Features a conversation with Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School, that explores opportunities to use value-based payment strategies to support telehealth for people with complex needs.
Features the viewpoints of complex care leaders on how the pandemic and efforts to improve health equity have impacted their complex care business models.
Interdisciplinary primary care models can help reduce acute care use for individuals with histories of high emergency department use, homelessness, or substance use disorder.
Care management interventions demonstrated improvements in mental health, quality of life, and patient satisfaction as well as reduced psychiatric inpatient days for people with serious mental illness.
A hospital-based program showed that peer recovery coaching can be seamlessly integrated into the workflow of busy emergency departments to address the longer-term needs of people with substance use disorders.
Shares key themes from a panel discussion that explored how to translate research findings into decision making for complex care program design and improvements.
Profiles the Care Ecosystem program, developed at the University of California, San Francisco, that is using care team navigators to support older adults with dementia who are living at home and their caregivers.
Profiles the Rush Caregiver Intervention at Rush University Medical Center, that is working to transform how the health care system interacts with family caregivers, while providing programs and services that support caregivers and their family members.
Patients and community health workers (CHWs) share perspectives on the impact of CHW services provided within a primary care setting to address barriers to equitable care.
A participatory design approach created a nurse-driven screening process to better identify and treat people with opioid use disorder in the emergency department.
Inpatient addiction medicine consultation services reduced 90-day mortality for patients with substance use disorder after a hospital discharge, but showed mixed results on acute care utilization.
Profiles CAPABLE, is a participant-driven model that improves function by addressing the home environment and using the strengths of the older adults themselves.
Explored how complex care stakeholders can incorporate a multi-factor approach to measure and demonstrate the value of complex care programs for diverse stakeholders.
Home-based primary care did not decrease hospitalizations for people with dementia, but it did result in more patient- and family-centered end-of-life care.
Details a partnership between Commonwealth Care Alliance, a non-profit community-based payer and provider serving people with significant needs, and Hearth, a non-profit community-based organization focused on ending elder homelessness, to provide permanent supportive housing for eligible individuals.
This Tradeoffs podcast episode explores how states and the federal government are grappling with if and how they should permanently change policies around telehealth and addiction treatment post-pandemic.