Older adults with serious mental illness (SMI) often have multiple comorbidities and complex medication schedules. Shortages of behavioral health specialists (BHSs), especially in rural areas,...
Author(s): Ulrike Muench, Matthew Jura, Cindy Parks Thomas, Jennifer Perloff, and Joanne Spetz
Nationwide experts on rural health assert that leadership training would benefit health and health care in rural communities. Most available leadership development programs for health care leaders in...
Author(s): Emily Shen, Renae Waneka, Gina Lima, and Sunita Mutha
This report reviews the use of teledentistry following the COVID-19 pandemic in 4 states—California, Maine, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—and the supports needed to enhance dental care in a post-COVID-...
Author(s): Miranda Werts, Prashanta Patel, and Elizabeth Mertz
Buprenorphine is associated with decreased mortality from opioid use disorder, but prescribing is limited in office-based settings to clinicians with federal waivers. To expand this workforce, on...
Author(s): Thuy Nguyen, Barbara Andraka-Christou, Camila Arnaudo, W. David Bradford, Kosali Simon, and Joanne Spetz
Previous research has documented shortages of personal care aides who provide Medicaid home and community-based services, but there are few detailed geographic data to determine the areas of greatest...
Author(s): Susan A. Chapman, Lillie Greiman, Timothy Bates, Laura M. Wagner, Ari Lissau, Kirsi Toivanen-Atilla, and Rayna Sage
Objective
This study examines the individual, educational, and policy factors that predict dentists pursuing postgraduate dental (PGD) training.
Methods
Individual dentist records from the 2017...
Author(s): Timothy Bates, Matthew Jura, Miranda Werts, Aubri Kottek, Bradley Munson, Marko Vujicic, and Elizabeth A. Mertz
Objective
Postgraduate dental (PGD) primary care training has grown significantly. This study examines the individual, educational, community, and policy factors that predict practice patterns of PGD...
Author(s): Elizabeth A. Mertz, Timothy Bates, Aubri Kottek, Matthew Jura, Miranda Werts, Bradley Munson, and Marko Vujicic
A healthcare workforce representative of the race/ethnicity composition of the population it serves is central to addressing systemic health inequities. The aim of this study was to assess workforce...
Author(s): Edward Hynson, Jason Bloomer, Zoe Samson, Kiersten Price, Daniel Tran, and Ulrike Muench
During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was slower growth in the number of new waivers authorizing clinicians to provide buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder. However, treatment capacity grew...
Author(s): Joanne Spetz, Laurie Hailer, Caryl Gay, Matthew Tierney, Laura A. Schmidt, Bethany Phoenix, and Susan A. Chapman
In October of 2021, California mandated commercial insurance coverage of screening for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in addition to ACEs screening already covered for the Medi-Cal enrollees....
Author(s): Riti Shimkhada, Jacqueline Miller, Elizabeth Magnan, Marykate Miller, Janet Coffman, and Garen Corbett
