A Brave New World for Community Resource Navigation

What happens when essential needs technologies combine forces on data instead of competing for market share? A new pilot offers four promising lessons.

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Business Case Brief: Beyond Screening & Referral Pilots

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

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

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

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

MassHealth Accountable Care Organization Primer

The Massachusetts Accountable Care Organization opportunity rewards integration of health-related social needs into clinical care. Health Leads' free ACO Primer is designed to help providers design high-impact solutions and make the most of state DSRIP funding.