Sustainable Financing for Home-Based Asthma Services: Snapshots of Innovation and Progress Across the Country

Asthma home visiting is an evidence-based intervention proven to reduce healthcare costs and improve asthma outcomes. Despite robust evidence of their impact, however, programs historically have had to rely on unstable grant funding to provide services. But in recent years, that pattern has begun to shift, and we have seen progress in communities and states across the country in building systems for sustainable asthma home visiting services.

There are many pathways for achieving sustainable home-based asthma services. As such, progress can look different from one place to the next. This webinar, hosted by Regional Asthma Management & Prevention (RAMP) and the National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH), will feature success stories from across the country, highlighting both state Medicaid policy advances, and stories about local partnerships, and other innovations that create a groundswell for statewide change; all serving as models for new community action.

Learning Objectives: By the end of this webinar, participants will:

• Understand what progress and pathways for building systems to expand and sustain access to home-based asthma services might look like
• Identify one or more pathways that may lead toward sustainable home-based asthma services in their community or state • Know how to access free technical assistance and tools to support efforts in their community or state.

Panelists:

• Lynly Siag, New York State Department of Health
• Peggy Gaddy, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
• Eric Armbrecht, Saint Louis University
• Natalie Talis, Alexandria Health Department
• Molly Zemke, Wisconsin Department of Health Services
• Paula Holigan, New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services