May 16, 2021- After years of study, a first-of-its-kind coalition of more than 50 groups — including the California Hospital Association, California Medical Association, county health directors, public safety officials and family-based organizations — intends to change that. The Behavioral Health Alliance’s new Blueprint for Behavioral Health offers a new path forward for addiction treatment and much more. The need for a new approach can be seen in public parks, under freeway overpasses and even in sober living homes. ragedy has provided a most unwelcome clarity. “What I’ve learned is that the better places aren’t these private programs,” she said. “It’s the public programs that take MediCal for low-income people where you get better care.
“I wish I had known that.”
Coalition members want everyone to know that, and they waste no words in saying so.
“They’re in a different world,” said Steve Fields, the Progress Foundation’s executive director, referring to California’s vast network of private treatment programs that run on private health insurance payments.
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