Nov 5, 2020 | Case Management, Community Outreach, Health Education
Health Outreach Partners and MHP Salud have collaborated on quarterly Technical Assistance (TA) articles aimed at diabetes prevention strategies for families, with a focus on both adults and children. These articles are based on field-tested strategies using Community...
Jul 21, 2020 | Advocacy, Community Outreach, Outreach and Enrollment, Resources, Sustainability
This publication outlines community health center traditional payment models and introduces value-based care and incentive payments to community health centers. It examines different incentive-based payment models and compares them to the current fee-for-service...
Nov 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
Happy Holidays! Every year, Health Outreach Partners staff travel to different places around the country to provide on-site trainings to health centers, conduct regional trainings for Primary Care Associations, attend and present at conferences, and do research for...
Jun 27, 2019 | Resources, Uncategorized
Data is essential as health centers attempt to balance the provision of care and recognizing how inequities impact the health of their patients and communities. Working toward health equity requires collecting information about the social determinants of health and...
Jun 27, 2019 | Resources, Uncategorized
How can we begin to work toward health equity? These examples of health centers and other organizations highlight innovative ways to address the social determinants of health. The strategies range from building health equity goals into the clinic model, while others...
Jun 27, 2019 | Resources, Uncategorized
Social determinants are “the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age that shape health.” The systemic disparities in these conditions lead to health inequities between individuals and communities. The following resources explore the social...
Jun 27, 2019 | Resources, Uncategorized
Health is a fundamental human right. Yet many still experience inequities in accessing care, in health outcomes, and in the social determinants of health. Any efforts to address these inequities need to begin with a shared understanding of “health equity.”...
Jun 27, 2019 | Resources, Uncategorized
“No one has a right to work with poor people unless they have a real analysis of why people are poor.” – Barbara Major, Former Director of St. Thomas Health Clinic HOP recognizes that the root causes of social inequities and health disparities are structural...
Jun 23, 2017 | Advocacy, Community Outreach, Resources, Transportation
HOP’s new report, Transportation and Health Access: Rides to Wellness Community Scan Project, describes the scope of the problem of transportation barriers and its financial impact due to missed appointments. Based on a national survey with health centers,...
Jun 12, 2017 | Case Management, Clinical Outreach, Community Outreach, Health Education, Patient Centered Medical Home, Resources, Sustainability
Robust, community-driven outreach models are critical for ensuring access to and utilization of health care services by underserved populations. However, under a traditional structure of payment for health services, many outreach activities and other enabling services...
