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Engaging Community Members and Providers in Implementing Illinois' State Innovation Plan


Monday, November 2, 2015 : 10:30 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.

Michael Gelder, MHA, Director, Office of Health Innovation and Transformation, State of Illinois, evanston, IL
Jennifer McGowan, School of Public Health, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL
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In June 2014, the Governor’s Office of Health Innovation and Transformation (GOHIT) initiated an intensive stakeholder engagement process to recommend how Illinois should implement the requested Section 1115 Medicaid waiver reforms and the broader health system transformation innovations in the State Innovation Model Test grant application. GOHIT established work groups for state agencies and interested organizations and individuals to reach consensus on how the state would implement the the Alliance for Health Innovation Plan and Medicaid reform innovations. This process enabled community stakeholders to play an active role in the implementation the Alliance’s innovations. The work groups addressed the health system transformation drivers identified in the Innovation Plan and the 1115 waiver application: • Integrated Delivery System and Payment Reform • Supports and Services for people with specific needs • Public health integration • Workforce expansion • Data and technology, for continuous health system improvement. 

This paper describes the process GOHIT developed to actively engage 800+ public and private sector stakeholders. GOHIT designated a chair-and co-chairperson and a subject matter expert and provided logistical support for each work group. These work groups established subcommittees as necessary to cover all essential topics.

Two additional subcommittees were established to accommodate community interests and counterbalance the influence of the large health providers and health plans. Empowering community providers and organizations through this process will enable them to play a major health system transformation role necessary to improve personal, population, and community health.

This process can be replicated to engage community stakeholders in health policy consensus-building efforts.

Learning Areas:

Provision of health care to the public

Learning Objectives:
Describe the process that engaged more than 800 people, several hundred of whom used or provided community-based services throughout Illinois during 2014.

Keyword(s): Community Health Programs, Health Systems Transformation

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I was the director of the Governor's Office of Health Innovation and Transformation, which was created be Executive Order to lead and manage health system transformation in Illinois. The community engagement process to develop the Alliance for Health Implementation Plan was my responsibility. This effort followed the development of the State Innovation Model Design Plan, developed under a federal Model Design grant in 2013 under my direction.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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