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The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
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The Importance of Integrated Care Models that Address Medical, Behavioral, and Social Health Needs
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The Importance of Integrated Care Models That Address Medical, Behavioral, and Social Health Needs

Advancing Integrated Models
01.29.2020
This blog highlights Advancing Integrated Models, a new Center for Health Care Strategies initiative providing the opportunity to align the delivery of critical components of high-quality care for individuals with complex medical and social needs.
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Complex Care
Health Care
Medicaid
Social Needs
Milestones for Community Integrated Health Care at Essential Hospitals
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Milestones for Community-Integrated Health Care at Essential Hospitals

America's Essential Hospitals
01.13.2020
This report identifies activities in which essential hospitals can engage as they begin to work outside their walls, specifically aspects of organizational commitment, workforce development, community engagement, external partnerships, health information technology and data, and finance and investment.
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Health Care
Social Needs
Outside the Hospital Walls: An Update on Essential Hospitals' Effort to Improve the Health of Their Communities
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Outside the Hospital Walls: An Update on Essential Hospitals’ Efforts to Improve the Health of Their Communities

America's Essential Hospitals
01.13.2020
This report highlights both the successes and remaining opportunities for social determinants of health work at essential hospitals. It presents evidence collected through a 2019 survey and interviews with population health executives, explores these findings, and compares the evidence with prior research.
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Aligning in Action: Michigan Health Improvement Alliance
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Aligning in Action: Michigan Health Improvement Alliance

Aligning Systems for Health
01.07.2020
This case study explores Michigan Health Improvement Alliance’s best practices for effectively aligning systems to meaningfully impact health inequities in a 14-county region of central Michigan.
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Health Care
Using Measurement to Drive Cross-Sector Alignment Towards Equitable Health Outcomes: An Environmental Scan Report
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Using Measurement to Drive Cross-Sector Alignment Towards Equitable Health Outcomes: An Environmental Scan Report

American Institutes for Research
01.2020
This environmental scan offers an overview of the breadth and variability within the landscape of cross-sector alignment initiatives and the many different ways in which these initiatives use measurement.
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Alignment 101
Payment Structures That Support Social Care Integration With Clinical Care: Social Deprivation Indices and Novel Payment Models
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Payment Structures that Support Social Care Integration with Clinical Care: Social Deprivation Indices and Novel Payment Models

Social Interventions Research & Evaluation Network
12.01.2019
This article published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine focuses on four models employed both internationally and domestically to outline the implementation, successes, limitations, and research needed to support national application of social determinants of health models.
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Alignment 101
Medicaid
Social Needs
Strategies to Achieve Alignment, Collaboration, and Synergy Across Delivery and Financing Systems: Closing Gaps in Health and Social Services for Low-Income Pregnant Women
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Closing Gaps in Health and Social Services for Low-Income Pregnant Woman

Systems for Action
11.20.2019
This webinar highlights and evaluates the effectiveness of the Los Angeles Maternity Assessment Management Access and Service program's four major components: a health home care management model, peer and community support, flexible funding for non-medical services, and an advanced health information technology platform.
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Social Needs
Aligning in Action: Yamhill Community Care Organization
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Aligning in Action: Yamhill Community Care Organization

Aligning Systems for Health
11.08.2019
This case study explores Yamhill Community Care Organization’s best practices for effectively aligning systems to meaningfully impact health inequities in Yamhill County, Oregon.
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Health Care
Medicaid
Social Needs
What Matters Most in Driving Cross-Sector Partnerships for Complex Populations
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What Matters Most in Driving Cross-Sector Partnerships for Complex Populations

National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs
11.05.2019
This webinar highlights how to establish cross-sector partnerships, using the work of Adventist Health’s Project Restoration and the Camden Coalition as case studies.
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Alignment 101
Complex Care
Aligning in Action: Allegheny County Health Department
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Aligning in Action: Allegheny County Health Department

Aligning Systems for Health
11.04.2019
This case study explores Plan for a Healthier Allegheny Advisory Coalition's best practices for effectively aligning systems to meaningfully impact health inequities in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
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Public Health
Social Needs