Physician Biases Toward People with Disability and Implications for Care Delivery
Examines findings from a nationwide survey on physicians' attitudes toward people with disability.
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April 2021
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Building a Culture of Person-Centered Care: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go
Researchers share their insights on whether older adults’ health care preferences are being taken into account and how health systems can become more person-centered.
Blog
February 2021
Evidence for the 4Ms: Interactions and Outcomes Across the Care Continuum
The 4Ms approach developed for the Age-Friendly Health System model — what matters, medication, mentation, mobility — has a robust evidence base for providing quality care to older adults.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Interventions at Hospital Discharge to Guide Caregivers in Medication Management for People Living with Dementia: A Systematic Review
Medication management interventions that support caregivers of people with dementia at care transitions can help reduce readmissions, caregiver burden, and use of high-risk medication.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Physicians’ Perceptions of People with Disability and Their Health Care
Many physicians report low confidence in caring for patients with disability and negative perceptions about quality of life with a disability, which may reflect biased views that potentially contribute to persistent health disparities.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Building Authentic and Mutually Beneficial Partnerships with Complex Care Consumers
Outlines key steps health systems can take to build relationships with complex care consumers.
Play
January 2021
Tracking Progress on Person-Centered Care for Older Adults: How Are We Doing?
Reveals inequities in how aging adults’ care preferences are taken into account based on race/ethnicity, income, health insurance status, and other variables.
Brief/Report
Adopting a Trauma-Informed Approach to Improve Patient Care: Foundational Organizational-Level Steps
Offers practical recommendations for providers and other health care organizations interested in taking foundational steps to become more trauma-informed.
Play
November 2020
Supporting Family Caregivers Providing Complex Care
Includes promising practices, recommendations, vignettes, and other helpful tools to assist health systems in supporting family caregivers providing complex care.
Implementation Tool
Ten Lessons from the C-Suite: Health Care Leaders Shed Light on Margin, Mission, and the Five Percent
Shares current health care leaders’ perspectives on the emerging field of complex care and how they are working to solve its so-called "margin-mission" tension.
Blog
October 2020
Practice Considerations for Trauma-Informed Care at End of Life
Applying principles of trauma-informed care for patients at end of life.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Reimbursement for Evidence-Based Health Promotion Programs in the Community
Details funding opportunities and successful approaches in the adoption of evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention programs within community-based organizations.
Brief/Report
How a Nonprofit Organization Gets Paid to Address Health-Related Social Needs
Highlights how the Commonwealth Fund's social determinants of health ROI calculator can help community-based organizations and health system partners integrate nonmedical services in a financially sustainable way.
Blog
July 2020
Trauma-Informed Telehealth in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond
Trauma-informed telehealth can help mitigate negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Implementing Best Practices in Dementia Care
Clinical tools, training resources, and case studies of evidence-based care models that support people living with dementia and their caregivers.
Implementation Tool
Empowering Goals of Care for Vulnerable Communities During COVID-19
Details the proactive approach of Cambridge Health Alliance, a public ambulatory care and hospital system in the Boston area, to initiate goals of care conversations with high-risk patients in their respiratory clinic.
Blog
June 2020
Experience of Emergency Department Use Among Persons with a History of Adverse Childhood Experiences
Trauma-informed approaches in emergency departments may improve experiences of adults with high rates of adverse childhood experiences.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Where is the Break-even Point for Community Health Workers? Using National Data and Local Programmatic Costs to Find the Break-even Point for a Metropolitan Community Health Worker Program
Community health worker programs can offset program costs through reduced utilization.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Health Care Access Now: Calculating the ROI of a Care Coordination Program to Address Social Determinants of Health
Demonstrating return-on-investment to advance effective business relationships between community-based organizations and health care partners.
Case Example
Homage: Calculating the ROI of a Partnership to Meet the Health-Related Social Needs of Medicare Advantage Plan Members
How can a community-based organization demonstrate the two-way financial benefits of partnering with a health plan?
Case Example