A communication enhancement program improves frequency, quality, and documentation of serious illness conversations between oncology clinicians and patients with advanced cancer.

This conversation guide can help providers facilitate emotionally safe and comprehensive conversations with patients who have serious illness.

The integration of substance-use records into electronic health records, following the easing of federal confidentiality rules, aims to improve care coordination and program monitoring.

Overdose prevention centers in New York City are shown to avert overdose-related injury and death, reduce public drug use, and connect individuals to wraparound services.

Analysis of street medicine programs reveals differences in behavioral health services across programs, highlighting key facilitators and challenges to better integration of these services within street medicine.

Nurse practitioners’ ability to provide care independently in rural primary care clinics is associated with reduced emergency department use among older adults with substance use disorder.

Patient and staff interviews highlight the promise of hospital-based harm reduction programs.

Interdisciplinary care teams, telehealth, and flexible payment models are included as key recommendations to increase access to home-based primary care in rural communities.

Actionable and evidence-based guidance for integrating behavioral health care into primary care for older adults.

“Clubhouses” for people with serious mental illness are effective at promoting employment, reducing hospitalizations, and improving quality of life.

A telehealth-delivered opioid use disorder treatment program is associated with promising levels of care retention and medication adherence among rural populations.

A home-based palliative care program leads to reductions in hospitalizations and total cost of care, along with an increase in the use of hospice care.

Use of recovery housing leads to decreases in readmissions and emergency department visits among individuals recovering from substance use disorder, as well as increased use of primary care.

Incorporating community engagement into public health interventions leads to improved health outcomes and a greater sense of self-efficacy among intervention recipients.

Trust, flexible funding, cross-sector support, sustainability, and an explicit focus on structural racism are identified as key components of effective community engagement to advance health equity.

Consumers and staff members of health and social service organizations share their community engagement experiences.

Toolkit offers lessons for engaging people with lived experience in human services initiatives.

Colorado and Virginia’s Medicaid programs provide examples of states engaging communities to improve health outcomes.

Evidence map of patient and family engagement strategies highlights range of evidence on self-management support and shared decision-making.