NASHP's 2008 State Health Policy Conference Presentations: Charting a Course for State Health Policy

integrated services; reform; oral health; medical home; health management; 1915(i); 1915(j); public policy; Bridging the Gulf: Building Interagency Partnerships for Quality Improvement; In the Mainstream: Integrating Mental Health with Primary Care; Checking Their Bearings: Health Care Reform in Massachusetts, Vermont, and Maine; Putting Long-Term Care on an Even Keel; It’s Not a House, It’s a Medical Home; Don’t Treat Me Like a Kid! Challenges in Covering and Caring for Adolescents; Pulling on the Lines Together – Using HIT to Integrate the Primary Care Safety Net; Putting the Health in Health Care Reform: Using Public Health Approaches to Focus on Outcomes; Creating Incentives to Convert Nursing Homes Into Home and Community-Based Options; Remaking Disease Management Into Health Management; Driving Value and Quality with State Purchasing Innovations; Covering All Kids and Keeping Them That Way; No Waivers Needed: Covering Long-Term Care Services in the Community; All Aboard! Finding and Enrolling Hard-to-Reach Populations; Keeping the Wind in Their Sails: Encouraging and Supporting Employer Coverage; Help Wanted: State Strategies on Health Care Workforce Planning; Turning the Tide: Promoting Cultural Change in Nursing Homes; Using Purchasing, Partnerships, and Payments to Improve Patient Safety; Benchmark Plan or HSA? Wisconsin and Indiana’s Different Tacks to Expanding Coverage with Medicaid; Closing the Divide: Health Care for Immigrant Families; Overcoming Conflicting Incentives in Managed Long-Term Care