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Addressing Patients' Social Needs: Opportunities and Tensions in Community-based Organization-Health Care Collaborations
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Opportunities and Tensions in Community-Based Organization/Health Care Collaborations to Address Patients' Social Needs

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This webinar presents findings from research that explores community-based organization (CBO)/health care collaborations to address patients’ social needs, with an emphasis on Medicaid’s focus on social determinants.

Moderator Tricia McGinnis from the Center for Health Care Strategies provides an overview of ways different state Medicaid agencies use policy levers to support new collaborations. Elena Byhoff from Tufts Medical Center reports on her work with Lauren Taylor on research about perspectives of CBOs in Massachusetts, and Hugh Alderwick from the Health Foundation reviews research from California and Oregon on how those states are using Medicaid 1115 waivers to overcome obstacles to developing partnerships.

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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.