Kaiser Permanente's Angel Vargas, Vice President, Care at Home, Southern CA & Hawaii
Release Date: 12/20/2021
California DHCS Chief Quality Officer Palav Babaria & 2023 Population Health Management Launch
PopHealth Podcast
Palav joins host Gavin Ward to discuss the new Popation Health Management efforts that DHCS is launching in 2023 in California. Before getting into the details, Palav reveals her competiveness in board games and where her passion for serving the safety net was inspired.
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Partnership HealthPlan of California's Rebecca Boyd Anderson and Population Health
PopHealth Podcast
Rebecca shares how her journey to become a nurse and experience with worker's compensation set a foundation that allowed her to build a population health department at Partnership Health Plan of California.
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CalOptima CEO Michael Hunn, a Former Priest, Discusses Medi-Cal and CalAIM
PopHealth Podcast
Michael joins the show ande breaks down new opportunities for care and support that are available through California's new CalAIM initiative. CalOptima is the largest insurer in Orange County, caring for over 25% of the Orange County population, which may be a surprise vs. what the general public may think of when it comes to the OC demographics.
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L.A. Care's Cynthia Carmona Shares How CalAIM Commmunity Supports Benefit Medi-Cal Members
PopHealth Podcast
L.A. Care's Senior Director of Safety Net Initiatives' background in policy and community service helped prepare her to serve beneficiaries for California's largest managed Medi-Cal provider. Cynthia breaks down how the new CalAIM community supports are helping equip L.A Care to better serve its 2+ million membership.
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New SCAN Health Plan Initiatives: CalAIM and PACE (myPlace Health)
PopHealth Podcast
SCAN's Sr. VP of Healthcare Services Eve Gelb joins SCAN backed myPlace Health Founder and CEO Robbie Pottharst in a 2-part episode that explores how SCAN is leveraging innovative models of care (ie CalAIM, PACE) that bring together both health and social services that historically were either unavailable and/or unable to be managed well with traditional models of care.
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Inland Empire Health Plan's (IEHP's) Dr. Takashi Wada and an Overview of CalAIM
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Dr. Wada shares how both his parents and UCLA were inspirtation in his choice to become a public servant, but not until after a stint as a bartender in London. Dr. Wada gives an overview of IEHP and how CalAIM is bringing enhanced care management and community supports to managed medi-cal beneficiaries across the Inand Empire and throughout California.
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Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care's Chris McLaughlin
PopHealth Podcast
Social workers, whether we know it or not, are in our lives direclty or indirectly on a daily basis, caring for us, our loves ones, and our community. Chris joins the show to share how the Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care brings together up and coming social work leaders alongside veterans to advocate, collaborate, and cultivate an envionrment that ultimately benefits all served by social workers in healthcare. Chris also shares about their upcoming annual conference in October in Nashville, TN.
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Providence St. John's Health Center Director of Case Management Debbie Pacheco
PopHealth Podcast
Case Management leaders help ensure hospitals are running smoothly and efficiently, while at the same time leading a team that equips patients for success once they discharge from a hospital, or what Providence may call a "ministry." Debbie joins the show and will touch on her journey and how she leads a team serving patient populations of all types in Santa Monica, CA.
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Chris Johnson, CEO, Landmark Health
PopHealth Podcast
When recording this episode, Chris was actually the head of corporate development for Landmark, one of the innovators of truly having skin in the game for serving the sickest of the sick in the home. Chris shares how Landmark doesn't take a penny unless it saves its partners through deployment of healthcare providers in the home.
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Josh Luke- Ten Years of the Hospital Readmission Penalty: Lesson Learned & Best Practice Providers
PopHealth Podcast
Hospital Readmissions Guru and Healthcare Futurist Dr. Josh Luke takes a look back over the past 10 years to share what strategies have worked with readmission prevention. Josh also shares about how he became known as a expert in the readmission and care transitions space through his development of the National Readmission Prevention Collaborative, which took off in the early days of the readmission penalties.
info_outlineAngel shares his story of going from "unemployed dad" to becoming an executive leader that oversees the delivery of care in the home for one of Kaiesr Permanente's largest regions. In our episode, Angel reveals how earlier chapters in his life, including time in the military and owning a computer business, helped him become the leader he is today.