New report on community-centered healthcare

Read about healthcare organizations’ experiences taking on the community determinants of health.
In 2011, Prevention Institute created the Community-Centered Health Homes (CCHH) model to provide healthcare organizations with a roadmap for identifying local community determinants of health and collaborating with partner organizations to improve community conditions.

Since the model was introduced, it’s been piloted in health clinics in Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Texas to take on issues as diverse as food insecurity, poor housing, workplace environmental hazards, and a lack of neighborhood parks and playgrounds.
Community-Centered Health Homes not only acknowledge that factors outside the clinic walls affect patient health outcomes. They actively participate in improving them.
Our new paper, Community-Centered Health Homes: Bridging Healthcare Services and Community Prevention, a second edition of the original paper, describes healthcare organizations’ experiences piloting the CCHH model and offers practical strategies for implementing it. The paper also includes a tool that healthcare organizations can use to assess what capacities they may need as they embark on efforts to improve community health. The paper was developed with the generous support of The Kresge Foundation.

Learn more about Community-Centered Health Homes
Watch our 3-minute animated video about a fictional Dr. Lau who sees patient after patient suffering from asthma attacks that are being triggered by community conditions like mold in patients’ homes and high levels of air pollution. Like so many real-life healthcare practitioners, she realizes clinical inventions alone can't get her patients the health outcomes they want without complementary community interventions. The video was created with the support of the Kresge Foundation, Episcopal Health Foundation, and Houston Endowment.
 
Read Nail salon workers helped us turn the idea of community-centered health into reality, an article in STAT by Dr. Andrea Caracostis of HOPE Clinic and Jo Carecedo of Episcopal Health Foundation. HOPE participates in the Episcopal Health Foundation’s Texas CCHH Initiative.

Read Texas must confront social, cultural, and physical barriers to health, an op-ed in the Houston Chronicle by Dr. Valerie Borum Smith of St. Paul Children’s Clinic. St. Paul is also part of the Texas CCHH Initiative.

Read Let's address hunger and other community determinants of health, a Modern Healthcare guest commentary by Dr. Pritesh Gandhi of the People’s Clinic, which also participates in the Texas CCHH Initiative.

PI would like to thank the many funders that have invested in the development and implementation of the CCHH model over the years, including: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation, Blue Shield of California Foundation, Center for Care Innovation, Episcopal Health Foundation, Houston Endowment, and The Kresge Foundation.

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