The Better Care Playbook

Thrilled to once again share insights on evidence-based and innovative approaches in #ComplexCare at the Camden Coalition's Putting Care at the Center conference! It's inspiring to connect with passionate folks who are dedicated to improving care for individuals facing complex medical, behavioral health, and social needs. Big thanks to Logan Kelly and Megan Lisch, MPH, for their outstanding representation ?? The Playbook looks forward to continued collaboration and learning that drives positive change in the field! Learn more about the Better Care Playbook: https://lnkd.in/e2r54NBF

CHCS' The Better Care Playbook is excited to be kicking off this year's Putting Care at the Center 2024 conference here in Pittsburgh! The Playbook is cohosting a preconference symposium, in partnership with Camden Coalition and UPMC Health Plan, where complex care experts from across the country are sharing insights and research on effective strategies for addressing social needs in health care and translating evidence into practice to improve care delivery. Thank you to Allison Hamblin, CHCS President & CEO, for setting the stage for today's conversations! In this first session, Karla Silverman, CHCS Associate Director of Complex Care Delivery,?is moderating a panel on what current research is revealing about supporting social care interventions through health care. Providers, policymakers, and payers are routinely supporting screening patients for health-related social needs and connecting those who screen positive to resources like housing, food, and transportation. Yet, while the importance of addressing unmet social needs is clear, the best way to intervene is not. National experts on social care programs — Caroline Fichtenberg, Co-Director, Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network (SIREN); Pamela Corcoran, Advisory Council Member, The Center to Advance Consumer Partnership, Camden Coalition National Consumer Scholar; and Seth Berkowitz, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine — are exploring the impact of these programs on patients and what the evidence shows works and what doesn’t. #CenteringCare24 #EcosystemsOfCare #ComplexCare #HRSN #SDOH

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Join the Better Care Playbook next week on October 16 at this preconference symposium, "Social Needs in Healthcare: Turning Evidence into Practice." Complex care experts from across the country will share insights and research on effective strategies for addressing social needs in health care and translating evidence into practice to improve care delivery. Co-hosted by Camden Coalition, The Better Care Playbook, and UPMC Health Plan, this implementation-focused event will help attendees understand successful strategies for adopting evidence-based approaches to address health-related social needs. It's geared toward anyone seeking to address patients’ social needs, including providers, payers, policymakers, researchers, community-based organizations, and patient advocates. Register for the symposium or the full three-day conference. https://bit.ly/4bNxV7r ?? #complexcare #socialcare #sdoh #CenteringCare24

Implementation is too often where health policy falls down ?? Checkout our Evidence Roundup series, where we connect evidence and implementation resources with emerging state and federal policies to enhance services for people with complex health and social needs. Explore the series: https://bit.ly/3WN8I7o

Medical respite care provides a range of essential services for people experiencing homelessness who are recovering from illness, injury, or hospitalization. These programs combine short-term housing with access to medical, behavioral, and other critical services, helping to interrupt cycles of homelessness and hospitalizations. This Better Care Playbook Evidence Roundup explores emerging evidence on the effectiveness of medical respite care at improving key patient outcomes, as well as reducing hospital readmissions and emergency department visits. https://bit.ly/47zEytb

How Can Research on Social Care Integration Inform Policy Decision-Making? | At the October 16 symposium, “Social Needs in Healthcare: Turning Evidence into Practice,” join this session that will give attendees the opportunity to hear how state and local governments are using a growing evidence base to design and implement new health-related social needs strategies, spurred by new opportunities at the federal level. Panelists David Kelley, Allison Rizer, MHS, MBA, and Erin Dalton will discuss research and data gaps that need to be filled to scale these efforts. Register for the symposium, or the full three-day conference in Pittsburgh, PA. https://bit.ly/4bNxV7r #complexcare #socialcare #sdoh #CenteringCare24 The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, Allegheny County Department of Human Services, UPMC Health Plan, James Schuster

In July 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) model, a new payment approach to support comprehensive dementia care. Under the GUIDE model, Medicare Part B providers will receive a capitated per beneficiary payment for providing integrated care that addresses health care and daily life needs while also supporting family caregivers. This blog post explores the need for this new payment model, resources available to help GUIDE providers succeed, and how providers can improve the quality of dementia care. https://bit.ly/3Xgn15G The John A. Hartford Foundation, Rani Snyder, Gary Epstein-Lubow,?Kiran Raja

Care management interventions that integrate community health workers can improve health outcomes. Community health workers (CHWs) who share similar health and life experiences with the people they serve can help assess and provide care for people with complex care needs. However, many community-based organizations (CBOs) employing CHWs lack the infrastructure needed to facilitate contracting with health care entities. The Pathways Community HUB Institute (PCHI) Model coordinates the administration and infrastructure for a network of CBOs and their partnerships with health care entities, with CHWs as an integral component. This profile highlights the PCHI model, illustrating how community HUBs support CHWs in addressing individuals’ health and social needs through a standardized approach and outcomes-based payment to foster community-level change. https://bit.ly/3ZogC9X Mark Redding, Sarah Redding, Pathways Community HUB Institute (PCHI)

Putting the Evidence into Practice: Using Research to Impact How We Deliver Care on the Ground | At the October 16 symposium, “Social Needs in Healthcare: Turning Evidence into Practice,” join this session featuring expert panelists, Lucy Savitz, Damon Francis, and Chethan Bachireddy, who will explore practical evidence-based programs that address health-related social needs and real-world constraints that impact these interventions. Participants will be invited to share their own insights on how they’ve navigated these complexities to helping others in the field looking to do the same. Register for the symposium, or the full three-day conference in Pittsburgh, PA: https://bit.ly/4bNxV7r #complexcare #socialcare #sdoh #CenteringCare24 University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, Alameda Health System, Harris Health System, Camden Coalition, Dawn Wiest