02.27.2023 | Health Leads
Dominique Morgan joins Health Leads as Chief Operating Officer, and Susan Furtney as Chief Strategy and Learning Officer to support national and local growth in racial health equity innovation, advocacy and partnerships.
Learn more about our new study–conducted in collaboration with Harvard Medical School investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital–which found that enrollment in a resource needs intervention helped patients improve blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
“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.
