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Creating a behavioral health system in South Carolina that fully meets the needs of residents and the behavioral health workforce is critical to improving the state\u2019s overall health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The South Carolina Institute of Medicine and Public Health (IMPH) is a nonpartisan convener with the mission to collectively inform policy to improve health and health care. The Workforce for Health Taskforce was launched in April 2018 to determine South Carolina-specific policy changes and health care workforce solutions needed to create sustainable, person-centered systems of health care that promote population health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Taskforce represented more than 60 of the state\u2019s leading experts from health care systems, state agencies, consumer groups, academia, community-based organizations, nonprofits and philanthropic organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the report The Evolving Workforce: Redefining Health Care Delivery in South Carolina, state specific, evidence-based practice and policy solutions are outlined in four key areas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n