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Don't miss your opportunity to hear Dr. Srinivas Merugu's plenary presentation "The Community as a Patient: Understanding and Addressing SDoH to Achieve Health Equity" at the 2024 BHP Learning Collaborative on October 25th! Dr. Merugu, Senior Vice President of Population Health and President of the Institute for H.O.P.E. at the MetroHealth System, and former National Chief Medical Officer for Provider Strategy with United Healthcare Community and State, is an internist with over 10 years of clinical practice and 20 years of hospital administration, graduate medical education, and health plan experience. He will share his passion and approach for community service through direct engagement, partnerships and care delivery system reform. Register today: https://hubs.la/Q02MpdDJ0

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Are your kids starting to get bored this summer? That's okay according to Amber Thomas, Chief Clinical Officer with Crossroads Health, a BHP member. She recently appeared on FOX 8 News in the Morning to share advice for parents to balance their child’s boredom. Some of the benefits of boredom, according to Thomas, include building creative thinking, problem-solving and planning skills. Tips provided during the interview include parents balancing opportunities for structured activities with unstructured activities, not helping kids avoid boredom and working with younger kids to identify a list of interests, projects, and toys they can play with. Watch the interview here: https://hubs.la/Q02JQjGt0

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Register today for the 2024 Learning Collaborative: https://hubs.la/Q02JVPxF0 Join us in-person on Friday, October 25 from 8:00-3:30 to celebrate new and emerging developments that hold promise for advancing health and health equity, share best practices, and network. Dr. Philip Alberti's keynote address, "Community-Driven Health: A Call to Action," will inspire community-driven changes to improve population health, build trust and achieve health equity. And you won't want to miss the reaction panel of expert representatives from policy, community, health care and payor sectors. Other featured topics include: • The Community is our Patient: Plenary • Multi-stakeholder Strategies to Address Cancer Screening Care Gaps: Breakout Session • Innovative Ways to Leverage Epic: Breakout Session • Envisioning the Future: Better Health Partnership • BHP 2024 Collaborative Champion Award Presentation • And more... CME credits are available!

The initial quality improvement project of the Northeast Ohio Quality Improvement Hub, Achieving HEAlth Equity in Diabetes (AHEAD), seeks to improve the health of adults living with diabetes in Northeast Ohio. The latest AHEAD podcast, The Opportunity for Primary Care to Identify and Address Social Drivers of Health, provides a new resource for primary care clinicians caring for patients with diabetes - moderated by Anne Gaglioti, MD, MS, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and the The MetroHealth System (Cleveland, OH), and featuring Bode Adebambo, MD, CWRU and the MetroHealth System, and Chris Mundorf, PhD, MPH, Better Health Partnership’s Chief Strategy Officer. This 9th podcast in the series discusses the importance of addressing social drivers of health to advance health equity and offers promising models for screening and referring for health-related social needs in primary care practice. Listen here: https://hubs.la/Q02H1K0B0

📣 BIG MILESTONE! We are thrilled to share that the care coordination agencies (CCAs) working in the Better Health Pathways HUB have collectively earned over $1M in reimbursements from Medicaid managed care organizations using the Pathways Community HUB Institute® (PCHI) Model! "This major milestone underscores the positive impact community partnership and collaboration can make on our ability to advance health equity," said Jan L. Ruma, President & CEO, Pathways Community HUB Institute (PCHI). The CCAs, and the community health workers (CHWs) they employ, have helped connect thousands of individuals to necessary care and resources for needs related to food access, stable housing, utility maintenance, transportation to medical appointments and more. Achieving this milestone in reimbursements was made possible by BHP’s partnership with Ohio’s Medicaid managed care organizations including, AmeriHealth Caritas, Buckeye Health Plan, CareSource, Elevance Health (Anthem), Humana, Molina Healthcare, and UnitedHealthcare Community & State. Read more: https://hubs.la/Q02GlZl40

Learn about how a Cleveland Clinic CHW working in the Better Health Pathways Community HUB used the Cuyahoga County Emergency Palm Card to facilitate the right care at the right time for her pregnant client in our latest blog: https://hubs.la/Q02DDWGv0