THE LARGER TREND
The ACL s challenge was born from the realization that providing community-based social services can reduce healthcare costs while improving health outcomes. With this challenge, the ACL is attempting to bridge medical care and social services to improve efficiency and outcomes.
The challenge will compete in three phases, with cash prizes awarded in each phase. The total prize pool available is $500,000.
Community-based referral programs are a common method used by healthcare organizations to address health inequalities. Independence Blue Cross and Signify Health recently launched CommunityLink, a community-based organization network targeting the social determinants of health in the Philadelphia region. Elsewhere, RWJBarnabas Health, in collaboration with NowPow and ConsejoSano, created the Health Beyond the Hospital program that refers patients to community-based services.
RWJBarnabas launches initiative to address systemic racism The initiative was born out of a realization that the health system needed to do more to improve outcomes and eliminate health disparities.
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One of New Jersey s largest academic healthcare systems, RWJBarnabas Health, announced this week a new initiative aimed at addressing systemic racism while promoting an antiracist culture within its organization and the communities it serves.
Called Ending Racism, Together, the program intends to create racial, ethnic and cultural equity by uplifting disenfranchised communities that face poor health, social, economic and educational outcomes at the hands of racism.
RWJBarnabas is focusing its efforts on four primary areas: patient care, workforce, community, and system operations. It has taken an evidence-based approach and each area has quantifiable tactics of measurement to track progress across the organizational, facility, and individual levels.