Resources

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The Behavioral Health Improvement Institute developed an assessment process, Field Assessment Tool (FASST) to estimate field development across 7 domains and 32 items based on key informant interviews. The FASST was first used to assess the conditions of NH’s Early Childhood (EC) field in 2018; this report examines the results of a repeat assessment three years later.

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.

Listen to the recording of the June 16, 2021 event "Healthcare Sustainability: Perspectives on Cost, Affordability, and Access," hosted by UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law and the Institute for Health Policy and Practice.

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.