DSRIP Projects: Resources, Tools and Tips

• DSRIP Project Considerations
  In this document, CHCANYS presents information on select DSRIP projects from Domains 2, 3, and 4. These are projects that FQHCs should or could play a leadership or central role in designing and implementing.
  
  
• Literature Review on Selected DSRIP Programs: Reducing Hospital Admissions
  Provided in this document are brief summaries and/or descriptions of published studies on outcomes related to reducing hospital admissions for projects and strategies associated with DSRIP Domains 2, 3, and 4. The document focuses on those projects identified by New York State for planning considerations among Performing Provider Systems that are relevant to participation by FQHCs.

Other Resources 

• Reducing Hospital Readmissions: Lessons from a Multi-Hospital Initiative
  The Preventable Hospital Readmission Initiative was launched by the United Hospital Fund in 2011. Its first stage helped seven New York City hospitals identify the causes of preventable readmissions in their facilities; in its second stage, four of those hospitals tested and implemented specific interventions to address those causes. This report gives an overview of the initiative: how it was run, results from its two stages, and lessons learned from its various findings and interventions. 
  
  
• An Examination of New York State’s Integrated Primary and Mental Health Care Services for Adults with Serious Mental Illness
  This RAND Corporation report, funded by NYSHealth, examines several approaches that New York State community mental health centers have taken to improve the integration of behavioral health and primary care services for adults with serious mental illness.
  
  
• State Strategies for Integrating Physical and Behavioral Health Services in a Changing Medicaid Environment
  This report from The Commonwealth Fund provides an overview of the various approaches states are utilizing in order to break down siloes between the delivery of physical and behavioral health services.

• Hospital Guide to Reducing Medicaid Readmissions
  This guide from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality identifies ways evidence-based strategies to reduce readmissions can be adapted or expanded to better address the transitional care needs of the adult Medicaid population.