Health Care
A selection of informational materials to promote further understanding and development of the ACH model.
- 211 CIE San Diego
- AGD Consulting
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina
- BUILD Health Challenge
- Building Healthy Places Network
- CA Children's Trust
- CACHI Publication
- California Health Care Foundation
- Camden Coalition
- Center for Community Engagement and Health Innovation
- Center for Health Care Strategies
- Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation
- Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services
- ChangeLab Solutions
- CHCF
- CMS
- Commonwealth Fund
- De Beaumont Foundation
- Desert Vista Consulting et al.
- En español
- External Publication
- Families USA
- Health Affairs
- Health Begins
- Health Resources in Action
- HealthLeads
- Hospital Research and Education Trust
- KPMG
- Moving Healthcare Upstream
- National Academy of Medicine
- National Quality Forum
- Nemours
- Research Triangle Institute
- SIREN
Elements of the ACH orientation packet translated for Spanish-speaking audiences. Includes “About CACHI,” “The ACH Framework” and “Insights from the FIeld.”
Elementos del paquete de orientación de ACH traducidos para audiencias de habla hispana. Incluye “Acerca de CACHI”, “El Esquema de las ACH” y “Perspectivas de los Participantes sobre las ACH”.
This report is a comprehensive analysis of the first five years of ACH implementation in California. It offers ten key insights on how to successfully launch and grow an ACH gleaned from the experiences, successes and challenges of the first 13 ACHs launched in the state. These findings help inform future ACH implementation as the model scales and spreads to other geographies within California and nationally.
Health Affairs article authored by CACHI.
Defines and differentiates hospitals’ community-level SDOH activities.
Provides relevant evidence on the costs of health-related social need interventions and/or their impact on health care utilization and cost of care for use with ROI Calc.
Describes the health-related social needs Screening Tool from the federal Accountable Health Communities (AHC) Model & shares promising practices for universal screening.
Helps health care organizations to increase the primary care improvement efforts that center racial equity.
Evaluation of three Community-Centered Health projects that focused on shifts in health care practices to look beyond the walls of health care facilities.
Summarizes the implications of Governor Newsom's 2022 proposed change to hospital community benefits requirements.
Describes perspectives of Medicaid managed care organizations on emerging promising practices of addressing social determinants of health among their Medicaid enrollees.
Identifies four dimensions of value related to cross-sector collaboration: intrinsic benefits, community engagement, outcomes, & sustainable system-level change.
Provides a framework for food system collaborations with health care provides along with legal and policy considerations for food system interventions.
Provides findings from the field about barriers to, and accelerators for, health care to carry out backbone or integrator functions as part of multi-sector collaborative.
Provides direct access to the community benefit spending information from tax-exempt hospitals throughout the United States.
Examines 40 Medicaid managed care contracts and 25 approved § 1115 demonstrations across the country to identify common themes for how to support SDOH-related activities.
Describes various screening tools used for assessing the social needs of patients.
Provides a playbook to guide community developers toward partnerships with hospitals and healthcare systems to improve health and equity.
Lays out a conceptual framework to organize delivery system and payment reform with health equity, and provides a menu of policy options for reducing health inequities.
Provides step-by-step guidance for how to develop a business case for investing in the social determinants of health, along with specific examples.
Profile and classify burgeoning initiatives, understand common challenges, and surface solutions to address those challenges.
Provides an organizing framework, with examples, to help hospitals and health systems take both internal and external actions to become more "upstream".
Provides insights from hospital executives about how health systems can move upstream to improve community health.
Describes innovations that safety net providers are implementing to address the social determinants of health.
"Provides several use cases to demonstrate how a public health agency can use electronic health data to address a public health challenge and overcome legal barriers"
Issued by the National Quality Forum (NQF), the roadmap guides healthcare providers and payers to use quality performance measures to eliminate healthcare disparities.
Provides guidance for how hospitals and health systems can accelerate their efforts to drive institutional alignment with community needs.
A "playbook" of effective methods, tools and strategies to create new partnerships with hospitals and sustain successful existing ones.
A 10-item screening tool, developed by the federal CMS, to enable clinicians to identify patient needs that can be addressed through community and social services.
Case study of a large academic medical center that has implemented an upstream population health strategy.
Describes an innovative practice that engages hospital leadership in efforts to align vision, priorities, and initiatives of community benefits with community needs.