11.11.2022 | Health Leads
In partnership with the NYC Department of Health’s Maternal Health Quality Improvement Network (MHQIN), Healthy Start Brooklyn, and the New York Coalition for Doula Access (NYCDA), we’re increasing access to doula care for Black and low-income patients and ensuring doulas ...
“It can be daunting for a health system to feel all of a sudden responsible for poverty,” but there’s also a “huge appetite” for this kind of work, says Rebecca Onie, Health Leads founder.
Patients who were screened for social needs and then helped getting food, medication and other necessities saw subsequent improvements in blood pressure and cholesterol levels, shows a new study by Mass General Hospital and Health Leads.
Changes in health care financing are pushing some health systems to address social factors that directly impact patients’ health. A handful of pioneering organizations have begun to adopt this “community cure” for health and move beyond pills and procedures.
“There are parts of these patients’ lives that are affecting their health much more than anything that happens in the clinic,” says Dr. Meghan Tschudy, a clinician at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, a Health Leads partner.
