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Many people
across the state are working to proactively shape the future of our
health system including undertaking important activities to improve the
health payment system, strategically plan for a
future health workforce, implementing statewide
use of health information technology and
planning for the health benefits exchange.
You can find more
information here.
Health System
Workforce Initiative
The Arkansas
Center for Health Improvement has been asked to provide
primary staffing to Dr. Dan Rahn, Chancellor,
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and
Dr. Paul Halverson, State Health Director,
Arkansas Department of Health, for a Health
System Workforce Initiative. The goal is to
respond to a directive from Governor Mike Beebe
to
advance a transformational strategic plan for
the Arkansas health workforce. The strategic
plan will describe options and recommendations
for Arkansas’s optimal health workforce, uses of
technology, and navigation and coordination of
care. It will provide a roadmap for health and
workforce-related entities throughout the state,
and will recommend approaches to workforce
education, training, development, recruitment,
retention, incentives, distribution,
coordination and structure.
The final product will be the Arkansas Health
Workforce Strategic Plan, which will be
delivered to Governor Mike Beebe by January 31,
2012.
More information
including taskforce members, meeting
schedule, work products and resources.
This is one component of a major initiative
overseen by Dr. Joe Thompson to
proactively shape the
future of our health care system
to better meet the needs of Arkansans.
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Periodic stakeholder
meetings will be open to the public and
input will be sought on a variety of
issues pertaining to Arkansas's health
system. Please use the stakeholder
comment
form
if you have an
idea or
opinion you want considered by one of
the taskforces.
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Archives
Despite Industry
Promises, Yale Study Finds Unprecedented
Marketing of Sugary Drinks to Youth
Arkansas Surgeon
General, Dr. Joe Thompson, to host Summit -- Building a Better Arkansas Health System for the
21st Century
New Tool Kit
Available for Local Officials from Let's Move
Cities & Towns
Diabetes kills
one person every seven seconds
Dr. Thompson and
Arkansas Education Commissioner, Dr. Tom Kimbrell, Celebrate Successful Joint Use
Agreement Projects
Lavaca School
District FIRST Arkansas USDA Healthier US
Challenge, NATIONAL BRONZE AWARD SCHOOL (May 4,
2011)
Governor Mike
Beebe Signs New Law Protecting
Children Under Age 14 From Secondhand Smoke
While Riding in Vehicles
Health Care Providers
Discuss Medicaid Cost Saving Measures
Arkansas Tobacco
Settlement Commission Awards Child Wellness
Intervention
Grants to Schools
Dr. Thompson
Joins Forces with Arkansas Coalition for Obesity
Prevention to Discuss Obesity Prevention with
Arkansas Mayors
Center for
Studying Health Systems Change Releases New
Report
Arkansas Tobacco
Settlement Commission Now Taking Applications
For School Grants
National Childhood Obesity
Awareness Month Celebrated with Focus on Physical Activity
Arkansas Coalition for
Obesity Prevention (ArCOP) Now Accepting
Applications for Growing Healthy Communities
Grants
ACHI Director, Dr. Joe
Thompson, participates in panel discussion with
American Cancer Society Mid-South Division
ACHI Executive
Associate Director Named Assistant Dean at UAMS
College of Public Health
Arkansas Minority
Health Summit Includes Former U.S. Surgeons
General
U.S. Surgeon
General, Dr. Regina Benjamin, Visits ACHI
Dr. Joe Thompson Blogs
About the Recent White House Obesity Summit on
EquityBlog.
Arkansas Baptist College
Hosts Minority Health Month and Public Health
Week News Conference
North Little Rock
Celebrates Public Health Week at Location of New Argenta Market
Delta
Garden Study Breaks Ground
Arkansas Tobacco
Settlement Commission Joins the Movement to
Reverse Childhood Obesity
ACHI Director Appears on C-SPAN's Washington
Journal.
State Coverage
Initiatives Reports Release of New Brief On
Impact of
Health Reform on States
Michelle Obama to Fight
Child Obesity at Grass Roots
Boone
and Newton Counties Receive One of 41 Community
Grants From the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities
Initiative.
Arkansas to Participate in
Safe Routes to School National Partnership's
2010-2011 State Network Project
ACHI Honors Long-Time
Friends and Welcomes New Annual Sponsor During
Annual Holiday Party
Senator
Blanche Lincoln Discusses Health Care
Reform with Governor's
Roundtable
on Health Care
ACHI's Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood
Obesity
Hosts
Healthy Kids, Healthy Nation: Reversing
the Childhood Obesity Epidemic
by 2015
ACHI Releases New Report:
The Impact of National Health Care Reform on
Arkansas
Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity
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