New Report: What Can the Health Care Sector Do to Advance Health Equity?

11.20.2019 | Health Leads

Our Chief Clinical Officer Damon Francis contributed to this new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation outlining initiatives to ensure everyone has a fair and just opportunity to live the healthiest life possible - including making health care institutions more equitable and improving social conditions in communities.

Impact of Social Needs Navigation on Utilization Among High Utilizers in a Large Integrated Health System: A Quasi-experimental Study

06.21.2019 | Health Leads

How healthcare can help heal communities and the planet

06.17.2019 | Health Leads

Over the past few decades, the world has made substantial progress on health outcomes, with large improvements in life expectancy and childhood mortality and many breakthroughs in treatments.

Clinician Experiences and Attitudes Regarding Screening for Social Determinants of Health in a Large Integrated Health System

06.01.2019 | Health Leads

Our own Artair Rodgers along with Dr. Adam Schickedanz, Dr. Courtnee Hamity, Adam Sharp, and Dr. Anna Jackson got together to explore clinician attitudes around the social determinants of health.

Addressing Unmet Basic Resource Needs as Part of Chronic Cardiometabolic Disease Management

02.01.2017 | Health Leads

Patients who received help meeting essential socioeconomic needs like food, shelter and medications saw “modest but subsequent” improvements in certain cardiovascular risk factors, including lower blood pressure and cholesterol.