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Sarah, will you address why Wellcare starting Jan 1 2025 is abandoning thousands of agents and brokers that have serviced and assisted Wellcare members all these years? Cutting off independent agents and agencies nationwide in 2025 will result in massive disruption to those Wellcare members currently enrolled in Part D plans. It is not fair to Seniors who rely on their local broker to guide them and assist them. It is not fair to the brokers who work hard to help them and will now be forced to turn away those same Seniors and inform them they are "on their own" for service and support. Pulling the rug out from your agent and broker community has sent shockwaves through the industry. You really should talk with Wellcare's CEO Michael Carson and direct him to retract the recent decision to eliminate all compensation for agents and brokers on part D plans, including new AND renewal policies. Is it worth alienating the massive broker community to save the company a few bucks (less than $5 per member per month)?

📢 Community Health Center Supporters: TAKE ACTION NOW! 📢 Tonight, there's a crucial vote scheduled for the 📜 Lower Costs, More Transparency Act (H.R. 5378) in Congress, and I urge you all to take a moment to understand its significance and join us in supporting this bipartisan legislation. Background on the "Lower Costs, More Transparency Act": For quite some time, the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) has been tirelessly advocating for a long-term extension and increase in health center and primary care workforce funding. The hard work has paid off, as tonight's vote signifies a crucial step towards providing the much-needed certainty for our health centers. 📝 Key Highlights of H.R. 5378: ✅ This bipartisan bill offers a 10% funding increase over 2 years and 3 months, a vital boost that will enable our health centers to continue providing essential care to communities across the nation. But that's not all! ✅ The act also extends and increases funding for the National Health Service Corps and Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education programs. These programs play a pivotal role in supporting residents and providers who serve in underserved communities, bridging the healthcare gap where it's needed most. 📢 Ways You Can Take Action: National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) is calling upon all health center supporters to get involved and make a difference: ✅ Email Your Representative: Use the pre-written email template in the link below. Reach out to your representative and express your support for this crucial legislation. ✅ Call Congress: Monday is designated as a call-in day to Congress. Pick up the phone and let your voice be heard. Your involvement matters, and together, we can significantly impact the future of healthcare in our communities. Support the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act and ensure that health centers continue to thrive, serving those who depend on them. #Healthcare #Transparency #CommunityHealth #Advocacy #HR5378 #NACHC #SupportOurHealthCenters #CHC #RuralHealth #healthcareheroes #healthcareindustry #CommunityHealthCenters

Community Health Centers: You're people caring for people. It's not just what you do, it's who you are, it's your mission. We understand care is everything. Access to care. High quality care. And we know it's not always easy. Regulations and reporting are complex and fluid, so having accurate data at fingertips is crucial. Rising costs and decline reimbursements challenge everyone, making it vital to have tools that bring in every dollar you earn, faster. Managing data from many of sources can be daunting, but our interoperability engine makes delivering coordinated, informed care easy. Systems should work the way you work, and not the other way around. They should flex to you. Staying fully staffed and avoiding burnout is a real issue. Our intelligent automation running in the background takes mundane tasks off your staff so they can focus on higher value jobs. For providers, we're making it easier for you to better care for and truly connect with your patients. With intuitive, simple workflows. Charting accelerators. All your preferences. And AI that listens to your conversation and creates the bulk of the encounter note for you within seconds. It's doing the heavy lifting for you so you can be entirely patient-centered. And in today's always on world, people expect healthcare on their terms, they want answers yesterday. Our patient engagement tools keep your patients at the center of all you do. This goes beyond keeping them engaged, it's about guiding them to success.   Because when your patients win, you do too! That's why you're doing this meaningful work in the first place.   We've created an environment that maximizes outcomes. By design, it functions to help you deliver better healthcare for everyone. For your patients and clients, their families, and the communities at large that you serve. National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) #believeinbetter #communityhealthcenters #fqhc

What does it take to ensure that community engagement isn't transactional, reduced to a buzzword or checkbox, in building partnerships between healthcare and people with lived experience? Our Power session with the team from INSPIRE is up on the website, you can learn from their research process, best practices, and action recommendations what it looks like to make community engagement more authentic and transformational.

Our long-term partnership with Care Ring is rooted in community voice and building relationships that optimize true care for a community - and not just transactional services. This week's article from Ryan Pitkin at The QC Nerve highlights how this work influenced locations and offerings for Care Ring's mobile health clinic - The Bridge - and in turn, more people receiving the healthcare they need. We're so inspired by the way our teammate Helen Hope Kimbrough builds trust in communities by listening and being proximate to the issues neighbors face - including, in this case, what it might take for an individual to access the clinic and making that walk herself. As she says in the article, “I wanted to see what it would be like for a mom to walk with two kids, or for a person who does not speak English or a second language, how would they navigate that?” she explained. “I also wanted to see what type of things would be needed for a person who may be disabled. And so along that walk, I got a chance to kind of embody some of that, because I feel like some of this work people come to with a bias. So how do we pull back all of that so that we can literally look to see the neighborhood — what’s going on, the people, the bus routes, all of those things?” You can read the article here: https://lnkd.in/eAXsEGbd For more about what Next Stage believes about Community Voice, read our recent report, "Inside Out: The Case for Community Voice:" https://lnkd.in/efvfu-4R

This week is Community Health Improvement Week! eServices Payment Technology collaborates with emergency services that work hard to keep their community members safe and healthy. Join us in supporting these essential services—contact your local EMS and healthcare providers to see how you can make a difference. #CommunityHealth #eServices #eServicesTech #eServicesPaymentTechnology #FirstResponders #CommunityHealth #CommunitySupport #CommunityHealthImprovementWeek

In some neighborhoods, finding a doctor can be tough! 🧭 But don't worry, we're here to help bridge that gap. At Southeast Primary Care, we're all about making sure you get the care you need, no matter where you live. 🤝 Better Health Starts Here- call us! #HealthEquity #CommunityCare #ValueBasedHealthcare

Happy National Health Center Week! Did you know that Mosaic is a "Community Health Center"? Do you know why that makes us different? Community Health Centers were founded out of the Civil Rights Movement and the War on Poverty in the 1960s as a way to address population health issues beyond just clinical diagnoses — by focusing on the root of health disparities caused by poverty, inequality, lack of access to care, and other socio-economic factors. Since then, the Health Center Program has grown to become a key part of the nation’s healthcare system. Partially funded by government grants, Community Health Centers MUST meet the Health Center Program requirements, which include: - Having a governing board where a majority of its members are patients - Focusing on the needs of the groups of people and the areas they serve - Developing systems of care that center on the patient - Serving everyone, even if they cannot pay - Charging for services on a sliding fee scale - Providing all required services - Following everything else the Compliance Manual requires Learn more about the history of Health Centers and their birth during the 1960s on the National Association of Health Care Centers blog: https://loom.ly/_1Ihdkw. #NHCW24 #ValueCHCs #QualityCareForAll

Many community health centers have 340B programs in place that help low-income and underserved community members receive essential care by reducing plan and prescription costs. But did you know that your 340B program can be used to help lower costs for your employee benefits cost as well? If you’re over 100 employee and interested in learning more comment on this post... At Corporate Synergies, we are proud to support organizations like the Community Health Care Association of New York State (CHCANYS) and other community health centers across the state. Are you self-insured? If not, there may be certain advantages you’re overlooking. #CommunityHealth #340B #HealthcareInnovation

At Axis Community Health, we're committed to ensuring equitable access to quality healthcare for all. That's why we were excited to visit the Sacramento Capitol today, advocating for policies directly impacting our patients and clinic. During our visit, Axis’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Dawnell Moody, addressed the critical need to tackle the workforce crisis in primary care in the United States emphasizing the importance of preparing the next generation of primary care providers to serve diverse patient populations. Dr. Moody further discussed how Community Health Centers play a vital role in providing essential and cost-efficient healthcare to millions across the US. She outlined challenges faced by Community Health Centers in California, particularly regarding financial sustainability. Our behavioral health team provided insight into the multi-faceted benefits of integrated behavioral health highlighting our Axis Bridge urgent mental health intervention. Dr. Jennifer Penney, Axis’s Chief of Integration, shared the program’s effectiveness in providing urgent mental health services to individuals of all ages as well as the significant cost savings achieved through Axis Bridge, as well as its role in decreasing hospitalizations and unnecessary emergency department visits within the Tri-Valley. We look forward to continuing to engage with policymakers and stakeholders to advocate for policies that support our mission of providing essential healthcare services to our community. #AxisCommunityHealth #HealthEquity #Advocacy #PrimaryCare #MentalHealth #CHCs #CaliforniaHealthcare #SacramentoCapitol #DAC2024 #ValueCHCs #CHCAdvocacy California Primary Care Association