2. AMBCC Health and Human Services
The AMBCC Health and Human Service
Committee is committed to
addressing health disparities and
access to affordable care for
proprietors, their employees and
families. The HAHS Committee will
monitor and make recommendations on
the various issues below. Please
reference the resource below for your
organization and community.
3. AMBCC Health and Human Service Focus…
Business Community Government
4. AMBCC HAH Services Partners
• Behavioral Management Group
• United Health Care
• Kaiser Permanente
• Fulton Department of Health
• DeKalb-Fulton Hospital Authority
• Positive Growth
• Atlanta Job Corp
5. Health Care Reform
The Affordable Care Act, landmark health legislation
passed in 2010, created the National Prevention Council
and called for the development of the National
Prevention Strategy to realize the benefits of prevention
for all Americans’ health.
The National Prevention Strategy is critical to the
prevention focus of the Affordable Care Act and builds
on the law’s efforts to lower health care costs, improve
the quality of care, and provide coverage options for the
uninsured.
6. Economic Impacts
Georgia ranks amongst the top 10 states with the most
hospitals within the US. The importance of hospitals to
their communities extends far beyond health care.
Hospital care is the largest component of the health care
sector. America’s hospitals treated over 123 million
people in their emergency departments, provided care
for over 624 million outpatients, performed over 27
million surgeries, and delivered over 4 million babies.
Every year, hospitals provide these vital health care
services to millions of people in thousands of
communities.
7. Guiding African Americans
African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities
are disproportionately represented among the uninsured
and the underinsured. This historic health reform law will
have far-reaching implications for African Americans
over the next several decades. In an effort to ensure this
population is not left out of the conversation the AMBCC
has hosted stakeholder meetings, community townhalls
and health and human service expos to ensure
information and opportunities are distributed equitably.
8. Stakeholder Roundtables
Our key stakeholder roundtables provide
ongoing collaborations and dialog amongst
small businesses, community-based
organizations, the education and faith-based
sectors, and clinicians. A special emphasis
will be placed on underserved groups.
9. State Health Exchange Basics
The Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act mandates the creation of state-
based health insurance exchanges. The
exchange is simply a clearinghouse,
largely based online, that will provide
information on various plans available in
the state, and its tier levels (measured by
the amount of premium dollars spent on
actual health care).
Luckily, there are a few basic things that
are already known about the exchange.
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners and the National Academy of Social Insurance have developed a list of
guidelines. States are diligently beginning to follow these guidelines, and – beginning in 2011 – each state is working towards
setting up their own exchanges. Though private companies are barred from actually running the exchanges, the states are allowed
to contract out services in setting up the exchanges, according to the legislation.
14. Health and Technology
The Rise of the Digital Doctor- With 90% of physicians riding the social media
wave, there are big, new implications for physician and patient communication.
This infographic gives a peek at how online communities may increase medical
advancements, and how physician/patient communication has changed
throughout history. It even gives a handy break-down of the most influential
doctors on twitter. (Source:NueSoft)
20. Educating the Community
The AMBCC will begin hosting several Neighborhood
Health Expos designed to
• educate the community on health services
• introduce local service providers
• create career and contract opportunities within the
health industry
21. Neighborhood Health Tour Exhibit Plan (20 Vendors)
WebMD
Vendor
Heath Prevention Zone
Digital Health Zone
Health Gamifaction
Vendor
CDC
Vendor
Providers Resource Center
Active wear vendors
23. Health Service Calendar
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Health and Human Health and Human Health and Human
Day Service Roundtable
Health and Human
Service Roundtable Service Roundtable Service Roundtable
/Theme (Jan) (Apr) (Jul) (Oct)
Health Expo Health Expo Health Expo Health Exp
(Feb) (May) (Aug) (Nov)
Minority Health & National Night
Health Disparities America Heart
TBA Monthly Out
Activity Walk
www.omhrc.gov Nationalnightout.org
National Nutrition Women’s Health America on the Mental Illness
Month Week Move Month
Activity Awareness Week
Activity
www.Eatright.org www.4women.gov/owh Americaonthemove.org
Youth Violence Men’s Health Sickle Cell National Diabetes
Week Awareness Month Month
Prevention Week
www.menshealth www.sicklecelldisease.or www.diabetes.org
www.nationalsave.org week.org g
