
GERIATRICS LUNCHTIME LEARNING
Jointly provided by the West Virginia Geriatric Society, CAMC Institute & the
WVU/CAMC Geriatric Education Center
Memorial Hospital- WVU Building Room 2000
General Hospital- Rooms 101-102
View online live and YouTube Live Feed
Wednesday, September 27, 2017 12:00 noon – 1:00pm
SPEAKER:
David Clayman, PhD
Director, Clayman and Associates, PLLC
Self-Enrollment SOLE course link:

Over 3,000 people have signed up for the 2017 HRSA Virtual Behavioral Health Workforce conference next Wednesday, September 13, 2017. Don’t miss your chance to join them! Time is running out, register today at https://www.hrsa.gov/virtual-behavioral-health-conference/
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By Leigh Nestor/Exponent Telegram
CLARKSBURG — With West Virginia’s incredibly high rates of diseases linked to lifestyle, some medical professionals consider socioeconomics as the real cause of the state’s failing health.
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, West Virginia ranks high in general poor health, cardiovascular disease, cholesterol, stroke, hypertension, obesity, poor nutrition, high sodium intake and high sugar intake.
The counties with high rates of obesity are the same ones with high rates of sleeplessness, Program Director for United Hospital Center Dr. Eric Radcliffe said, noting it as a symptom of a root cause in lifestyle…
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By Les Masterson/Healthcare Dive
- A new JAMA report found payment formulas that ignore “social risk can underpay for vulnerable populations, potentially exacerbating inequality.”
- The study looked at Massachusetts’ Medicaid program MassHealth’s social determinants of health (SDH) payment model that supports care for vulnerable members and improves payment equity.
- Massachusetts was the first state in the nation in October 2016 to create a payment model that adds SDH variables to medical diagnoses, age and sex.
The study looked at MassHealth’s payment model and whether a model that includes SDH can provide more equitable payments for the care of socially vulnerable people.
The payment model removes or significantly reduces underpayments for several subgroups in hopes of allowing clinicians to “better meet the needs of socially vulnerable patients,” according to the study.
The payment model “allocates payments within a fixed budget accounting for socioeconomic and psychosocial as well as medical risk.” As an example, the payment model may pay doctors more for patients living in distressed neighborhoods. That money can be used to support innovations that address “social complexity,” such as helping patients find housing, teaching better nutrition or creating IT infrastructure to link at-risk patients with doctors.
“Such programs could draw more people with complex problems — those who have the most to gain from coordinated care — into managed care,” wrote the study authors…
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By Wendy Holdren/Beckley Register-Herald
To help keep kids safe and in their homes, FMRS Health Systems in Beckley is offering a new way to respond to emotional and behavioral crises — the Children’s Mobile Crisis Response.
“We help them de-escalate the crisis so the child can remain in their home and in their community,” said Tracy King, director of children’s services at FMRS. “We want to see a decrease in kids going into acute care, hospital care or out of state for residential treatment.”
The Children’s Mobile Crisis Response, a pilot project funded through a Bureau for Behavioral Health and Health Facilities grant, has been operational in Raleigh County for the past six months. King said of the roughly 80 responses, only two children have required acute care…
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