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To help inform health care workforce development planning in New Hampshire, the Endowment for Health supported a review of the workforce development plans of other states with large rural areas to understand their structure, components (i.e., areas of focus and strategies), and implementation plans. Hope Worden Kenefick, MSW, Ph.D. reviewed and summarized relevant documents available for nine states and interviewed representatives from a sub-set of the states. In 2021, the consultant conducted an additional scan to learn about progress made in the nine states and to understand the efforts of four states identified as having made significant progress on health care workforce development.

The “Health Equity: State-Level Promising Practices, Policies, and System Reforms Report,” completed in June 2019, proposes a framework for understanding how five states have significantly advanced efforts to promote health equity – attaining the highest level of health for all people. The report provides in depth profiles of health equity work underway in five states, namely Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, Washington, and Wisconsin, all of which share commonalities with New Hampshire. The report aims to inform, affirm, and encourage NH state leaders to invest in health equity.

The Executive Summary of “Health Equity: State-Level Promising Practices, Policies, and System Reforms Report,” completed in June 2019, provides a high level view of a framework for understanding how five states have significantly advanced efforts to promote health equity – attaining the highest level of health for all people. The Executive Summary provides spotlights of health equity work underway in five states, namely Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, Washington, and Wisconsin, all of which share commonalities with New Hampshire. The report aims to inform, affirm, and encourage NH state leaders to invest in health equity.

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To help inform health care workforce development planning in New Hampshire, the Endowment for Health supported a review of the workforce development plans of other states with large rural areas to understand their structure, components (i.e., areas of focus and strategies), and implementation plans. Hope Worden Kenefick, MSW, Ph.D. reviewed and summarized relevant documents available for nine states and interviewed representatives from a sub-set of the states.

Under a NH DSRIP 115 waiver, New Hampshire's IDN's have been working to address behavioral healthcare workforce shortages. The technical conclusion of the waiver which supports the IDN work was December 2020. This report by Hope Worden Kenefick, MSW, Ph.D. summarizes the work done, what was learned and what remains incomplete.

This policy brief summarizes key health care cases including challenges to the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid work and community engagement requirements, due process rights for people with acute mental illness, state authority to regulate pharmacy benefit managers and access to reproductive health.

This brief provides an overview of the health insurance landscape in NH, as well as updated policy explanations for shifts and changes in access. This update also includes a special section focused on premiums and deductibles in New Hampshire.

Under a NH DSRIP 115 waiver, New Hampshire's IDN's have been working to address behavioral healthcare workforce shortages. The technical conclusion of the waiver which supports the IDN work is December 2020. Hope Worden Kenefick, MSW, Ph.D. summarizes the work done, what was learned and what remains incomplete.

The NH Departments of Health and Human Services and Education remain committed to the development of NH’s system of care, an integrated and comprehensive delivery structure for the provision of publicly funded behavioral health services to NH children and youth. This Year 4 report provides critical updates on the progress toward these goals and celebrate the immense success achieved across NH in four short years.

Year 3 Report, May 2019