Q

How can we simplify access to care for aging residents?

By creating hubs with a No Wrong Door policy.

CHRT's RolE:

CHRT developed a governance structure for Community Care Hubs and provided strategic advice and technical assistance to existing and emerging care hubs in Michigan.

Impact:

CHRT advised Michigan and national organizations on Community Care Hub policy and joined a Michigan government workgroup on community-based hub structures.

Services: Community health needs assessment, report development, dissemination, proposal writing

partnership opportunities explored

Community Care Hub structural models developed

pillars of a successful Community Care Hub identified

Q

How can Michigan improve and better integrate Medicare and Medicaid services?

By transitioning the existing Mi Health Link program to a highly integrated, dual-eligible special needs plan in 2026.

CHRT's RolE:

CHRT gathered and analyzed stakeholder feedback from 10 health plans, 133 providers, 229 MI Health Link beneficiaries, and more than 4,500 beneficiaries in dual special needs plans.

Impact:

CHRT is helping state leaders design health plan requirements that will give Michigan’s medically frail seniors more choices and benefits with less hassle.

Services: Strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, survey design, data analytics, quantitative analysis, topic briefs.

83%

of MI Health Link respondents reported satisfaction with their providers

80%

of dual-eligible beneficiaries reported easy co-pay management

MI Health Link providers viewed consistent care and case management as a best practice in the program

Q

How can people successfully age with long-term physical disability?

Through autonomy and independence, as well as maintaining an active, healthy lifestyle and being part of a community.

CHRT's RolE:

From October 2021 to May 2022, CHRT surveyed 128 organizations serving individuals with long-term physical disabilities to define successful aging.

Impact:

CHRT published a paper to help organizations understand what it means to better support the successful aging of clients with physical disabilities.

Services: Sampling, Survey, Qualitative Measures and Analysis

domains for successful aging identified

45%

of organizations considered living arrangements an essential component of successful aging

34%

Supporting healthy aging

By 2030, 1 in 5 people in the United States will be age 65 or older. Many of these seniors will need special support for healthy aging.

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Q

How can we simplify access to care for aging residents?

By creating hubs with a No Wrong Door policy.

CHRT's RolE:

Impact:

partnership opportunities explored

Community Care Hub structural models developed

pillars of a successful Community Care Hub identified

Q

How can Michigan improve and better integrate Medicare and Medicaid services?

By transitioning the existing Mi Health Link program to a highly integrated, dual-eligible special needs plan in 2026.

CHRT's RolE:

Impact:

of MI Health Link respondents reported satisfaction with their providers

of dual-eligible beneficiaries reported easy co-pay management

MI Health Link providers viewed consistent care and case management as a best practice in the program

Q

How can people successfully age with long-term physical disability?

Through autonomy and independence, as well as maintaining an active, healthy lifestyle and being part of a community.

CHRT's RolE:

Impact:

domains for successful aging identified

of organizations considered living arrangements an essential component of successful aging

of organizations discussed the importance of social connection for successful aging

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