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.

Understand the implications of a recent federal rule designed to enhance care coordination for people with substance use disorder by allowing greater information-sharing among providers.

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.

Health care organizations and policymakers interested in understanding the evidence behind the use of telehealth in MOUD treatment can explore this Playbook Evidence Roundup.

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.

Explores emerging evidence on how telehealth impacts access to care and what resources exist to advance equitable telehealth access.