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Impacting Healthcare Reform '08:
Leadership in Moving the Mental Health
and Substance Use Care Agenda Ronald W. Manderscheid, PhD, Program Committee Chair Decision '08: Many see the Presidential election of 2008 as a “tipping point” in the national healthcare reform debate. Virtually every candidate has a position on reform. Where is mental health and substance use care in that debate? How will the debate influence our ability to coordinate services with physical health care? Can we influence the national debate? State Reform '08: Similarly, several key states have undertaken broad-based health insurance coverage initiatives. How do these initiatives relate to the national debate? Where are mental health and substance use care in those initiatives? How will the initiatives influence our ability to coordinate services with physical health care? Can we influence state coverage initiatives? Moving Our Agenda: Efforts at the local level to coordinate mental health, substance use, and physical health care continue to move forward. How do our physical health care colleagues see these efforts? What do we need to do together to move this agenda? Will national and state reform efforts change our agenda? If so, how? Summit 2008 brings these issues together as we explore ideas to move the agenda forward. You will leave better informed and better prepared. Join ACMHA at the Santa Fe Summit to be part of the solution in 2008! Questions may be directed to Kris Ericson, PhD, executive director (executive.director@acmha.org or 505-822-5038). ACMHA Pre-Summit Materials Additional Reports of InterestMental Health Weekly
Two recent issues of Mental Health Weekly include significant coverge of the 2008 Santa Fe Summit. The March 17 issue provides an exclusive report on Summit events, followed by the March 24 issue which includes an article on the integration panel of primary care physicians offered on Friday, March 14. Access to both issues is available from the links below. ACMHA extends its appreciation to the editors of Mental Health Weekly for providing these documents.
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