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Workforce & Authentic Relationships

The Health Leads Network offers the kind of tangible resources, learning and community that healthcare practitioners need to turn community health goals into action. Our efforts tackle several of the key barriers front-line practitioners and caregivers face in pursuing health equity — including Workforce & Authentic Relationships.

Below is a selection of resources to help healthcare organizations foster policies, processes and support to sustain a workforce that develops authentic relationships and meets patients where they are. Check back regularly, as our broader Resource Library grows each week!

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Opportunities to Inform a Business Case for Upstream, Equitable and Community-Centered Prevention

Health Leads | October 27, 2020 | Data & Evaluation, Leadership & Change Management

Drawing on key learnings from our collaborative and community information exchange projects, this white paper provides a starting point for healthcare institutions to address power imbalances in healthcare payment structures, build a more equitable, community-centered reimbursement, funding and incentive systems, and shift resources to include upstream, preventive interventions.

The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Worksheet

Adrianna Saada | November 25, 2019 | Data & Evaluation, Leadership & Change Management,

The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle is a framework for testing and implementing changes on a small scale - and is highly applicable and relevant to social health integration.

How States Can Use Medicaid Managed Care Contracts to Support Community Health Workers

Families USA | September 27, 2019 |

This issues brief from FamiliesUSA details several ways organizations can use Medicaid managed care dollars to support community health workers and similar roles. Understanding the funding streams that are applicable to your program — and how to access them — is critical to sustaining programs that tackle disparities and improve community health.

Business Case Brief: Beyond Screening & Referral Pilots

Health Leads | May 17, 2019 | Leadership & Change Management

Making a strong business case among key stakeholders is critical to turning challenges into opportunities—and acquire the sustainable funding needed to spread essential resource efforts beyond isolated screening and referral pilots. Here we share six interdependent elements of successful business case strategies.

Funding Whole-Person Health: Opportunities to Make Essential Needs Initiatives More Sustainable

Health Leads | May 16, 2019 | Leadership & Change Management

Our Funding Whole-Person Health Guide and supporting Essential Needs Funding Table are intended to help healthcare practices identify the range of potential funding opportunities available — and understand how these initiatives may or may not align with their desired care delivery model. We offer a high-level summary of primary care payment reform efforts and funding opportunities that can support providers in developing value-based, community-centered care models.

Innovative Funding as a Lever Of Change

National Center for Complex Health & Social Needs | September 10, 2018 | Leadership & Change Management

This Putting Care at the Center panel discussion explores how existing funding streams could better support new, innovative care models -- and how these investments can facilitate change in complex care delivery.

Measuring Social Determinants of Health Among Low Income Populations: Early Insights from State Initiatives

Center for Health Care Strategies | September 10, 2018 | Data & Evaluation

This CHCS webinar explores emerging state-level approaches to measuring social needs interventions among beneficiaries of publicly financed care.

Webinar Series: Part 1: Equity’s Role in SDOH Interventions – Implementation

In part one of this three-part webinar series, health equity champions from across the country share their experiences integrating equity into SDOH interventions — highlighting best practices, tools and frameworks that participants can apply to their own work.

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