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Tangible recommendations for health care organizations and policymakers can support more effective community engagement initiatives.
Brief/Report
NYC’s Overdose Prevention Centers: Data from the First Year of Supervised Consumption Services
Overdose prevention centers in New York City are shown to avert overdose-related injury and death, reduce public drug use, and connect individuals to wraparound services.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Adopting Trauma-Informed Care in Rural Areas: Lessons from a Community Behavioral Health Partnership in Pennsylvania
This webinar featured a rural Pennsylvania partnership and its experience implementing trauma-informed care across a network of providers.
Webinar
Medicare-Medicaid Integrated Care Programs
Curates evidence behind three fully integrated care program models for people who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, as well as practical strategies that support effective implementation of these programs.
Collection
December 2023
Improving Nursing Home Care Quality
Curates evidence on improving nursing home care quality and explores practical tools that support effective implementation of care and services that are more person-centered and improve outcomes for nursing home residents.
Collection
November 2023
Community Member Engagement Resource Center
This resource center offers guidance to help Medicaid stakeholders engage community members in policy and program design development, especially as a means of increasing health equity.
Website/Resource Center
Community-Based Organization Services Evidence Bank
Curated collection of research studies highlights the efficacy of services provided by community-based organizations, with a focus on outcomes relevant to health care partners.
Website/Resource Center
Addressing Healthcare Utilization and Costs for Older Adults with Limited Mobility Through a Multidisciplinary Home-Based Primary Care Program
An interdisciplinary home-based primary care program for older adults with limited mobility leads to reductions in health care utilization and costs.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Building an LGBTQ+ Inclusive PACE Program: Key Learnings on How the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) Model Addresses the Needs of LGBTQ+ Older Adults
Lessons for developing LGBTQ+ inclusive Program of All-Inclusive Care (PACE) programs for older adults.
Brief/Report
Assessment of the Massachusetts Flexible Services Program to Address Food and Housing Insecurity in a Medicaid Accountable Care Organization
A program to connect Medicaid ACO enrollees with nutrition and housing-related services demonstrated early indications of effectiveness.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Addressing the Complex Needs of Older Adults through Strong Community-Based Organization and Health Plan Partnerships
This webinar highlighted one successful CBO-health plan partnership model to explore why they entered into a partnership, how they put their contract into practice, and outcomes of the partnership so far.
Webinar
Three Decades of Research in Substance Use Disorder Treatment for Syringe Services Program Participants: A Scoping Review of the Literature
Syringe Services Programs can function as entry points to substance use disorder treatment and provide onsite medications for opioid use disorder.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Cocreating Evidence-Informed Health Equity Policy with Community
A county health department, in collaboration with community-based organizations, conducts community listening sessions to identify priorities for health equity policies.
Case Example
Building Trust: Leadership Reflections on Community Empowerment and Engagement in a Large Urban Initiative
Leaders of community-based partnerships that offer trauma-informed programming highlight strategies for building trust with communities.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Integration on the Frontlines of Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations and Associations with Perceived Care Quality, Health Equity, and Satisfaction
Integrated care in MassHealth ACOs varies greatly across primary care practice type and is associated with greater ability to improve care quality and advance health equity.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Crisis Response Model Preferences of Mental Health Care Clients With Prior Misdemeanor Arrests and of Their Family and Friends
A nonpolice response model was the first choice for mental health crisis response among people with serious mental illness and their family members.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Community Health Worker Programs
Curates recent evidence behind community health worker programs that support people with complex health and social needs, as well as practical strategies to support effective implementation of these programs.
Collection
April 2023
Community Health Worker Integration with and Effectiveness in Health Care and Public Health in the United States
Community health worker interventions are effective for improving health behaviors and outcomes and reducing health care costs for people with chronic disease.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Dementia Care Navigation: Building Toward a Common Definition, Key Principles, and Outcomes
An expert panel proposed key principles for designing care navigation programs for persons living with dementia and their caregivers.
Peer-Reviewed Article