Integrating Care for the Whole Person

Healthier Washington is the state’s vision for transforming the health care system to achieve better health, better care and lower costs for the

people of Washington State.

Panelists

• Vanessa Gaston, Director, Clark County Human Services

• Isabel Jones, Medicaid Integration Manager, Health Care Authority

• Joe Valentine, Administrator, N. Sound Behavioral Health Organization

The Healthier Washington Initiative

The goals of Healthier Washington are simple:• Healthier people and communities

• A transformed health care system that treats the whole person

• Affordable care

• Healthier Washington is employing three overarching strategies to achieve its transformation goals:• Supporting multi-sector engagement

• Integrating care and social supports

• Paying for value

• Accountable Communities of Health

• Analytics, interoperability, and measurement

• Integrated physical and behavioral health

• Paying for value

• Performance measures

• Practice transformation support hub

• Shared decision making

• Plan for improving population health

Many different strategies…withmany public and private partners

Ensuring care focuses on thewhole person

Today…

• Physical and behavioral health integration in Southwest Washington

• Mental health and substance use disorder integration in 9 regions of the state

Moving forward…

• Physical and behavioral health integration for Medicaid throughout the state by 2020

Early Adopter

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What’s Happening Statewide?

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