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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.

Brief

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.

Publication

“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