HealthLeaders Media July 3, 2019
Christopher Cheney

A new proposal provides guidance for partnerships between primary care practices and community-based organizations to address social needs.

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Development of standardized and interoperable information platforms is essential to coordinate the efforts of physician practices and their community partners to address patients’ social determinants of health.

To ensure that referrals to community partners are successful, primary care practices need to be informed about social-need referral outcomes.

The United Hospital Fund has developed a four-part framework for healthcare organizations to address social determinants of health in the communities they serve.

Social determinants of health (SDOH) such as housing, food security, and transportation can have a pivotal impact on the physical and mental health of...

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