Recognizing the connection between people’s finances (income, cost of living and socioeconomic status) and their health, California’s hospitals have developed innovative community-based programs and activities that address key issues such as poverty, food insecurity, housing instability and homelessness, vocational training, and employment and income.
This piece appears on California Hospital Association’s Promoting Healthy Communities page.
Read MoreNecessary components for building robust health system and congregational partnerships to address social determinants of health and impact health care utilization include partnership growth, allocation of health system resources, community trust, and time. This commentary describes and compares the Congregational Health Network’s Memphis Model to early local efforts at clinical-faith community partnerships in North Carolina, which we call “The North Carolina Way.”
This piece appears in North Carolina's Medical Journal
Read MoreHealth systems and community stakeholders around the country are choosing collaborations to address the social factors that have created great health disparities between low-income and more-affluent neighborhoods. See pilots and lessons learned in this piece from Modern Healthcare on how health systems are reinvesting back into the community.
Steven Ross Johnson | June 2, 2018
This piece appears in the Care Delivery section of Modern Healthcare
Read MoreThe Health Impact Project launched an 18-month initiative in February 2016 that funded six projects aimed at addressing pressing health concerns in Southern and Appalachian states. Grantees targeted housing, education, neighborhood planning, and other sectors that are linked to disparities in health. Take a closer look at each of the projects in this piece from the Pew Charitable Trust.
Rebecca Morley and Emily Beaver | June 1, 2017
This piece is from The Pew Charitable Trust.
Read More"Albuquerque sits in the high desert straddling the Rio Grande River. It is the largest city in New Mexico, but despite the predominantly urban setting, there are still many areas with limited access to grocery stores and a lack of affordable produce. These factors contribute to the low rates of healthy food access and food security and the resulting high rates of chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease." In Albuquerque, NM, Presbyterian Hospital supports local agriculture, food access, equity, and economic development through community supported agriculture, a mobile market, and a wellness referral center.
This piece appears in Delivering Community Benefit: Healthy Food Playbook
Read MoreThis report offers an in-depth look at how the Toledo, Ohio based health system aligned its institutional operations and clinical practice to better tackle the social determinants of health. From an innovative hospital-owned grocery store in a food desert to investments in preserving affordable housing, this exploration of ProMedica's decade-long journey to understand how their resources as a healthcare anchor could be used for the wellbeing of the communities they serve is a useful guide for hospitals and health systems embarking on similar shifts.
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