Association Executives - Attached fyi please find our press release announcing the white paper "Tradition of Excellence and Innovation". The white paper can be found on the CMHA website at:
https://cmham.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CHI2-tradition-of-excellence-and-innovation-May-2020-updated.pdf
This paper was developed, by the Center for Healthcare Integration and Innovation (CHI2), the policy arm of our association, CMHA, to provide an accurate picture of the performance of Michigan's public mental health system and examines the performance of Michigan's public mental health system against a number of state-established and national standards.
This paper underscores the very high levels of performance that Michigan's public mental health system, in partnership with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS), has demonstrated, over decades, on a number of dimensions of healthcare quality and innovation.
This high level of performance was found in an examination of a number of components of the system's operations:
- longstanding strong performance against the state-established and nationally recognized performance standards
- nation-leading de-institutionalization
- high rankings against national standards of behavioral health prevalence and access to services
- proven ability to control costs over decades
- pursuit of healthcare integration; use of evidence-based and promising practices and the infrastructure to support their use.
This white paper was one component in this association's broader Accurate Picture Campaign. This campaign which also led to submission of a large number of "heroic stories" and considerable press coverage around the good work done by Michigan's public mental health system. Those stories and news coverage, continually updated, can be found at: https://cmham.org/newsroom/ .
Feel free to share this press release and the white paper with our colleagues and your media contacts, as you see fit.
Robert Sheehan
Chief Executive Officer
Community Mental Health Association of Michigan
426 South Walnut Street
Lansing, MI 48933
(517) 374-6848 www.cmham.org
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Robert Sheehan
Chief Executive Officer
Community Mental Health Association of Michigan
Lansing MI
(517)374-6848
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