Healthcare Innovation June 17, 2021
The hospital is working with a local social services agency to leverage community referral and case management software to support residents in need
Increasingly now, healthcare stakeholders are collaborating with community-based organizations and social service agencies in an effort to connect clinical care with just as important non-medical social determinants of health (SDOH) data.
In Pueblo, Col., for example, the non-profit hospital Parkview Medical Center is connecting with Catholic Charities Pueblo, an agency that serves over 12,000 individuals each year across 29 counties with the largest concentration of services offered in Pueblo County. As one of the main non-for-profit social service agencies in Southern Colorado, Catholic Charities operates 24 programs and services to address the needs of both children and...