Rethinking value: Advancing equity requires showing impact beyond ROI

By Jason Turi, RN, MPH, Director of Field Building & Resources; Ellen Schultz, MS, Independent Consultant; Rebecca Sax, MPH, Senior Program Manager for Field Building & Resources In today’s healthcare system, “value” is everywhere. Value-based purchasing is the focus of major reform efforts. Building a value-case is the “make-or-break” imperative for many programs seeking to...

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Words matter: The evolution of complex care messaging

By Lisa Miller, Director for Communications and Content Development at the Camden Coalition; Rachel Davis, Director for Complex Care at the Center for Health Care Strategies; and Lorie Martin, Vice President for Communications at the Center for Health Care Strategies

As the field of complex care continues to evolve and ideas like social determinants of health and health equity become more mainstream, it has become increasingly important to create shared language and messaging for those working in the field. Doing so will not only facilitate the growth of programs across the country but may help address the inequities so many people with complex care needs experience on a regular basis.

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Anti-racism resource toolkit

This publication was produced by the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) Office of Health Equity as part of the National Center’s 2020 regional complex care convening cohort. The publication describes “Dismantling Systemic Racism in Pennsylvania,” the DOH convening of 200 participants across 26 state agencies. It includes an extensive toolkit of books, articles, videos, podcasts, and...

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Using data strategies to advance health and racial equity

This set of resources from the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) illustrates how convergent analysis — which helps to depict the extent that different health conditions coexist at their worst level — can be applied to publicly available data sets to advance health and racial equity. The toolkit includes examples of convergent analysis...

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