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A Playbook for Fostering Hospital-Community Partnerships to Build a Culture of Health
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A Playbook for Fostering Hospital-Community Partnerships to Build a Culture of Health

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This playbook provides a framework for cultivating effective partnerships between hospitals and community organizations, with valuable and practical tools, easily accessible worksheets and actionable strategies to build consensus and accountability within the partnership.

The playbook outlines strategies for sustaining partnerships through transparent communication, long-term funding and leadership support—all of which will help hospitals and health systems foster effective partnerships and build a Culture of Health.

Hospitals and health systems interested in partnering with community organizations can navigate through the playbook and learn how to identify organizations and resources within the community to potentially partner with, host kickoff meetings, and conduct visioning exercises with partners to identify a shared mission.

New and existing partnerships can use innovative strategies, tools and worksheets in this playbook to:

  • Identify partners and their assets
  • Host community collaborative meetings
  • Define roles and responsibilities in a collaborative
  • Address common goals in a collaborative
  • Create an action plan
  • Measure partnership effectiveness
  • Overcome obstacles
  • Celebrate progress

Publication

Community Voice In Cross-Sector Alignment: Concepts and Strategies from a Scoping Review of the Health Collaboration Literature

This article addresses a gap in the literature with a systematic scoping review of research on health-oriented cross-sector collaboration and community voice.

Publication

COVID Relief Money: States Need Public-Private Partnerships

This op-ed authored by Jeffrey Levi and published in The Hill highlights the need for states and localities to align varied federal funding streams to maximize effectiveness and sustainability.

Brief

Making Aligning Work: Reflections on 18 Months of Aligning Across Sectors

This brief–part of the Aligning Systems for Health’s Making Aligning Work series–captures reflections on the progress made in the field around aligning sectors, the implications of the triple crisis for aligning efforts, and considerations for the future of aligning across sectors.