The latest news and insights about hot topics, collaborations, events and resources for our national network.
CEO INSIGHTS
Our strength as a trusted, community-centered national network comes not just from our size and scale, but from the intersections of our work where message, evidence, and action meet. This month was a vivid example of that alignment as we launched the “Here We Stand” campaign, published the new issue brief “Innovating Care Through Community Partnerships,” and hosted a Results Network convening with 50 leaders from across the country. This is how change happens.
— Alesia Frerichs, President & CEO
Highlights from this issue:
"Here We Stand" messaging and resources to defend and strengthen Medicaid
Results Network convenes to strengthen partnerships with Medicaid managed care
New issue brief: "Innovating Care through Community Partnerships," plus five LSA member case studies
The latest updates from Capitol Hill (take action)
LEADING TOGETHER
Here We Stand: New Medicaid Messaging
Our network recently launched “Here We Stand,” a communications framework and set of resources to support unified messaging as Congress considers cuts to Medicaid funding. The new campaign highlights our role as faith-based, nonprofit health and human service providers that keep people healthy, prevent higher costs, and reinvest in our communities. As Congressional action shifts to the Senate, these resources can support outreach to senators and the media.
Innovating Care through Community Partnerships that Leverage Medicaid Managed Care
With the ongoing shift to Medicaid managed care and value-based payment approaches, network members are working in partnership to improve outcomes for children and families.
More than 50 of our Results Network leaders gathered in Chicago earlier this month to shape strategies that address health-related social needs of children and families, to strengthen capacity for partnership with Medicaid managed care organizations.
New issue brief: To improve outcomes for children and families enrolled in Medicaid, learn how LSA member organizations are innovating care through partnership including with Medicaid managed care.
VIEW FROM THE HILL
The Latest on Medicaid and Other Important Issues
The House of Representatives passed its version of a budget reconciliation package that includes $715 billion in cuts to Medicaid as well as implications for nonprofit charitable organizations and Medicare. Action now moves to the Senate.
Members of the Lutheran Services in America Policy Committee, board of directors and Disability Network joined together for a series of meetings with key members of Congress as the fight to defend Medicaid from cuts continues. Members representing more than 20 Lutheran social service organizations met with 45 members of Congress, all of whom have jurisdiction over Medicaid funding.
Regan McManus presented at the American Society on Aging’s annual conference to share how the Rural Aging Action Network is advancing strategies that improve health outcomes and promote collaboration in underserved rural communities.
Save your spot as we continue to support unified messaging designed to defend Medicaid from funding cuts and emphasize our role as community-centered providers that reinvest in communities.
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