Developing Mature Partnerships to Meet the Challenges of Our Time

This blog provides insight and commentary on how multi-sector partnerships advance through developmental phases, from formation through maturity, and particular competencies that drive momentum and the pitfalls that stall progress tend to change.

Authored by Bobby Milstein of ReThink Health, the blog discusses that more and more regions now rely on having capable, mature partnerships to fulfill vital roles as stewards of a fragile health system—a trend that will likely grow stronger as the nation faces such troubling trends as skyrocketing health care costs, entrenched inequities, eroding well-being, and lost productivity.

Moreover, the variety across our large, diverse country means these groups cannot follow a single blueprint. Instead, the champions of health system change need a flexible developmental framework to anticipate and adjust to changes over time.