Healthcare Reform Archives - Grafton

The Youngest Victims- Addressing the Need of Substance Exposed Infants

Sharlene Stowers, Local System Manager — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 14:12:11 +0000

In November 2016, in response to the significant increase in deaths due to opioid overdose, Governor Terry McAuliffe and Virginia Health Commissioner Marissa Levine declared a public emergency over the state’s opioid addiction crisis. The following are some staggering facts regarding this epidemic:

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Courage Is, as Courage Does

Dr. Janice LeBel, Director of System Transformation, MA Dept of Mental Health — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:28:39 +0000

“Give me tangible solutions— not comfort!”

These are Holly Ladd’s words, painstakingly, but emphatically, typed on an alphabet chart through eye scanning technology. The technology also translates her messages into her actual voice.

Holly is an award-winning, international health care lawyer, afflicted with a terminal disease. She has only days to live, but she is courageously leading her own care and demanding service on her own terms from her service providers.

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Action for Autism

Shweta Adyanthaya, Director, Communications — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 12:00:37 +0000

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that Autism Spectrum Disorder affects one out of every 68 births in the U.S. In the past two decades alone, the incidence of autism has increased by 600 percent. So how do we cope with the growing challenge? And how will we pay for it?

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Internal Quality Advancement (Don’t Rely on Someone Else to Make Your Organization Better)

Amy Smith, Director, Quality Assurance and Compliance — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:00:43 +0000

I have been involved with quality advancement activities at Grafton for 20 years. Now more than ever, I see leadership’s desire not just to follow best practice but to innovate and define best practices ourselves. I have been through many (many, many) regulatory inspections and accreditation surveys. While some of those experiences may have helped us shape our understanding about a matter, quite honestly just as often the experiences focused on areas that were not truly related to quality of our services.

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VA the ACA and Medicaid Expansion

Kent Houchins, Executive Vice President — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 13:00:37 +0000

In March of 2010, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (ACA). One of the ACA’s major provisions is Medicaid expansion. Under the law, states can broaden the Medicaid financial eligibility criteria to families and individuals making up to 133% of the federal poverty level ($15,400 per individual or $32,000 per family of four).This could provide access to more of Grafton’s lower income clients and many others across the state, but unfortunately at this time, the Virginia General Assembly has chosen not to expand this important program.

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