Ohio Department of Health (ODH), in partnership with the Governor’s Office of Health Transformation (OHT), announced that Ohio will invest $1 million to assist primary health-care practices around the state transition to a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model of care and expand the number of PCMH practice sites in Ohio.The PCMH model of care promotes partnerships between patients and their primary health-care providers to improve care coordination and bolster individuals’ health outcomes. Patient care is coordinated using state-of-the-art tools such as registries, information technology, health information exchange and other means to assure that individuals get appropriate care when and where they need it.
“Ohioans spend more per person on health care than residents in all but 13 states, but we rank 42 among states in positive health outcomes,” said Greg Moody, director of the Office of Health Transformation. “The announcement represents a commitment to reversing that trend and acts on Governor Kasich’s instructions to engage private-sector partners to improve overall health-system performance.”
State of Ohio Launches Public Notice Website
Ohio state and local government entities required by the Ohio Revised Code to publish public notices multiple times in a newspaper are able to reduce their costs by using the State Public Notice website, found at PublicNotice.Ohio.gov. The public will be able to search for and browse public notices for free, and there is no charge for state and local governments to post notices to the site.
“The site has the potential to pull together bid notices from more than 3,900 local governments and schools, making searches simpler for businesses pursuing government contracts which should increase the number of bidders for projects, further increasing savings for taxpayers,” said Randy Cole, president of the state’s controlling board, which handles certain adjustments needed to the state budget.
The site was created by the Ohio Department of Administrative Services’ Office of Information Technology as a result of the most recent state budget bill. New Ohio Revised Code section 7.16 allows a state agency or political subdivision, after initially publishing the notice in full in a general circulation newspaper, to subsequently publish an “abbreviated” notice in the newspaper if the notice directs the public to the full notice on the state public notice website.