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Case Study

Aligning in Action: Rocky Mountain Health Plans

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This case study highlights Rocky Mountain Health Plans (RMHP), a unique example where a payer is facilitating regional efforts to address social determinants of health. RMHP serves as a bridge organization within the Accountable Health Communities Model (AHCM), coordinating efforts in a largely rural area.

RMHP is one of seven regional accountable entities (RAE) for the Health First Colorado Accountable Care Collaborative (Colorado’s Medicaid program). RMHP connects Health First Colorado members with both primary care and behavioral health services.Expectations of the AHCM grant include partnerships with food, housing, and transportation sectors, as well as other community-based organizations, to engage nonmedical partners.

Aligning Systems for Health: Health Care + Public Health + Social Services, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and managed by the Georgia Health Policy Center, is focused on learning from stakeholders across the nation about effective ways to align these three sectors to better meet people’s goals and needs.

Publication

Using Measurement to Inform an Equitable, Aligned COVID-19 Recovery

This article discusses how policymakers and leaders can use measurement to help systems work towards more equitable health outcomes by disaggregating data to identify inequities; partnering with communities to identify actionable metrics; and balancing decision-making among stakeholders.

Case Study

Aligning in Action: Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation

This case study examines how the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation's history of building one of the first Connected Communities of Care in the nation, rooted in its proprietary information exchange platform, gave it — as an intermediary or backbone organization — the necessary experience of aligning diverse stakeholders to then serve as a bridge organization for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Accountable Health Communities Model in Dallas.

Brief

Finding Innovation and Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-Sector Alignment and the Response to COVID-19

This brief highlights how successfully addressing the complex challenges that affect community health — such as COVID-19 and its economic impacts — requires health care, public health, and social services to work together in new ways.