CACHI RESOURCES
Paquete de Orientación de CACHI en Español | CACHI Orientation Packet in Spanish
Elements of the ACH orientation packet translated for Spanish-speaking audiences. Includes “About CACHI,” “The ACH Framework” and “Insights from the FIeld.”
Elementos del paquete de orientación de ACH traducidos para audiencias de habla hispana. Incluye “Acerca de CACHI”, “El Esquema de las ACH” y “Perspectivas de los Participantes sobre las ACH”.
Transformation in Action: How Accountable Communities for Health Promote Collaboration, Systems Change and Health Equity
This report is a comprehensive analysis of the first five years of ACH implementation in California. It offers ten key insights on how to successfully launch and grow an ACH gleaned from the experiences, successes and challenges of the first 13 ACHs launched in the state. These findings help inform future ACH implementation as the model scales and spreads to other geographies within California and nationally.
Medicaid Reinvestment Requirements Can Improve Community Health And Equity
Health Affairs article authored by CACHI.
Community-Level Actions On The Social Determinants Of Health: A Typology For Hospitals
Defines and differentiates hospitals’ community-level SDOH activities.
Guide to Evidence for Health-Related Social Needs Interventions: 2022 Update
Provides relevant evidence on the costs of health-related social need interventions and/or their impact on health care utilization and cost of care for use with ROI Calc.
A Guide to Using the Accountable Health Communities Health-Related Social Needs Screening Tool
Describes the health-related social needs Screening Tool from the federal Accountable Health Communities (AHC) Model & shares promising practices for universal screening.
A Toolkit to Advance Racial Health Equity in Primary Care Improvement
Helps health care organizations to increase the primary care improvement efforts that center racial equity.
Building Community-Centered Health Emerging Lessons from Clinical-Community Partnerships in North Carolina
Evaluation of three Community-Centered Health projects that focused on shifts in health care practices to look beyond the walls of health care facilities.
Community Benefits in California: A New Chapter
Summarizes the implications of Governor Newsom's 2022 proposed change to hospital community benefits requirements.
Addressing the social needs of Medicaid enrollees through managed care: Lessons and promising practices from the field
Describes perspectives of Medicaid managed care organizations on emerging promising practices of addressing social determinants of health among their Medicaid enrollees.
Rethinking Value: Perspectives on the benefits of cross-sector collaboratives serving populations with complex health and social needs
Identifies four dimensions of value related to cross-sector collaboration: intrinsic benefits, community engagement, outcomes, & sustainable system-level change.
Legal & Policy Strategies for Health Care & Food System Partners
Provides a framework for food system collaborations with health care provides along with legal and policy considerations for food system interventions.
Preliminary Findings on the Role of Health Care in Multi-Sector Networks for Population Health
Provides findings from the field about barriers to, and accelerators for, health care to carry out backbone or integrator functions as part of multi-sector collaborative.
Community Benefit Insight
Provides direct access to the community benefit spending information from tax-exempt hospitals throughout the United States.
Screening for Social Needs
Describes various screening tools used for assessing the social needs of patients.
Addressing Social Determinants of Health via Medicaid Managed Care Contracts and Section 1115 Demonstrations
Examines 40 Medicaid managed care contracts and 25 approved § 1115 demonstrations across the country to identify common themes for how to support SDOH-related activities.
Partnerships for Health Equity and Opportunity: A Healthcare Playbook for Community Developers
Provides a playbook to guide community developers toward partnerships with hospitals and healthcare systems to improve health and equity.
A Framework for Advancing Health Equity and Value
Lays out a conceptual framework to organize delivery system and payment reform with health equity, and provides a menu of policy options for reducing health inequities.
Investing in Social Services as a Core Strategy for Healthcare Organizations
Provides step-by-step guidance for how to develop a business case for investing in the social determinants of health, along with specific examples.
Using Community Partnerships to Integrate Health and Social Services for High-Need, High-Cost Patients
Profile and classify burgeoning initiatives, understand common challenges, and surface solutions to address those challenges.