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Community Engagement Interventions to Improve Health Equity

Understand emerging evidence and best practices for implementing community engagement interventions to better meet community needs and improve health equity.

Collection

March 2024

How the Camden Coalition is Applying Research Lessons to Improve Care Delivery

This webinar described how the Camden Coalition has refined and expanded programs in recent years to more effectively care for adults with complex health and social needs and integrate lessons from this evidence.

Webinar

February 2024

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

January 2024

Improving Diabetes Control in a Medicaid Managed Care Population With Complex Needs

A primary care-based integrated care team supports patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes in reducing A1c levels.

Peer-Reviewed Article

December 2023

Evaluating the Impact of a Mobile Integrated Health‒Community Paramedicine Program on Health-Related Social Needs and Hospital Readmissions.

Addressing care coordination and medication-related needs within a mobile integrated health care-community paramedicine program leads to a reduction in hospital readmissions.

Peer-Reviewed Article

November 2023

The Return on Investment (ROI) Calculator for Healthcare Partnerships to Address Social Needs

This tool can support health care and community-based organizations in building sustainable cross-sector partnerships.

Implementation Tool

October 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

October 2023

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

August 2023

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

June 2023

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

June 2023

Addressing Health-Related Social Needs Via Community Resources: Lessons From Accountable Health Communities

Barriers to community social services to address health-related social needs persist despite screening and referral programs in clinical settings.

Peer-Reviewed Article

May 2023

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

May 2023

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

April 2023

Building Bi-Directional Referral and Communication Pathways Across the Community-Clinic Divide Experiences from a Systems-Informed Innovation Project in Los Angeles

Well-designed bidirectional community and referral pathways may help bridge the community-clinic divide.

Case Example

March 2023

Community Health Worker Model Best Practice Toolkit for Designing, Implementing and Showing Impact

Toolkit provides best practices and practical tools for designing, implementing, and evaluating the impact of community health workers.

Implementation Tool

March 2023

Advancing Trauma- and Resilience-Informed Health Care Systems: Early Lessons from Denver Health

Highlighted how Denver Health, a large health system in Colorado, is integrating a trauma- and resilience-informed approach into organization-wide policy and practice.

Webinar

February 2023

Results of a Peer Navigator Program to Address Chronic Illness Among Persons Experiencing Homelessness

Embedded peer navigators provide support and mentorship for people experiencing homelessness, leading to increases in chronic disease screening and referrals.

Peer-Reviewed Article

February 2023

Partnering with Community Health Workers/Promotores to Adapt, Deliver, and Evaluate a Home-Based Collaborative Care Model to Improve Access to Quality Depression Care for Older Latino Adults

A home-based collaborative care model using community health workers shows reductions in depression and increased connection to services for older adults.

Peer-Reviewed Article

February 2023

Observational Analysis of a Generalized, Health Plan-led Community Health Worker Intervention in Medicaid

Medicaid health plan-led community health worker program showed moderate evidence for increased outpatient care and primary care use.

Peer-Reviewed Article

January 2023

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Community Engagement Interventions to Improve Health Equity

How the Camden Coalition is Applying Research Lessons to Improve Care Delivery

Adopting Trauma-Informed Care in Rural Areas: Lessons from a Community Behavioral Health Partnership in Pennsylvania

Improving Diabetes Control in a Medicaid Managed Care Population With Complex Needs

Evaluating the Impact of a Mobile Integrated Health‒Community Paramedicine Program on Health-Related Social Needs and Hospital Readmissions.

The Return on Investment (ROI) Calculator for Healthcare Partnerships to Address Social Needs

Community Member Engagement Resource Center

Addressing Healthcare Utilization and Costs for Older Adults with Limited Mobility Through a Multidisciplinary Home-Based Primary Care Program

Assessment of the Massachusetts Flexible Services Program to Address Food and Housing Insecurity in a Medicaid Accountable Care Organization

Addressing the Complex Needs of Older Adults through Strong Community-Based Organization and Health Plan Partnerships

Addressing Health-Related Social Needs Via Community Resources: Lessons From Accountable Health Communities

Integration on the Frontlines of Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations and Associations with Perceived Care Quality, Health Equity, and Satisfaction

Community Health Worker Programs

Community Health Worker Integration with and Effectiveness in Health Care and Public Health in the United States

Building Bi-Directional Referral and Communication Pathways Across the Community-Clinic Divide Experiences from a Systems-Informed Innovation Project in Los Angeles

Community Health Worker Model Best Practice Toolkit for Designing, Implementing and Showing Impact

Advancing Trauma- and Resilience-Informed Health Care Systems: Early Lessons from Denver Health

Results of a Peer Navigator Program to Address Chronic Illness Among Persons Experiencing Homelessness

Partnering with Community Health Workers/Promotores to Adapt, Deliver, and Evaluate a Home-Based Collaborative Care Model to Improve Access to Quality Depression Care for Older Latino Adults

Observational Analysis of a Generalized, Health Plan-led Community Health Worker Intervention in Medicaid