Respite Care Resource Guide
This report identifies policy strategies for states to expand access to respite care for caregivers.
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Family Caregiver Strategy Action Guide for MLTSS Plans
Recommendations for how managed long-term services and supports plans can better raise awareness of and increase support for family caregivers.
Brief/Report
A Descriptive Study of Screening and Navigation on Health-Related Social Needs in a Safety-Net Hospital Emergency Department
Emergency department-based social needs screening and referrals lead to a reduction in emergency department visits.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Measuring Quality in Home and Community Based Services (HCBS): Key Considerations for Health Plans
Guidance for health plans for improving quality of home- and community-based services.
Implementation Tool
Using Person-Centered Language
This tip sheet provides guidelines for how health plans and provider organizations can use more person-centered language.
Implementation Tool
Integrated Services to Better Meet the Needs of Dually Eligible Beneficiaries: State of the Field
Features a conversation with José Figueroa, MD, MPH, that explores emerging evidence behind integrated care programs and what is known about the impact of these programs on the populations they serve.
Blog
January 2024
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
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
A Housing and Health Collaboration: Mount Rubidoux Manor and Inland Empire Health Plan
Embedding a health navigator in a senior housing community improved residents’ sense of physical, mental, and social well-being.
Case Example
Turning Nursing Homes into True Homes: The Household Model
Profiles the Household Model, which creates home-like environments for nursing home residents to offer greater dignity, autonomy, and infection control, as well as establishes closer, more family-type relationships between residents and staff.
Blog
December 2023
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
An Embedded Approach to Engaging Community Members: Lessons from Southcentral Foundation’s Nuka System of Care
Features a conversation with two Southcentral Foundation leaders to learn how their approach to patient engagement has evolved over the years and the role it plays in improving care and advancing equity across their system.
Blog
December 2023
State Opportunities to Build on New Federal Regulations to Increase Nursing Home Transparency
Describes a new federal rule released in November 2023 to increase transparency in nursing home operations.
Blog
December 2023
What to Know about Nursing Home Staffing Minimums
Outlines current federal rules and research findings on nursing home staffing to help inform policymakers in setting nursing home staffing guidance.
Blog
December 2023
Care Ecosystem Collaborative Model and Health Care Costs in Medicare Beneficiaries with Dementia
Randomized controlled trial shows that a collaborative dementia care model leads to reduction in costs among a sample of Medicare patients.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Association Between ICD-10 Codes for Social Needs and Subsequent Emergency and Inpatient Use
An association between Z code assignment and increased emergency and inpatient health care utilization presents opportunities for targeted interventions that address patients' social needs.
Peer-Reviewed Article
The Return on Investment (ROI) Calculator for Healthcare Partnerships to Address Social Needs
This tool can support health care and community-based organizations in building sustainable cross-sector partnerships.
Implementation Tool
Bending Evaluation Orthodoxy in Complex Care
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.
Blog
December 2023
The Critical Role of Data Infrastructure in Community-Based Organization Networks
Explores the challenges in data access and exchange in contracting between community-based organization networks and health care entities.
Blog
December 2023
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