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A produce prescription program measured benefit redemption and activity trends among a diverse group of Medicaid recipients in Massachusetts.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Improving Health and Reducing Homelessness through Cross-Sector Partnerships: Insights from California
This webinar will feature a panel on cross-sector collaboration efforts in California to improve services for people who are unhoused, as well as practical strategies for sustaining these partnerships.
Webinar
Building Successful Managed Care Programs with Community Health Workers’ Expertise
This brief offers tips for managed care organizations and Medicaid agencies on how to incorporate community health worker expertise when building or enhancing CHW programs.
Brief/Report
Budget Impact Tool for Implementing Contingency Management for Co-Occurring Alcohol Use Disorders and Serious Mental Illness
Data from an ongoing clinical trial is used to estimate the cost of implementing a contingency management program and develop a customizable budget impact tool.
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
Impact of Produce Prescriptions on Diet, Food Security, and Cardiometabolic Health Outcomes: A Multisite Evaluation of 9 Produce Prescription Programs in the United States
Produce prescription programs improved food and vegetable intake, food security, and health status among low-income adults.
Peer-Reviewed Article
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
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
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 in Primary Care
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.
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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
The Role of Community Health Workers in the Health and Well-Being of Vulnerable Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic
A telephone-based community health worker program offered critical supports for older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Peer-Reviewed Article