HSA-3010 v1

Amarasingham, R., Xie, B., Karam, A., Nguyen, N., & Kapoor, B. (2018, January). Using community partnerships to integrate health and social services for high-need, high-cost patients. The Commonwealth Fund Issue Brief, 1-11.
Community health programs seek to partner with other sectors of the healthcare delivery system to address both the psychosocial-behavioral and medical needs of patients with multiple issues. These authors provide their research findings from more than 300 partnerships.

Carlton, E. L., & Singh, S. R. (2018). Joint community health needs assessments as a path for coordinating community-wide health improvement efforts between hospitals and local health departments. American Journal of Public Health, 108(5), 676-682.
Carlton and Singh offer insights into how hospitals can be part of a community health needs assessment and the benefits of their participation.

Hegwer, L. R. (2017). The future of healthcare finance: Focusing your strategies amid uncertainty. Healthcare Executive, 32(3), 11-16.
In the initiative to focus on quality and safe healthcare, Hegwer offers strategies to maximize the reimbursement payments including alternate payment models and educating physicians on pay-for-performance.

Powers, M. (2018). The community's emerging role in value-based health and social services. Generations, 42(1), 4-8.
Powers offers a perspective on the role of community-based organizations in providing value-based healthcare services due to community health visibility in home health, wellness, and prevention programs.

Silow-Carroll, S., & Rodia, D. (2013, April). Forging community partnerships to improve health care: The experience of four Medicaid managed care organizations [PDF document]. The Commonwealth Fund Issue Brief, 19, 1-18.
Silow-Carroll and Rodia examined community partnerships of organizations serving Medicaid patients to determine the best practices reported by the members.