Lessons from Los Angeles County’s Housing for Health program to reduce homelessness.

Housing First programs reduce homelessness and health care use more effectively than Treatment First approaches.

Community health worker programs can offset program costs through reduced utilization.

The value of community health workers in advancing health equity.

Using community health workers can reduce hospitalizations in high-risk patients.

CHW intervention reduced health care costs and utilization for low-income women with depression.

Demonstrating return-on-investment to advance effective business relationships between community-based organizations and health care partners.

How can a community-based organization demonstrate the two-way financial benefits of partnering with a health plan?

Highlighted innovations adopted by PACE organizations during the pandemic to provide care for older adults with complex needs.

Effective complex care measures vary widely and need to be standardized to better align the field of complex care.

Health homes may increase access to mental health care and substance use disorder treatment in Medicaid enrollees with serious mental illness and/or substance use disorders.

Provider-based model identifies patients at highest risk for complications from COVID-19.

Social workers on rural primary care teams may help decrease high-risk veterans’ acute care use.

California’s Whole Person Care pilot can inform cross-sector initiatives to improve care for Medicaid enrollees with complex health and social needs.

Multisector partnerships that include Area Agencies on Aging may reduce health care use and spending.

Promising approaches to reduce loneliness for older adults in community and institutional settings.

Adults with complex, high-cost health care needs are more likely to have experienced social adversity in childhood and adulthood.

High-need, high-cost older adult patients detail their health care goals, which may inform provider efforts to effectively engage with and care for these patients and their family caregivers.

Among high-cost Medicare enrollees, those who are seriously ill, frail, and/or had a serious mental illness experience the most potentially preventable spending.

Strategies for reducing the impact of social isolation and loneliness on older adults.