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The Health Care Anchor Model
Webinar

The Health Care Anchor Model

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This podcast explores the pillars of Rush University’s healthcare anchor institution model, partnering with community-based organizations to advance its health equity work. Speakers include Wylie Liu, MPH, MPA, Executive Director of the Center for Community Engagement at the University of California, San Francisco, and Darlene Oliver Hightower, JD, Vice President, Community Health Equity at Rush University Medical Center.

This is the second in a series of six Coffee & Science events on topics related to Alignment and Advocacy, which are the last two “A”s of the National Academy of Medicine’s framework that SIREN’s used to organize Coffee & Science. Alignment and Advocacy are both about what health care can do at the community level to address social conditions.

Webinar

Welcome to the TEAM: A Toolkit for Everyone Aligning and Measuring

This webinar presents the Toolkit for Everyone Aligning and Measuring (TEAM), a tool designed to help people think about measurement and strategy in their cross-sector health collaboratives.

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.