Care management services are commonly used for people with complex care needs. Growing evidence suggests that care management interventions that integrate community health workers (CHW) who share similar health and life experiences with the people they serve can improve health outcomes. However, many community-based organizations (CBOs) that employ CHWs may not have the necessary infrastructure to facilitate contracting with health care entities. Community care hubs can support partnerships between CBOs and health care entities by coordinating administration and infrastructure for a network of

Sharon Bean and Ernest Egu, MD, discuss their corrections-health partnership that has reduced the risk of overdose among people leaving jail by offering medication for addiction treatment.

Colleen McGregor and Kurt Sheppard from Banner University Health Plan discuss how the plan has promoted and sustained member and community engagement through their member advisory councils and committees.

Breaks down CMS’ new payment model for comprehensive dementia care, explores the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) model, and highlights resources available to help GUIDE providers succeed.

Kathryn Jantz from HealthBegins, discusses how health care organizations and community-based organizations can use an return on investment calculator to support partnerships that address patients’ health-related social needs.

Profiles the Serious Illness Care Program, a model that supports providers in having proactive, emotionally safe conversations with seriously ill patients about their values and goals, to better guide end-of-life care.

Understand emerging evidence around the reimbursement of caregiver training services and explore resources for building successful caregiver training programs.

Highlights the CCBHC model, it’s unique financing approach, and two CCBHC programs in New York City and Oklahoma.

Profiles the Program to Encourage Active, Rewarding Lives (PEARLS), an evidence-based treatment program for older adults experiencing late-life depression, and how the program is decreasing access barriers to behavioral health services for older adults.

Laura Gottlieb, founding co-director of the Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network, discusses emerging evidence on social care interventions and identifies pathways through which social care programs likely impact health.

Connecticut Community of Addiction Recovery helps people with substance use disorder achieve and sustain recovery through community-based non-clinical social support programs, volunteer opportunities, and referrals to detox, treatment, housing, employment, among other resources.

Explores how the Fountain House implemented the clubhouse model, a unique approach that empowers people with serious mental illness to form meaningful relationships, build resilience, improve self-management of their mental health, and pursue employment, education, and housing.

Explores how community paramedicine programs have been implemented across the country, what evidence supports the effectiveness of these models, and how state and federal policies are helping to support the sustainability of these services.

Michael Askew, Deputy Director of the Office of Recovery at the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration, discusses the role of recovery community centers in the lives of people with substance use disorder and across the continuum of other addiction care services.

This essay from Lawrence Lincoln, a former unhoused person in California, documents his journey of recovery and subsequent work with a care community.

States and health plans focused on engaging and sustaining the community health worker (CHW) workforce can use this blog post to understand emerging evidence around CHW programs for older adults.

Features a conversation with José Figueroa, MD, MPH, that explores emerging evidence behind integrated care programs and what is known about the impact of these programs on the populations they serve.

Profiles the Household Model, which creates home-like environments for nursing home residents to offer greater dignity, autonomy, and infection control, as well as establishes closer, more family-type relationships between residents and staff.

Features a conversation with two Southcentral Foundation leaders to learn how their approach to patient engagement has evolved over the years and the role it plays in improving care and advancing equity across their system.

Describes a new federal rule released in November 2023 to increase transparency in nursing home operations.