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Webinars & Briefings

TSF Webinar: Meeting the Needs of Severely Mentally Ill Medicare Beneficiaries: Strategies for Coordinating Care

Posted: February 19, 2013
 
Individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) have complex care needs, particularly due to their high likelihood of having other chronic conditions, which can have a dramatic effect on hospitalizations and Medicare spending. Recognizing the impact of SMI on both costs and quality of care, innovative clinicians and policymakers are working to develop strategies for better care coordination to meet the needs of this population.

TSF Webinar: Managed Care 101 - Presenting the Fundamentals of Integrating Long-Term Services and Supports into a Managed Care Model

Posted: December 14, 2012

As California Coordinated Care Initiative moves toward implementation, LTSS providers and other stakeholders are preparing to work with health plans as business partners. To be most successful in these roles, LTSS providers and advocates must know the fundamentals of managed care. Please join us for a webinar on how managed care is organized and functions, including considerations for LTSS providers and stakeholders working in this new space.

 

TSF Webinar - A New Tool for Financial Planning and Sustainability

Posted: October 9, 2012

This webinar introduced The SCAN Foundation's new Financial Planning and Sustainability Tool.  The presentation provided community-based organizations, non-profits, and potential grantees with information and resources regarding financial planning for their organizational programs or projects, including an overview for how to use the tool, and a case study from Bay Area Community Services.

TSF Webinar - The Future of Affordable Housing with Services

Posted: October 4, 2012

The SCAN Foundation hosted a webinar on how the residential care marketplace, which includes assisted living, is changing and what it means for the future of long-term care. The webinar highlighted findings from a new survey of residential care facilities and what these findings mean for seniors and policymakers.  For background information on this issue, please read our brief on Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly in California.

TSF Webinar: Recipients of Home- and Community-Based Services in California

Posted: August 14, 2012

On August 9, 2012, The SCAN Foundation hosted a webinar titled, "Recipients of Home- and Community-Based Services in California."  The presentation highlighted the results of a recently released report from the California Medicaid Research Institute (CAMRI) that describes the state's Medi-Cal funded services and the individuals who use them.

Alliance for Health Reform: Briefing Series -- Health Care Spending and How to Restrain it Intelligently

Posted: June 10, 2012

The Alliance for Health Reform organized three briefings to educate legislative staffers, the media, and other stakeholders who are dealing with health care spending issues to explore options for bending the health care cost curve. This series was co-funded by Ascension Health, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, California HealthCare Foundation, The Commonwealth Fund, and Kaiser Family Foundation.

Please click on the links below to view event details.

Alliance for Health Reform -- Four Briefings on the Mechanics, Dynamics and Politics of Deficit Reduction

Posted: November 10, 2011

Alliance for Health Health Reform, with support from The SCAN Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Commonwealth Fund, and the Kaiser Family Foundation, hosted a series of four briefings on the mechanics, dynamics, and politics of the federal deficit reduction debate.

  1. To watch the video of the Thursday, November 10, 2011 briefing titled, "Inside Deficit Reduction: What it Means for Medicaid," featuring moderator Bruce Chernof, M.D., president and CEO of The SCAN Foundation, please click here.
  2. To watch the video of the Tuesday, October 11, 2011 briefing titled, "Inside Deficit Reduction: What It Means for Medicare," please click here.
  3. To watch the video of the Monday, September 12, 2011 briefing titled, "Inside Deficit Reduction: What It Means for Health Care," please click here.

TSF Webinar: Vulnerable Medicare Beneficiaries: Opportunities to Transform the System of Care

Posted: October 12, 2011

On Wednesday, October 13, 2011 The SCAN Foundation hosted its fourth Foundation Policy Roundtable webinar titled "Vulnerable Medicare Beneficiaries: Opportunities to Transform the System of Care for Seniors with Chronic Conditions and Functional Limitations."

TSF Webinar: Marketing CLASS: Key Issues and Supply Side Perspectives

Posted: May 24, 2011

On Wednesday, May 25, 2011, The SCAN Foundation hosted the third webinar in its Policy Roundtable series entitled, "Marketing CLASS: Key Issues and Supply Side Perspectives."  Participants heard first-hand about some of the key considerations for CLASS implementation highlighted in The SCAN Foundation's CLASS Technical Assistance Briefs, such as lessons learned from the "Own Your Future" campaign in regard to the best means and messages to encourage long-term care planning and how this information may be useful for communications outreach for the CLASS Plan.  The webinar also covered the “service fulfillment” challenges posed by the prospect of a fully operational CLASS Plan. If in-home services and supports are to be deployed in the homes of millions of consumers, then efficient and effective mechanisms are needed to connect consumers with workers.   

  • To view the slides of Lisa Shugarman, Ph.D, director of policy at The SCAN Foundation, please click here.
  • To view the slides of Eileen Tell, M.P.H., of Univita, please click here.
  • To view the slides of Dorie Seavey, Ph.D., of PHI, please click here.

To view the video of the webinar, please click here.  Please input your name and the following Recording ID: 52B734. No recording key is required.

TSF Webinar: Assessing Need for the CLASS Benefit

Posted: May 17, 2011

On Wednesday, May 18, 2011, The SCAN Foundation hosted the second webinar in its Policy Roundtable series entitled, "Assessing Need for the CLASS Benefit: Lessons Learned from Public & Private Systems."  Participants heard first-hand about some of the key considerations for CLASS implementation highlighted in The SCAN Foundation's CLASS Technical Assistance Briefs, such as the benefit eligibility assessment process in the

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