Leveraging Community Partnerships: How Advisory Boards Advance Screening, Referral, and Navigation Efforts
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Leveraging Community Partnerships: How Advisory Boards Advance Screening, Referral, and Navigation Efforts

Published: Feb 23, 2022
Publisher: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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Accountable Health Communities: Identifying and Addressing Social Determinants of Health

Time frame: 2017–2022

Prepared for:

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation

Authors

Rachel Kogan

Shauna Robinson

Barbara Singhakiat

Risa Nakajima

Toni Abrams Weintraub

Key Findings
  • Drawing on existing relationships can help to develop advisory boards. Given the AHC Model’s focus on screening, referral, and navigation to address health-related social needs (HRSNs), awardees often recruited advisory board members from local clinical or community service organizations.
  • Including community members and people with HRSNs helped to give awardees insight into needed services. Successful strategies for encouraging community member participation included removing barriers (for example by providing transportation to meetings or access to technology for virtual meetings) and offering financial compensation for their time.
  • To maintain changes made under the AHC Model, many awardees will continue to work with their advisory boards to identify sustainable funding streams for addressing HRSNs (such as alternative payment models or dedicated funding from state legislatures).

The Accountable Health Communities (AHC) Model required Alignment Track awardees to establish multisector advisory boards to better understand and address the needs of community members and beneficiaries participating in the Model. Mathematica conducted a series of focus groups with advisory board members and staff representing 17 Alignment Track awardees. This summary highlights key findings from the focus groups, including awardee experiences recruiting advisory board members, engaging with advisory boards, and effecting and sustaining change.

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