The Atrómitos Way
Welcome to The Atrómitos Way Podcast, where we candidly discuss the everyday challenges facing safety net health and human service providers, government agencies, philanthropies, and advocates. Our podcast will offer practical, easy-to-implement solutions to long-standing and emerging problems and highlight innovative ideas from fearless thought leaders nationwide.
The Atrómitos Way
Latest Episodes
#058: The Missing Layer: Why We Keep Rebuilding Social Care and Never Finish It
We’ve seen it before, and we will probably see it again: using state and federal dollars, we fund a social care program for five years, it works, and despite robust results, one budget cycle takes it out. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Wha...
#057: When the Safety Net Frays: What HR1 Means for Behavioral Health Access in Washington
Signed on July 4, 2025, H.R.1 cut roughly $1 trillion in federal Medicaid spending over ten years, in the largest restructuring of Medicaid financing in a generation. Because Medicaid funds about a quarter of all U.S. mental health and substanc...
#056: Understanding Stressors and the Nervous System [Rebroadcast]
In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month, we’re rebroadcasting one of the most popular episodes of The Atrómitos Way Podcast. Back in May of 2024, we sat down with Sharon Stultz, a dedicated educator and mental health p...
#055: Rural Health Transformation in Washington State and Beyond
The Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) is the largest federal investment in rural health in a generation: $50 billion over five years, distrib...
#054: Innovations on the Ground: Building a Social Care Network
Healthcare often focuses on clinical symptoms and medical treatments, while many patients lack essential support for non-medical factors which greatly affect health outcomes. Social care networks aim to connect healthcare providers with communi...
