This week, I spent listening to the members of three statewide behavioral health advisory commissions conduct their regular quarterly meetings at the Embassy Suites in Burlingame, California. Some of the smartest people in the nation, representing every stakeholder group in California’s healthcare system, shared with each other their concerns about the current state of the health of the people of California, and the system intended to improve it.
It would not be an overstatement to say they have serious concerns about recent changes to the system they are charged to oversee, and about their perception of changes they can see coming soon. Though recordings of the meeting will be available in the coming weeks, I will be sharing summaries of both the Commission on Behavioral Health (COB), and the California Association of Local Behavioral Health Boards and Commissions (CALBHB/C) in this space over the weekend.
In the meantime, I’m headed off in the next couple of hours for a PET Scan to determine the extent to which cancer has attacked my body. Later on this afternoon, I’ll resume writing.
While I wait until the scan, I thought it important to post the summary of the Commission on Behavioral Health meeting yesterday:
