Partnering with Community-Based Organizations
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Unlock the power of collaboration! The @Health Equity Advisory Team (HEAT) has shared actionable guidance on fostering partnerships between #CBOs & healthcare entities.
Dive into insights across four key themes:
➡️ Collaborative Governance with Mutual Respect
➡️ Hubs as Conduits for Partnership
➡️ Enhancing CBO Capacity through Multi-Sector Partnership
➡️ Funding for Cross-Sectoral Collaboration
Download the document: https://bit.ly/HEATCBOGD #HealthEquity #CollaborationInAction
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The @Health Equity Advisory Team (HEAT) provides practical recommendations for healthcare entities to partner with #CommunityBasedOrganizations. Drawing from real-world examples of multi-sector collaboration, explore the insights here: https://bit.ly/HEATCBOGD
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The Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network’s (LAN) Health Equity Advisory Team (HEAT) has released a new guidance document, “Guidance for Health Care Entities Partnering with Community- Based Organizations: Addressing Health-Related Social Needs in Alternative Payment Models.”
Download today to learn how health care entities can authentically engage the communities they serve to reach historically underserved individuals and improve health equity outcomes!
Background: Previously, the HEAT identified partnerships between health entities and community-based organizations (CBOs) as an important driver of more equitable health outcomes in the design of alternative payment models (APMs) in their Theory of Change publication.
Now, the HEAT has developed this new guidance as a needed resource for health entities involved in designing and implementing APMs, organizing the content around four thematic categories derived from interviews with CBOs and community care hubs:
1. Collaborative Governance Grounded in Mutual Respect and Shared Decision-Making
2. Hubs and Neutral Conveners as Potential Conduits for Partnership
3. Building CBO Capacity and Infrastructure through Multi-Sector Partnership
4. Funding and Financing to Support Cross-Sectoral Collaboration to Address Social Needs
Interested in this resource? The HEAT has developed other guidance you might find useful, including:
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- The Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network’s – https://hcp-lan.org/
- Guidance for Health Care Entities Partnering with Community- Based Organizations: Addressing Health-Related Social Needs in Alternative Payment Models – https://hcp-lan.org/workproducts/APM-Guidance/HEAT-CBO-Partnership-Guidance.pdf
- Download today – https://hcp-lan.org/workproducts/APM-Guidance/HEAT-CBO-Partnership-Guidance.pdf
- Theory of Change – https://hcp-lan.org/apms-theory-of-change/
- Advancing Health Equity through APMs: Guidance for Equity-Centered Design and Implementation – https://hcp-lan.org/workproducts/APM-Guidance/Advancing-Health-Equity-Through-APMs.pdf
- Advancing Health Equity through APMs: Guidance on Social Risk Adjustment – https://hcp-lan.org/workproducts/APM-Guidance/Advancing-Health-Equity-Through-APMs-Social-Risk-Adjustment.pdf
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Mr. James Sinkoff is the Deputy Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer for Sun River Health (formerly known as Hudson River HealthCare), and the Chief Executive Officer of Solutions 4 Community Health (S4CH); an MSO serving FQHCs and private physician practices.
Victor is the Chief Medical Officer for TennCare, Tennessee’s Medicaid Agency. At TennCare, Victor leads the medical office to ensure quality and effective delivery of medical, pharmacy, and dental services to its members. He also leads TennCare’s opioid epidemic strategy, social determinants of health, and practice transformation initiatives across the agency. Prior to joining TennCare, Victor worked at Evolent Health supporting value-based population health care delivery. In 2013, Victor served as a White House Fellow to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Victor completed his Internal Medicine Residency at Emory University still practices clinically as an internist in the Veteran’s Affairs Health System.
Dr. Brandon G. Wilson, DrPH, MHA (he, him, his) joined Community Catalyst as the Director of the Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation, where he leads the Center in bringing the community’s experience to the forefront of health systems transformation and health reform efforts, in order to deliver better care, better value and better health for every community, particularly vulnerable and historically underserved populations. The Center works directly with community advocates around the country to increase the skills and power they have to establish an effective voice at all levels of the health care system. The Center collaborates with innovative health plans, hospitals and providers to incorporate communities and their lived experience into the design of systems of care. The Center also works with state and federal policymakers to spur change that makes the health system more responsive to communities. And it provides consulting services to health plans, provider groups and other health care organizations to help them create meaningful structures for engagement with their communities.
Tamara Ward is the SVP of Insurance Business Operations at Oscar Health, where she leads the National Network Contracting Strategy and Market Expansion & Readiness. Prior to Oscar she served as VP of Managed Care & Network Operations at TriHealth in Southwest Ohio. With over 15 years of progressive health care experience, she has been instrumental driving collaborative payer provider strategies, improving insurance operations, and building high value networks through her various roles with UHC and other large provider health systems. Her breadth and depth of experience and interest-based approach has allowed her to have success solving some of the most complex issues our industry faces today. Tam is passionate about driving change for marginalized communities, developing Oscar’s Culturally Competent Care Program- reducing healthcare disparities and improving access for the underserved population. Tamara holds a B.A. from the University of Cincinnati’s and M.B.A from Miami University.
Dr. Peter Walsh joined the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing as the Chief Medical Officer on December 1, 2020. Prior to joining HCPF, Dr. Walsh served as a Hospital Field Representative/Surveyor at the Joint Commission, headquartered in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois.
