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A bipartisan group of state health policymakers from both the executive and legislative branches who are focused on improving population health.
Networks of state officials, advocates, and others aiming to invest in and transform primary care.
A program dedicated to advancing state-based efforts to make health care more affordable for residents, employers, and states.
The Milbank Memorial Fund supports two state leadership programs for legislative and executive branch state government officials committed to improving population health.
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A leadership program for senior state government officials who are committed to improving population health.
The Fund focuses on creating an affordable health care system built on strong primary care and partnerships that improve health outcomes for all.
Improving state leaders’ ability to enact and implement evidence-based health policies.
Advancing policies that create a more prevention- and primary care-oriented health system.
Improving population health through policies that contain health care cost growth.
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Short takes on health policy issues from Milbank staff and guest authors.
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Reported articles and Q&As on timely health policy issues, as well as foundation updates.
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The Milbank Memorial Fund is a private foundation that works to improve population health and health equity.
June 5, 2023
Policy Report
Jacob Rains
Candice Chen
Erin Fraher
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Access to high-quality primary care is critical to improving population health and ensuring a more equitable distribution of health and health care resources. In 2010, as a part of the Affordable Care Act, Congress created the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) program to support the development of primary care medical and dental residency programs in community-based health centers. In the last decade, the THCGME program has been training primary care providers to deliver care to underserved populations and practice in interprofessional teams. The goal is for these clinicians to better address community health needs, including chronic disease management, maternal care, and integrated behavioral health. The THCGME program’s successes — including training in team-based care settings that are responsive to community needs and training graduates who practice in medically underserved settings — can inform how and where we invest in training the primary care workforce, ways the nation can redesign and finance graduate medical education to meet population health needs, and how state health workforce investments can complement federal efforts to expand the workforce and improve health care for underserved populations.
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