAX) Series Program Final Report Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care Services (link here), “highlights the work of 10 Action Teams who participated in the first year…