Program Implementation

Altarum seeks to be a disruptor—fostering population health innovation nationwide. Our success starts with our employees' drive and their deep domain expertise in public health and health care delivery. Let us help you deliver more efficient and impactful programs.

Services

Planning • Execution • Evaluation

How are we improving health of vulnerable populations? By helping state WIC programs transition to participant-centered services. By leading coalitions of community organizations to reduce opioid misuse and abuse. By establishing an innovative care delivery system to prevent childhood dental disease. And that's just the beginning. 

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SmileConnect®

Our integrated oral health care model is used by states and counties to ensure more children are getting preventive dental care. 

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WIC in Minnesota

Helping the Minnesota Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program transition to a participant-centered approach.

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Michigan Center for Effective IT Adoption

Altarum helps providers comply with Meaningful Use and improve the quality, efficiency, and security of their operations.

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Detroit Opioid Prevention Collaborative

We're facilitating a community partnership that provides responsible opioid prescribing training and education for clinicians in Michigan.

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Peer Recovery Training and Support 

We're advising organizations across the US, from local jurisdictions to state agencies, on how to implement peer recovery programs.

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Helping Small Practices Comply with the CMS Quality Payment Program  

Through funding from CMS, Altarum provides free, customized technical assistance to small practices on complying with the Quality Payment Program.

Program Implementation Contact

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Emily Ehrlich

Emily Ehrlich - MPH, PMP

Deputy Director, Behavioral Health

Areas of Expertise
  • Practice Transformation
  • Substance Use Disorder Prevention
  • Quality Improvement & Clinical Decision Support
Emily has more than 20 years of experience in health care policy and research, including directing a program funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to educate and train 4,000 primary care and behavioral health providers in depression screening and responsible opioid prescribing. Emily has a master’s degree in health behavior and health education, a bachelor’s degree in psychology, and is a certified Project Management Professional.
Linnea Sallack

Linnea Sallack - MPH, RD

Director, Healthy Women and Children

Areas of Expertise
  • Food and Nutrition Programs
  • Program Implementation
  • Nutrition Behaviors

Linnea is a former WIC program director of California, and has since dedicated her career to helping federal, state, and local nutrition and food assistance agencies develop and implement strategies that strengthen their programs. She is a registered dietitian and holds a master’s degree in public health from the University of California at Berkeley.