Category: Resources

Join the Partnership to Align Social Care and Camden Coalition for a monthly peer learning series that provides an opportunity for presenters and participants to go deeper into specific topics related to contracting between CBOs/CCHs and healthcare organizations.

Sessions will allow participants to:

• Participate in peer-to-peer learning about contracting between CBOs, CCHs, and healthcare organizations;
• Learn about and engage with stakeholders and leaders of the Partnership to Align Social Care;
• Find opportunities to support new CCHs and get involved in ongoing national initiatives;
  Generate new learning which can be packaged into future resources and leading practices.

Register for the series and learn more at www.partnership2asc.org/coffee-and-contracts!

The recording and materials are available for the February 27, 2024 Partnership to Align Social Care event, Meeting the Administration’s Call-to-Action: Leading Practices to Address Health-Related Social Needs in Communities Across the Nation, featuring a discussion with officials from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and key community and health care leaders on opportunities to address health-related social needs (HRSNs) through community partnerships.

Healthcare entities and social services providers are increasingly recognizing the importance of partnerships among historically siloed sectors to address health-related social needs (HRSNs). While the number of community-based organizations (CBOs) and community care hubs (CCHs) pursuing contracting relationships with healthcare organizations is increasing, CBOs and CCHs can experience challenges entering into contracting arrangements with the healthcare sector.

The Partnership to Align Social Care, the Aging and Disability Business Institute, and Camden Coalition created a Healthcare Guide to Contracting with CBOs. This toolkit offers a deep dive into leading contracting practices to effectively and efficiently address HRSNs. Each module focuses on the essential elements of contracting between health care and community partners and features leading practices from the field.

The Partnership to Align Social Care is a cross-sector effort to co-design a multi-faceted strategy to enable successful partnerships between healthcare organizations and networks of CBOs, or Community Care Hubs (CCHs). 

But, what is a Community Care Hub? Why is this model part of an important evolution toward achieving an equitable health and social care ecosystem? The Partnership and health and social care sector leaders recently hosted a series of webinars that dive into these and other important topics. All recordings and presentations are available from those events, and we encourage you to catch up and share this information with interested colleagues!

• Webinar 1: Cultivating Community Care Hubs: An Evolving Model to Improve Alignment between Health and Social Care Services outlines the important role of a CCH and provides examples from the field. (Recording and slides)

• Webinar 2: Integrating Community Care Hubs into Efforts to Address SDOH: A Playbook for State Medicaid Agencies, details the recent collaboration between Manatt Health and the Partnership to Align Social Care to create a resource for state Medicaid agencies and others seeking to partner with Community Care Hubs (CCHs) to integrate community-based organizations (CBOs) more effectively into their social drivers of health (SDOH) initiatives. The full playbook is available to download at https://www.partnership2asc.org/medicaidplaybook2022/ along with the webinar recording and slides.

• Webinar 3: Leveraging Multi-Payer Partnerships with Community Care Hubs to Build Equitable Health and Social Care Ecosystems, highlights opportunities to blend and braid multiple funding sources to support Community Care Hub capacity and service delivery and make the business case for the CCH model. (Recording and slides)

A recently released Health Affairs article, Improving Health And Well-Being Through Community Care Hubs, authored by a cohort of federal agency employees, details the importance of developing, supporting, and investing in multistakeholder collaborations to address social drivers of health. In particular, the authors point to the Partnership to Align Social Care, a national learning and action network, and its role to convene leaders across CBOs, health plans and systems, national associations, philanthropy, and federal agencies to co-design a multifaceted strategy to enable successful partnerships among health care organizations and hubs. Read the blog and more resources about Community Care Hubs at www.partnership2asc.org/cch-resources.

A new one-of-a-kind resource—prepared by Manatt Health in collaboration with the Partnership to Align Social Care, and with support from The SCAN Foundation—intends to help state Medicaid agencies seeking to partner with CBO networks and Community Care Hubs in the design and implementation of SDOH initiatives.

Working with Community Care Hubs to Address Social Drivers of Health: A Playbook for State Medicaid Agencies aims to help state Medicaid leaders and other stakeholders:

• Identify opportunities for state Medicaid agencies to partner with networks of community-based organizations (CBOs) and Community Care Hubs (CCHs) to address SDOH;
• Introduce state Medicaid leaders to the key functions of CCHs, and provide practical advice on how state Medicaid agencies can collaborate with CCHs;
• Highlight strategies to overcome existing challenges around establishing and building sustainable relationships between CBOs and health care organizations; and
• Feature practical examples, tips and links to materials used to support SDOH and CCH efforts in communities across the country.

View the full Playbook

Read the Executive Summary

Watch the Playbook webinar and download slides