State and local public health organizations face a unique challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic in balancing the need to maintain critical services for their patients or clients while maintaining social distancing, all while state budgets are being dramatically reduced. It’s a perfect storm of challenges to meet increased needs with reduced, highly stressed, and often limited staff and resources. With requirements as varied as mental ho...

There’s no question that state and local governments have witnessed massive changes over the last seven months. And, there’s no doubt that many of those changes are here to stay. For its sixth and final Virtual Town Hall in this year’s series, we’ll explore how state and local government workers are fairing across agencies and departments amid the massive changes and innovations that we’ve witnessed throughout 2020.

Having a good health care plan has never been more important and open season provides federal employees with an important opportunity to reevaluate their needs for the coming year. The COVID-19 pandemic makes the 2020 open season especially critical as employees’ needs may have changed. In addition to cost and coverage considerations, telehealth and wellness options and more generous mental health benefits have become priorities for many...

Join Nextgov and Defense One as we take a look at how civilian and military health professionals are leaning into federal and military health system transformations. From modernization to interoperability, how are agencies evolving in order to deliver access to high-quality, patient care through people, processes and technologies? During this webcast, we’ll discuss electronic health records, telehealth, and everything in between.

Public health officials are on the front lines of the coronavirus response: but how are their tools, policies, and practices keeping up? How are state and local leaders innovating to increase public healthcare capacity and care for patients and quarantine workers alike? This Town Hall will explore the people and technology behind the most dextrous response plans, and lessons learned from state and local responses so far. Attendees will leave...

With social distancing guidelines in place during the COVID-19 pandemic, parole, probation, alternatives to incarceration programs and specialty/collaborative Court operations, all essential to the successful reintegration or transitioning populations, have become increasingly complicated in their operational methods. Community implications are far reaching as well, including impacts of recidivism, healthcare costs, homelessness, and substance...

The COVID-19 pandemic has forever altered the corrections ecosystem - adding a complicated new layer to physical safety considerations and service delivery priorities. From healthcare to family visits, education to parole hearings, corrections leaders are rethinking how to most effectively and efficiently serve the inmate population. During this webcast, we’ll explore how justice agencies are leveraging the internet of everything to deli...

Choosing the right health benefits can be a difficult challenge any year, but this year the task is made even harder by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many federal employees are struggling—some with the disease itself or ill family members, others with the challenges of working under greatly changed circumstances. With so much uncertainty around work and family life now, predicting your health care needs for the coming year is more fraught than...

After years of funding pressure on the cost of OPEB benefits, the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic for state and local governments means retiree health care benefits could become a target for deep budget cuts. Reducing benefits for valued retirees is a last resort and painful for all concerned, but there is another option. Laura Rich, executive officer for Nevada Public Employees' Benefits Program (PEBP), will discuss how PEBP used a Me...

State and local health departments are faced with protecting public health, delivering services and providing for the overall welfare of the community. The foundational mission of public state and local health professionals is to protect the public by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability. Given the recent events in public health there is a surge of interest in telemedicine from medical professionals. Health Departments re...