Community resource referral platforms: A guide for health care organizations

This report from Social Interventions Research & Evaluation Network (SIREN) details the functionalities of nine different software platforms that enable healthcare organizations to more easily identify and refer patients to social service organizations. It includes a side-by-side comparison table and detailed profiles of the platforms’ features, as well as implementation lessons learned and recommendations from...

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How do community health centers pay for social care programs?

Community health centers have long incorporated social correlates of health into their work, and this report from the Social Interventions Research & Evaluation Network (SIREN) and the Center for Care Innovations lays out ways in which community health center innovators initiate and sustain social care programs, as well as the many barriers they face in...

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Fact sheet: Complex care health settings and medical-legal partnerships

This fact sheet from the National Center for Medical Legal Partnership, MLPB, the National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs, and PennMedicine Lancaster General Health captures learnings from a medical-legal partnership pre-conference held at our annual conference, Putting Care at the Center, in December 2018. It describes five complex care settings, including the Camden Coalition...

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7-Day Pledge: Avoiding hospital readmissions through rapid connection to primary care

This evaluation of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers’ 7-Day Pledge program, published in JAMA Network Open, shows that rapid connection to primary care after hospital discharge can help avoid readmission. Patients who had primary care appointments within seven days of hospital discharge had significantly lower numbers of 30- and 90-day hospital readmissions. Below, find...

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