The Michigan Public Health Institute (MPHI), in partnership with the Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) and local community companies, implements the Michigan Pathways to Better Health (MPBH) initiative. MPBH supports the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ targets of higher health, higher care, and decrease value via improvement, by assisting beneficiaries to deal with social service needs and hyperlink them to preventive health care providers. Community health workers (CHWs) are skilled and deployed to help Medicaid and/or Medicare grownup beneficiaries who have two or more continual circumstances and have well being and social service wants (corresponding to major care, housing, meals, and transportation). In other states, the mannequin has improved well being outcomes and lowered well being care prices.
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