From Staff Reports
PITTSBURGH-The UPMC Center for High-Value Health Care secured a $3.76M award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to reduce barriers to critical behavioral health services for women both during and after pregnancy.
“Postpartum behavioral health screenings and services are only useful if they are accessible and delivered in ways that women will fully utilize them,” said Diane Holder, President and CEO, UPMC Health Plan. “We will use these PCORI funds to enhance our research on how to best structure both in-person services and digital tools to ensure they are relevant and user-friendly to mothers covered by Medicaid so they can receive the behavioral health care they need.”
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Echoing Pittsburgh’s groundbreaking 1960s-1970s initiative that provided emergency management service (EMS) training to economically disadvantaged individuals, UPMC and UPMC Health Plan have announced candidate recruitment is underway for the Hill District-based “Freedom House 2.0” program to train and employ a new generation of emergency responders. Freedom House 2.0 is funded from a $235,000 grant from Partner4Work, the public workforce investment board for Allegheny County, and builds upon UPMC’s Pathways to Work program and ongoing collaboration with the board on strategies to offer low-income individuals meaningful job training and support.
“This community-based training program recognizes how emergency response has evolved,” said Dan Swayze, UPMC Health Plan Vice President of Community Services and Director of Operations, UPMC Innovative Health Care Solutions. “UPMC and UPMC Health Plan understand that today’s paramedics need to take time to