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Community Care Earns Full Accreditation from National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)

PITTSBURGH (July 30, 2007) – Community Care has been awarded three-year Full Accreditation – the highest possible level – from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). (read entire release)

Community Care to Hold Its 8th Annual Behavioral Health Recovery Conference

PITTSBURGH (April 18, 2007) – As a part of its ongoing commitment to support the creation of a recovery-oriented behavioral health delivery system, Community Care, a non-profit behavioral health managed care company, will be holding its 8th Annual Recovery Conference on May 1, 2007 at the Omni William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh. The theme of this year’s conference is “RECOVERY imagine the possibilities…”. The conference presentations and workshops will share tools that people need to recover from mental health and addiction disorders, as well as ways that organizations providing treatment may support recovery efforts. The conference is free of charge to users of behavioral health services and their family members. The conference is also open to behavioral health professionals. (read entire release)

Community Care Behavioral Health Organization Opens DuBois Office to Support the North Central HealthChoices Program

PITTSBURGH (April 10, 2007) — Community Care Behavioral Health Organization, a nonprofit behavioral health managed care company, opened a DuBois office at 480 Jeffers Street on Monday, April 2, 2007. The 7,200 square foot office, which will house more than 25 staff, was established as a result of Community Care’s selection by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (DPW) to manage behavioral health services (mental health and substance abuse) for Medicaid members in 23 counties of North Central Pennsylvania. (read entire release)

Community Care Behavioral Health Organization Recruits Regional Director for the North Central HealthChoices Program

PITTSBURGH (February 22, 2007) —Felicia Stehley, RN, has been named Regional Director for the HealthChoices North Central Program by Community Care Behavioral Health, a nonprofit behavioral health managed care company based in Pittsburgh. In this role, Ms. Stehley will provide leadership, direction and management for the new program and work closely with stakeholders in the 23-county region. Her office will be in State College, PA. (read entire release)

Community Care Behavioral Health Organization Recruits Senior Medical Director to Support Innovative Pharmacy Management Program

PITTSBURGH (February 14, 2007) - Community Care, a non-profit behavioral health managed care company, announced today that Dr. Judith W. Dogin has joined the organization as the Senior Medical Director in support of its HealthChoices and Behavioral Health Pharmacy Management Programs. (read entire release)

Community Care Behavioral Health Organization Project Assists Recovery-Oriented Peer Support Programs

PITTSBURGH (January 22, 2007) -Community Care, a non-profit behavioral health managed care company with headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, believes in recovery. In addition to funding non-traditional services and hosting multiple recovery conferences, the managed care company recently completed a three-year initiative to encourage the effective use of peers in community-based agencies that assist individuals dealing with substance use disorders. (read entire release)

Community Care Senior Director Recipient of the AACAP Norbert and Charlotte Rieger Service Program Award for Excellence

PITTSBURGH (January 4, 2007) -- Bradley Stein, the Senior Director for Research, Evaluation and Outcomes at Community Care Behavioral Health Organization, is the 2006 recipient of the Norbert and Charlotte Rieger Service Program Award for Excellence from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Stein accepted the award in recognition of his outstanding work with the Cognitive- Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) Program. (read entire release)

Community Care Behavioral Health Organization Awarded $170 million Managed Care Contract

Expansion to make Community Care the largest not-for-profit behavioral health managed care organization in the country.

PITTSBURGH (September 29, 2006) — Community Care Behavioral Health Organization, a company of the Insurance Division of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), has been selected by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare to manage behavioral health services for Medicaid members in 23 counties of North Central Pennsylvania. (read entire release)