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What is Value-Based Care, Again?
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What is Value-Based Care, Again?

If there is an annoyingly vague policy term that gets bandied about when discussing Medicaid, it’s “value-based care.” How do we define “value-based care?” What are the policy triggers that indicate “value-based care?” How do we know if “value-based care” is being achieved? Frankly, “value-based care” gets thrown out so often and so casually that...

State budget process: health and human services and the House sub bill
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State budget process: health and human services and the House sub bill

It’s been a busy few weeks (months…years….?) in the Ohio legislature. Last we checked in, the Governor’s version of the state budget—House Bill (HB) 33—was making its way through the House of Representatives. The House Finance Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, along with the other issue area subcommittees, heard testimony from a diverse set...

What Patients, Providers and Advocates Need to Know about the PHE’s Impact on Medicaid
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What Patients, Providers and Advocates Need to Know about the PHE’s Impact on Medicaid

In March of 2020, under the federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), all individuals who were enrolled in Ohio Medicaid or became enrolled after March 18, 2020 were not permitted to be disenrolled from the program unless the individual met one of the following circumstances: voluntarily requested the discontinuance of Medicaid coverage was no...

Leadership District Fact Sheets: Examining Stephens’ House District 93 and Huffman’s Senate District 12 
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Leadership District Fact Sheets: Examining Stephens’ House District 93 and Huffman’s Senate District 12 

 The Center for Community Solutions recently released profiles for Ohio’s state legislative districts. We do this as a public service and make the profiles widely available. They include demographic, economic, education, and other data.   While we caution against comparing one district against another (sample sizes can be small and lead to large margins of...

State Budget Priorities 2024-25 from The Center for Community Solutions
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State Budget Priorities 2024-25 from The Center for Community Solutions

As we embark on a new year and the 135th General Assembly, The Center for Community Solutions has laid out a set of priorities for the 2024-2025 state budget that closely align with our organizational policy priority areas and build upon progress made to date. Our budget priorities are responsive to the fact that we’re...

Latest Ohio Department of Health infant mortality report: crisis and disparities remain
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Latest Ohio Department of Health infant mortality report: crisis and disparities remain

By: Hope A. Lane-Gavin, Fellow, Health Equity Natasha Takyi-Micah, Public Policy & External Affairs Associate Addressing the infant mortality crisis in Ohio remains one of our top priorities at The Center for Community Solutions, as an avenue to improving public health. Infant mortality is defined as the death of an infant before their first birthday....

Racism as a public health crisis and the economics of urban hospitals
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Racism as a public health crisis and the economics of urban hospitals

On September 14th, St. Vincent Charity Medical Center announced they will cease to provide emergency and inpatient services, including emergency psychiatric services, in Cleveland. In addition to the impact this will have on the local service delivery landscape, there is also the economic consequences of the loss of 600 jobs in the city’s Center. Ironically,...