This toolkit provides key considerations and templates for state Medicaid leaders seeking to establish coverage, payment, and policy guidance for community health workers.
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.
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.
A machine learning model helped identify primary care patients with major depression who are at high risk of frequent emergency department use and might benefit from collaborative care management.
Explores how community paramedicine programs have been implemented across the country, what evidence supports the effectiveness of these models, and how state and federal policies are helping to support the sustainability of these services.
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.
Explores how looking more deeply at the results of an underpowered randomized controlled trial using alternative analysis methods can uncover nuanced results or inform a program redesign.
Addressing care coordination and medication-related needs within a mobile integrated health care-community paramedicine program leads to a reduction in hospital readmissions.
Case study details how a health system used human-centered design approaches to address disparities in access to telehealth services, including through collaboration with patients.
California community paramedicine and triage to alternative destination programs lead to more coordinated care and reductions in emergency department visits and hospital readmissions.
Dawn Wiest, PhD, Director for Research and Evaluation at the Camden Coalition, discusses findings from an analysis of Camden Coalition’s care management program, which found that the program led to a significant reduction in hospital readmissions among engaged program participants.
Secondary analysis of Camden Coalition randomized controlled data found that care management participants who were the most likely to engage with the intervention had significantly lower readmission rates.
Pharmacy liaison-patient navigator programs offer a promising approach to streamline screening and system navigation efforts related to health-related social needs.