
Expanding Research on Care Coordination for Older Adults: A Discussion of Programs, Methods, and Outcomes
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Understanding the complexities of health care is just one of the many challenges facing health care professionals, policy makers, and the general public who often struggle to keep pace with the rise in their health care costs. For high-needs, high-cost patients, the challenge is even more daunting.
The mandatory-sentencing craze that drove up the prison population tenfold, pushing state corrections costs to bankrupting levels, was rooted in New York’s infamous Rockefeller drug laws. These laws, which mandated lengthy sentences for nonviolent, first-time offenders, were approved 40 years ago next month. They did little to curtail drug use in New York or in other states that mimicked them, while they filled prisons to bursting with nonviolent addicts who would have been more effectively and more cheaply dealt with through treatment programs.
Blueprint Report Addresses NY Drug Policy
WAMC Radio
A news segment on the release of Blueprint for a Public Health and Safety Approach to Drug Policy, coauthored by NYAM and the Drug Policy Alliance, aired on WAMC, New York State’s flagship public radio station.
Why We Need Age-Friendly Communities
Huffington Post
Welcome to the age-friendly movement--a fast-growing, interdisciplinary approach to community development that strives to promote aging in place and make communities great places to grow up and grow old.
The New York State Department of Health developed the Prevention Agenda toward the Healthiest State, the Department's state health improvement plan for 2008-2012, as a call to action to local health departments, health care providers, health plans, schools, employers, and businesses to collaborate at the community level to improve the health status of New Yorkers through increased emphasis on prevention.

On February 28, 2013, NYAM welcomed featured speaker Donna Frescatore, Executive Director of New York’s Health Benefit Exchange, and other health care policy and planning experts discuss the progress and implications of the New York State Health Exchange. More than 200 health care professionals attended the event.