SOUTH METRO HEALTH ALLIANCE General Membership Meeting Minutes Monday, January 23, 2012
Present:
Nancy Wenig Englewood Victim Assistance Mike Pattarozzi Englewood Fire Department Gloria Chavira Arapahoe Library District Dulce Mendoza CSU Extension SNAP-Ed Ashley Greenhow Alternatives Pregnancy Center Chris Katzenmeyer Consortium for Older Adult Wellness Sheila Gains CSU Extension
Kevin Bert ARTS/Synergy
Ashley Palubinski Goodwill
Debra Gutierrez Tri County Health Department Davello Bacca Tri County Health Department Kathy Leslie Mission Hills Church
Maria Pearson Inter Faith Community Services Linda Nugent Consortium for Older Adult Wellness Joe Linhoff Dupont Linhoff Patient Assessments Cara Tejada Family Tree - House of Hope Bernadette Loya Doctors Care
Shera Matthews Doctors Care
Val Purser SMHA
Traci Jones SMHA
Julie Collett Kids In Need of Dentistry
Lisa Traudt Arapahoe/Douglas Mental Health Network Claudine McDonald Colorado Access
Amy Ziereis Colorado Access
Next meeting: Monday, March 19, 2012 Time: TBD, Location: TBD
I. Welcome
Lisa Traudt of Arapahoe/Douglas Mental Health Network, Membership Chair and Board Member of the South Metro Health Alliance, welcomed everyone to the
meeting and introduced Val Purser, SMHA’s Director of Community Mobilization, and Traci Jones, SMHA’s new Membership Associate.
II. Introductions
Everyone introduced themselves and the organization they were representing. III. Colorado Access presentation
Claudine McDonald and Amy Ziereis of Colorado Access gave a PowerPoint
presentation which provided an overview of how to best tap into their services for our members’ clients.
Colorado Access is dedicated to the operation of a competitive health plan designed to improve access to needed health care directly for enrolled members, and indirectly through its partners, to all underserved Coloradans with an emphasis upon primary care and the maintenance of the continuum of care.
Colorado Access is a nonprofit health plan that provides access to behavioral and physical health services for Coloradans. Established in late 1994, the company is sponsored by Children's Hospital Colorado, Colorado Community Managed Care Network and University of Colorado Hospital/University Physicians, Inc. They currently have four active lines of business:
*Access Behavioral Care
*Child Health Plan Plus offered by Colorado Access *Colorado Access Advantage (Medicare)
*Regional Care Collaborative Organization (RCCO)
Colorado Access also provides administrative services for the CHP+ State Managed Care Network and CHP+ Prenatal Care Program.
You can find a copy of the presentation on our website
www.southmetrohealthalliance.org under Get Involved > Meeting Resources. For more information or to tour Colorado Access, you may contact Claudine directly at Claudine.McDonald@coaccess.com or call 720 744 5610.
IV. Networking
Lisa Traudt talked about SMHA’s goals of sharing information between our members, utilizing the resources we have in our Alliance, and defining our vulnerable
population. (For example, patients who may have healthcare but are still not able to afford their co-payments.)
Lisa invited our members to talk about their organization and what they would like to get out of being part of the South Metro Health Alliance:
Gloria Chavira of the Arapahoe Library District: As the Spanish Language Librarian, Gloria works a lot with Spanish speakers and wants to know more about the health community so that she can use the information to help give information to the people she works with, to build awareness of the assistance that’s out there. Dulce Mendoza of CSU Extension SNAP-Ed – CSU Extension SNAP-Ed are not healthcare providers but they provide information and education to limited-resource adults to help them have nutritionally sound diets. Dulce would like to learn about the health care resources available in the community so that she can refer her students to them.
Julie Collett of Kids in Need of Dentistry – KIND are celebrating 100 years of offering affordable dental treatment to children – congratulations! Uninsured patients qualifying for the program are asked to pay 20% of the total value of services
provided. They have three dental clinics, and a mobile bus which is coming to Littleton between February 21 and March 1 at the Doctors Care clinic parking lot. They also visit schools and will be going to 84 elementary schools in 10 districts this year.
Shera Matthews of Doctors Care – Doctors Care are the medical home for the uninsured and those who have Medicaid or Child Health Plus. Appointments can be made for sick visits, physicals, gynecological services, immunizations, mental health counseling, mental health medication, ADD/AHD visits, and development screenings. Mike Pattarozzi of Englewood Fire Department – After the fire department gets a call, they easily lose track so they don’t know if the person in need get services or not. The Alliance would be good for looking more at prevention and to help them with follow-ups. Lisa Traudt commented that AMHND do extensive outreach through Crisis In Training (CIT) programs with law enforcement officers and it would be interesting to see if they could do something similar. Shera commented that Doctors Care would be happy to present to the Englewood Fire Department at a group
meeting.
Nancy Wenig of Englewood Victim Assistance – Victim Assistance make referrals to CIT and the fire department.
Chris Katzenmeyer of Consortium for Older Adult Wellness – COAW is a network of over 1,000 professionals in the fields of nursing, social work, home health, higher education, health administration, therapeutic recreation, occupational therapy, physical therapy, gerontology, nutrition, exercise physiology, allopathic and complementary medicine, public health administration and more. The COAW do a lot of work regarding falls prevention and in the area of chronic disease
self-management.
Joe Linhoff of Dupont Linhoff Patient Assessments – Dupont Linhoff measure quality of care by electronically surveying patients and staff. Their goal is to help hospitals and clinics improve their organizational efficiency and assess their needs in the areas of patient safety-culture, health-assessment and patient satisfaction for use in staff training, management evaluation and grant funding opportunities. Ashley Greenhow of Alternatives Pregnancy Center – Alternatives Pregnancy Center offer free and confidential pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, STD treatments and testing etc. to their vulnerable population, and they see a lot of minors who don’t want their parents to know. At present, they don’t provide ongoing natal care so it would be good to be in the SHMA to find out what else is out there.
Kevin Bert of ARTS – ARTS stands for Addiction Research and Treatment Services, behavioral healthcare for adults, adolescents and families. Their mission is to save lives and improve the quality of life for persons struggling with substance abuse and dependence, through the application of empirically supported treatments. The Addiction Research and Treatment Services (ARTS) is the clinical program of the Division of Substance Dependence, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Denver School Of Medicine. ARTS has provided residential and outpatient
empirically supported substance abuse treatment services in Colorado for over 33 years, with an emphasis on psychosocial and pharmacological treatments for
adolescents, women, men, families and those involved in the criminal justice system. They specialize in helping pregnant women and women with children through their Haven project. Kevin can be contacted at kevin.bert@ucdenver.edu or on 303 282 2626.
Cara Tejada of FamilyTree’s House of Hope – House of Hope is a nonprofit to help people overcome child abuse, domestic violence and homelessness. They have a 90-day shelter for women in Englewood with a waiting list and they give priority to Arapahoe County residents. At present they have a health clinic for few hours, two or three nights a month staffed by doctors & nurses from Kaiser and it would be good to know how they can expand the volunteer-health clinic. At present, they would like more membership from the health care field and people are encouraged to attend their meetings once a month, every 2nd Tuesday at Englewood Library at 1pm. Cara can be contacted at ctejada@thefamilytree.org or on 303 762 9525.
Maria Pearson of Inter Faith Community Services – All of Inter-Faith’s programs are intended to get people back on their feet and on their way to self-sufficiency. They are best known for their food and clothing banks. The SMHA will be useful in knowing where to refer vulnerable people to so that they have a safety net. Lisa Traudt of Arapahoe/Douglas Mental Health Network - Arapahoe Douglas Mental Health Network is offering Open Access walk in appointments for initial assessments of BHI Medicaid consumers living in Arapahoe and Douglas counties. Adult walk-in times are M-F 8:00 to 12:00 at 5500 S. Sycamore Street, Littleton, CO 80120. Child/Adolescent walk-in times are M-F 8:00 to 11:00 at 61 West Davies, Littleton CO 80120.
In addition, indigent children ages 0-11 (no insurance of any kind) who live in Arap/Douglas counties may also access our Child/Adolescent walk in times for initial assessments. Undocumented children are accepted. Children must have a serious emotional disorder. 95% discount off our assessed fees is usually applied, but 100% discounted fees are also an option based on income and dependents.
BHI Medicaid consumers and indigent children ages 0-11 will meet with a masters level therapist to do an initial assessment and determine what services are medically necessary. For all other services or initial appointments, please call 303-730-8858. ADMHN accepts over 70 private insurances and Medicaid for all residents, and Medicare (for Arap/Douglas residents).
Kathy Leslie of Mission Hills Church - Mission Hills Church are involved in many community events, including food banks which are a great source for finding people who are falling through the cracks. Kathy encourages members to check out the food banks in their local area.
V. HIE & HEALTH NAVIGATION efforts report
Val talked briefly about SMHA’s work with CORHIO (Colorado Regional Health Information Organization), and that Boomers Leading Change in Health will be speaking at our next General Membership meeting on Monday, March 19. Val encourages members to look at having a health navigator if they have space, which can lead to cost savings for providers. Good news - Qwest Diagnostics and Centura have joined CORHIO. We are moving toward that model. As with all technology, the expense is starting to go down. Val encourages you to go to CORHIO’s website and see who has already signed up. They are making great strides!
http://www.corhio.org/
VI. SMHA Proposed Standing Committees
Our membership is made up of a mixture of providers and community-based organizations – we support the community as a team. SMHA are setting up Committees and invite our members to serve on one of the following:
Communications, Data Collection, Health Information Exchange, Membership, and Recognition.
Definitions of these committees can be found on our website at
www.southmetrohealthalliance.org in the Members section. To join, just complete the Membership Application form which can also be found on our website.
Joining SMHA as an official member also means that we will add a link to your organization on our website. We are now on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn and we would love to share your organization’s news, events or information … contact Traci Jones, our Membership Associate with the details at
tjones@southmetrohealthalliance.org. VII. Adjourn
Lisa Traudt thanked everyone for attending.
