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Community Integration: Pushing the Boundaries for a Better World

Integrated Care News by CFHA

On October 6, 2017, a van loaded with medical supplies departed from the Health Center, bound for the local airport. The plane was piloted by a native of the island, deeply committed to helping his community. What followed was a powerful expression of community and compassion.

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Health Trends Across Communities: Engaging Healthcare Systems, Public Health and Community in a Statewide Public Health Tool [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Building patients’ and health professionals’ trust in health research includes responsibly sharing health information. Objective: To use an iterative, community-engaged process to inform the development of the publicly-available HTAC dashboard. Study Design and Analysis: Qualitative descriptive.

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Comparing impact of a holistic patient centered navigation model to an online navigation service on health care utilization [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Primary care providers in 12 Ottawa and Sudbury (Ontario, Canada) practices referred their patients with health or social needs to access needed SP services. Dataset Of the 326 enrolled patients, 150 consented and had their data successfully linked to health administrative data housed at ICES (ARC=83, Ontario-211: 67).

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Patient experience with Social Prescribing Program in Ontario, Canada [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Social Prescribing (SP) is an approach to help individuals address their health and social needs wherein a healthcare practitioner refers patients to non-clinal services in the community. Models of SP vary, and the experience of patients across these models is less known.

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An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On Why Integrated Care Should Be a Cornerstone of the HHS Agenda

Integrated Care News by CFHA

It offers care where people already are: their doctor’s office, their community mental health clinic, their OB/GYN’s exam room. Invest in Person-Centered, Data-Informed Care Support the use of measurement-based care (MBC), which allows providers to track symptoms over time, improve quality, and avoid unnecessary treatments.

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Combining evidence and experience for research recruitment and participation among patients in US community health centers [Research capacity building]

Annals of Family Medicine

Community health centers (CHCs) are recognized as trusted care providers with unique potential to support more effective recruitment and participation approaches. Context: Researchers and funders are recognizing the urgent need for more inclusive and representative clinical research to advance health equity.

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Differing Perceptions of Older Adults Reasons for Refusing Services Among Staff, Caregivers, and Older Adults [Geriatrics]

Annals of Family Medicine

While older adults strongly prefer to age in their own homes, they often refuse home- and community-based services (HCBS) which can support their ability to age in place, prevent health decline, mitigate functional problems in living, and ease burden on caregivers. Findings have important implications for patient-centered interventions.

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