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Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT) becomes new home for Michigan Community Health Worker Alliance

The Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation (CHRT), an independent nonprofit impact organization housed at the University of Michigan, is the new host organization for the Michigan Community Health Worker Alliance (MiCHWA), an organization that works to advance and train community health workers across the state and achieve policies that lead to sustainable financing of CHW programs. As part of …

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CHRT to develop tool assessing capacity of statewide Choosing Wisely® efforts

The Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation (CHRT), in collaboration with the University of Michigan’s Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation (IHPI),  received a $55,380 grant from the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation to develop a tool to help assess a state’s capacity to launch a statewide Choosing Wisely® campaign. An initiative of the ABIM Foundation in partnership …

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Detroit Free Press: Why health care bills leave poor, sick behind

CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips explains why neither the U.S. House of Representatives’ American Health Care Act nor the Senate’s Better Care Reconciliation Act is a repeal and replacement of the ACA.

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WDET-FM: What Would Obamacare repeal mean for Michigan?

Republicans in Congress say their first priority in the new year is to repeal the federal health care law. They voted many times to repeal Obamacare over the past several years, only to see those efforts vetoed by President Obama. But soon they’ll have a Republican in the White House, one who campaigned aggressively on repealing the health care law…

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Detroit Free Press: Beyond Obamacare: What the ACA has meant for Michigan

Michigan has always done better by its citizens than most other states when it comes to health care and health insurance. Even before the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Michigan had more people insured than most states and lower average health care spending…

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