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  • "Behavioral Health: Fixing a System in Crisis"

    posted by Signature Care Management Team on Wednesday, January 31, 2018

    In a recent Modern Healthcare Special Report "Behavioral Health: Fixing a System in Crisis," Signature's Maternity Care Home Model was highlighted as a program successfully addressing behavioral health and improving outcomes.

  • The Dangerous Myth of Patient Responsibility: Part 1

    The Dangerous Myth of Patient Responsibility: Part 1

    posted by Signature Care Management Team on Thursday, May 4, 2017

    At a recent conference, I presented care redesign and care management strategies we implement in our Maternity Care Home Model for Medicaid patients. This model addresses all aspects of women's health, including behavioral health, during the perinatal period, using a patient-centered and strengths-based approach. During the question and answer period, our model was criticized by an audience member for not addressing “patient responsibility.”

  • Our Maternity Care Home Model on Alive and Well STL

    Our Maternity Care Home Model on Alive and Well STL

    posted by Signature Care Management Team on Tuesday, January 17, 2017

    Alive and Well STL is sharing our poster on our Maternity Care Home model on their website along with a list of resources for parents to help alleviate the stress of parenting. Our poster describes our maternity care model that addresses all aspects of women's health including physical, mental, and environmental aspects, within a trauma-informed framework and the success of our model in reducing preterm births, reducing NICU utilization, and cost savings.

  • Maternity Care Program Receives Dr. Corinne Walentik Award

    Maternity Care Program Receives Dr. Corinne Walentik Award

    posted by Signature Care Management Team on Thursday, October 6, 2016

    We are honored for both our maternity care home program, originally called Signature's Strong Start program, and our program director Maribeth Hollinshead, to receive the Dr. Corinne Walentik Provider/Practitioner Award at the Maternal, Child & Family Health Coalition 2016 Standing Up for Mothers and Babies Annual Awards Dinner.

  • Maternity Bundled Payments = Bundles of Savings

    Maternity Bundled Payments = Bundles of Savings

    posted by Signature Care Management Team on Tuesday, September 13, 2016

    In the recent article titled “Bundles of Joy? How new payment models for maternal care could deliver lower costs” in Modern Healthcare, a healthcare executive in the article states that “the devil is in the details” and maternity bundles can be hard to implement because they are “so complex.” Like any new initiative in the US healthcare system, the implementation of an alternative financial model can be challenging. However, one of the first steps before entering into a bundled payment model is