The holiday season is fast approaching, and with it comes a surge in demand for temporary and full-time workers in the retail industry. In Springfield and beyond, retailers such as Bass Pro Shops and Amazon are leading the way in the hunt for thousands of seasonal employees. Bass Pro Shops, is holding a national hiring […]
Part 1. Executive Summary 1.1 ACO Composition and Governance Structure
The BeHealthy Partnership envisions five health centers, together as Baystate Health Care Alliance an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) , and Health New England, a Managed Care Organization (MCO), coming together to achieve sustainable delivery system transformation to improve the health and lives of our members and their community.
Our BeHealthy Partnership is comprised of Health New England, the MCO, and five community health centers encompassing seven sites of care in Springfield. Health New England is a health plan with commercial, Medicare and Medicaid members. Health New England has worked closely with all of our partner health centers and our Medicaid leadership team members visit the health centers often and know many employees by name. Caring Health Center, with three sites, is a Federally Qualified Health Center. They provide adult and pediatric care, behavioral health and subs
By Benjamin Cox on January 30, 2021 at 8:36am
Morgan County’s unemployment rate spiked up a percentage point over the holidays. IDES released countywide numbers yesterday, with most areas of the state sitting at or slightly above pre-pandemic levels.
For the month of December, Morgan, Scott, Greene, and Cass counties were all between 4.9-5.3% unemployment. Pike and Brown counties have the lowest rates in West Central Illinois at 4.3 and 2.6 percent respectively. Despite the about average numbers, unemployment was up year over year all across the state. The number of nonfarm jobs decreased over-the-year in all fourteen Illinois metropolitan areas in December, according to preliminary data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Illinois Department of Employment Security.