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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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ReThink Health

Publication Date

06.14.2017

Topic Area

Alignment 101
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Intermediary Organizations Are Urgently Needed to Assist in Modernizing Public Health and Addressing the Drivers of Health in the United States

This issue brief describes the different roles intermediaries can play; provides examples of where they have been used in practice; and identifies the risks, benefits, and possible innovations of intermediaries as well as policy approaches that might facilitate their appropriate use.

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“More Than Just Giving Them a Piece of Paper”: Interviews with Primary Care on Social Needs Referrals to Community-Based Organizations

This publication characterizes referrals to community-based organizations by primary care practices, which are increasingly being used by healthcare organizations to invest in social care.

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Revising the Foundational Public Health Services in 2022

This publication provides a framework outlining the unique responsibilities of governmental public health and can be used to explain the vital role of governmental public health in a thriving community; identify capacity and resource gaps; determine the cost for assuring foundational activities; and justify funding needs

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