Course Description:

Safety net health care providers in Michigan continue to deal with evolving issues not only resulting from the pandemic, and an ever-changing health care policy and delivery environment. Safety net health care providers are seeing significant changes in issues such as Medicaid policies, mental health, the workforce to deliver health care, health care access and quality, social determinants of health and equity. Since the Affordable Care Act became law in 2011, more than 50 percent of Michigan's uninsured gained coverage, expanding their access to care. Newly insured, uninsured, and under-insured patients continue to move between free clinics, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Rural Health Centers, and other safety net health care providers seeking high quality medical, dental and behavioral health care.

Twelve years later, health care issues, policies, coverage, and care continue to evolve under the ever-changing political and health care delivery environment. Learners will leave the Healthy Safety Net 2023 program with a better understanding of these emerging, equity, policy and programmatic issues and be better able to identify strategies to improve the medical, dental and behavioral health of Michigan's most vulnerable residents whom they serve in their communities. They will be able to develop innovative strategies, programs, and partnerships responsive to the changing environment and the growing need for expanded access to behavioral health care.

Course Link: 
www.bcbsm.com/healthysafetynet

CE Value (credits): 5
CE Type: Standard

Sponsor Name:
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

Contact Information:
Kimberly Kratz
517-325-4602
healthysafetynet@bcbsm.com

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