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Developing Mature Partnerships to Meet the Challenges of Our Time
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Developing Mature Partnerships to Meet the Challenges of Our Time

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This blog provides insight and commentary on how multi-sector partnerships advance through developmental phases, from formation through maturity, and particular competencies that drive momentum and the pitfalls that stall progress tend to change.

Authored by Bobby Milstein of ReThink Health, the blog discusses that more and more regions now rely on having capable, mature partnerships to fulfill vital roles as stewards of a fragile health system—a trend that will likely grow stronger as the nation faces such troubling trends as skyrocketing health care costs, entrenched inequities, eroding well-being, and lost productivity.

Moreover, the variety across our large, diverse country means these groups cannot follow a single blueprint. Instead, the champions of health system change need a flexible developmental framework to anticipate and adjust to changes over time.

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Networks of Support Help Patients Navigate Complex Systems

This publication examines how a health system in Minnesota empowers patients by giving them resources to address their health-related social needs.

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Closing Gaps in Health and Social Services for Low-Income Pregnant Women

This webinar explores the effectiveness of the Los Angeles Maternity Assessment Management Access and Service initiative.

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Development and Validation of a Measure to Assess Readiness to Advance Health and Equity: The Assessment for Advancing Community Transformation

This publication reports on the development and validation of the Assessment for Advancing Community Transformation - a tool that allows groups to directly collect and use data about their multi-sector collaborative by creating a shared point of reference for where partners are at in their stage of development across multiple factors.