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advisory committees & volunteer activities - 2007

Advisory Committees

Adults with General Mental Health/Substance Abuse Advisory Committee

This committee is responsible for evaluating Quality Improvement issues and the way the system is working to meet the needs of people receiving General Mental Health/Substance Abuse services giving advice to the Quality Improvement Committee on ways to improve services, making sure new ways to improve General Mental Health/Substance Abuse services are used, and helping with community education.

Date	Location/Meeting Summary
November 2, 2007	Meeting Summary  (6 KB PDF)
December 7, 2007	Meeting Summary  (6 KB PDF)

Adults with SMI Advisory Committee

This committee is responsible for evaluating Quality Improvement issues and the way the system is working to meet the needs of adults with serious mental illnesses, giving advice to the Quality Improvement Committee on ways to improve services, making sure new ways to improve services for adults with serious mental illnesses are used, and helping with community education

Date	Location/Meeting Summary
November 8, 2007	Meeting Summary  (7 KB PDF)
December 6, 2007	Meeting Summary  (6 KB PDF)

Child/Adolescent Advisory Committee

This committee is responsible for evaluating Quality Improvement issues and the way the system is working to meet the needs of children and adolescents, giving advice to the Quality Improvement Committee on ways to improve services, making sure new ways to improve services for children and adolescents are used, and helping with community education

Date	Location/Meeting Summary
November 26, 2007	Meeting Summary  (7 KB PDF)
December 17, 2007	Meeting Summary  (7 KB PDF)

Community Training Committee

This committee is responsible for making decisions regarding the new training programs for the Regional Behavioral Health Authority, and helping Magellan improve the training that it provides to staff and to the community.

Date	Location/Meeting Summary
October 5, 2007
December 7, 2007

Cultural Competency Committee

This committee is responsible for making sure that all Magellan services and programs deliver high quality care that respects the race, ethnicity, culture, and language preference of every person that receives services

Date	Location/Meeting Summary
October 15, 2007	Meeting Summary  (6 KB PDF)

Customer Service Committee

This committee is responsible for improving customer service throughout Magellan, the Provider Network Organizations (PNO's) and the providers. This includes everything from telephone calls, people being able to get services, compliments and complaints, appeals, confidentiality issues, and customer satisfaction surveys. and, working closely with other committees to resolve customer service issues

Date	Location/Meeting Summary
November 30, 2007	Meeting Summary  (7 KB PDF)
December 14, 2007	Meeting Summary  (7 KB PDF)

Evidence-Based Best Practices Committee

This committee is responsible for identifying ways to provide services that have been proven to work well making sure that these proven ways are put in place and can be reviewed to make sure that they are working. Once a year, this committee will pick at least one proven way to start using in each part of the system (like Serious Mental Illness, Child and Adolescence, and General Mental Health and Substance Abuse programs), and will promote the use of this proven way across the entire system.

Date	Location/Meeting Summary

Inter-agency Committee

This committee is responsible for coordinating communication and activities between the Magellan Service Center and the community-based social service agencies acts as a connection between the Quality Improvement Committee and these agencies to make sure that information and improvement ideas are shared and used during the Quality Improvement process

Date	Location/Meeting Summary

Network Strategy Committee

This committee reviews and approves network development and network expansion related functions, responds to provider terminations and availability and accessibility issues, plans for short and long-term needs from the larger provider community and within the PNOs and CRN.

Date	Location/Meeting Summary
October 24, 2007

Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee

This committee is responsible for promoting and monitoring safe and effective prescription practice.

Date	Location/Meeting Summary

Meeting summaries for the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee will not be posted online due to the sensitive and confidential nature of the information discussed by the committee. If you have any questions or concerns about this committee, please contact us at MagellanCommittees@MagellanHealth.com.

Prevention Advisory Committee

This committee is responsible for evaluating Quality Improvement issues and the way the system is working to meet the needs of people receiving prevention services, giving advice to the Quality Improvement Committee on ways to improve services, making sure new ways to improve prevention services are used, and helping with community education

Date	Location/Meeting Summary
November 5, 2007	Meeting Summary  (6 KB PDF)
December 3, 2007	Meeting Summary  (6 KB PDF)

Professional Provider Review Committee

This committee is responsible for improving the quality and availability of providers and services of the provider network including the Provider Network Organizations (PNO's) and Crisis Response Network (CRN), Managing the credentialing, recredentialing, and privileging of all providers, professional staff and clinical liaisons, helping with the development of and carrying out of monitoring tools, schedules, and reports, and advising Magellan on ways to improve the way providers are monitored

Date	Location/Meeting Summary
November 12, 2007
December 10, 2007 10:30 a.m.

Quality Improvement Committee

This committee is responsible for looking after and helping with quality improvement (QI) in the service delivery system, and evaluating Magellan's performance and improvement to give advice to make positive changes. This committee reports to the Governance Board and also to the Magellan National Quality Committee (NQC.)

Date	Location/Meeting Summary
September 18, 2007	Meeting Summary  (6 KB PDF)
October 16, 2007	Meeting Summary  (6 KB PDF)
November 27, 2007	Meeting Summary  (6 KB PDF)
December 18, 2007 2:00 p.m.	Palo Verde Conference Room

Quality of Care Committee

This committee is responsible for addressing quality of care concerns brought by the Chief Medical Officer and reports what it finds to the Professional Provider Review Committee, recommending ways to improve clinical performance to the Quality Improvement Committee, helping to carry out new ways to improve, and helping with community education

Date	Location/Meeting Summary
November 16, 2007	Meeting Summary  (6 KB PDF)
December 13, 2007	Meeting Summary  (6 KB PDF)

Utilization Management Committee

This committee is responsible for evaluating clinical programs, looking at the resources available through Magellan, the Provider Network Organizations (PNO's) and the providers to make sure that the resources are used in a way that allows the most people to receive quality services, and creating rules and procedures to improve the use of services

Date	Location/Meeting Summary
November 9, 2007	Meeting Summary  (6 KB PDF)
December 14, 2007	Meeting Summary  (6 KB PDF)

Volunteer Activities

Human Rights Committees

Human Rights Committees are made up of people who understand the needs of those with mental illness. Committee members are dedicated to promoting and protecting the rights of individuals who receive publicly funded behavioral health services. If you have questions or are interested in participating on the Human Rights Committee, please click here for more information: www.azdhs.gov/bhs/bcr

 

MY LIFE (Magellan Youth Leaders Inspiring Future Empowerment)

Please see the new Youth Involvement page for more information about MY LIFE.

 

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