Healthcare Innovation July 9, 2019
Pioneering provider organizations and health plans are moving forward to address housing, food insecurity, loneliness/social isolation, and other issues—as part of broader efforts to impact the health of communities
It was fascinating to read the report in the July issue of Health Affairs by David Tuller, “To Improve Outcomes, Health Systems Invest In Affordable Housing,” which describes the initiative began in 2016 by five integrated health systems and one Medicaid managed care plan in Portland, Oregon, to address homelessness and related social issues, by directly providing patients and plan members with housing.
As David Tuller reports, five multi-hospital systems and one not-for-profit Medicaid health plan joined together three years ago to provide direct housing to homeless and at-risk patients, through...
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