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What Can a CBO Do to Enhance a Hospital’s Performance?

- Lori Peterson, Collaborative Consulting
Categories: Understand the Landscape

We all know that cross-sector partnerships are an effective strategy for addressing social determinants of health and improving the health and well-being of older adults and people with disabilities. They can also improve operational and financial performance for hospitals and health systems. These partnerships create new opportunities, but only if CBOs position themselves as offering …

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New Resource Helps Centers for Independent Living Prepare for Contracting with Health Care Entities

- Jennifer Morgan, Independent Living Research Utilization
Categories: Get Started Understand the Landscape

Centers for Independent Living (CILs) and other community-based organizations (CBOs) have a prime opportunity to develop new contracts with health care providers and payers, including health plans, as these organizations seek to engage with CBOs for their expertise in improving services to and outcomes of clients. The roots that CILs have in consumer direction can …

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The Base Case: An HIT Funding Opportunity for Area Agencies on Aging

- Anne Montgomery, MS, is Deputy Director of Altarum’s Program to Improve Eldercare. Katy Weber, MPH, is a health and social services consultant specializing in population health for the aging population through the integration of medical and social services.
Categories: Get Started Understand the Landscape

  Despite a surging population of adults age 60 and older in the United States and increasing pressure for more integrated health and social services systems, the Aging Network faces significant challenges in accessing the necessary information technology (IT) infrastructure to achieve this integration. In 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health …

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Making the Case For Health- Related Services as a Key Component of Health Care

- Sue Lachenmyer, Maryland Living Well Center of Excellence – MAC, Inc.
Categories: Get Started Success Stories

Contracting with health care organizations requires Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs) and other community-based organizations (CBOs) to move from service-based reporting to alignment with clinical outcomes and, ultimately, to demonstrate lower health care costs, via reduced hospital readmission rates or other measurements. Providing individuals with person-centered options counseling and assessments, and connecting people with services …

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Aging and Disability Business Institute Selects Participants for Health Information Technology Learning Collaborative

- Aging and Disability Business Institute
Categories: Build Your Network Understand the Landscape

We are excited to announce that we have selected ten community-based organizations and networks that will take part in a Health Information Technology Learning Collaborative (HITLC). The need for community-based organizations (CBOs) to be well-versed in technology is growing, particularly as more and more of them diversify their funding sources by developing innovative partnerships with …

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Preparing Community-Based Organization Leadership Teams to Tackle Health Information Technology (HIT) Challenges

- Aging and Disability Business Institute and American Society on Aging
Categories: Build Your Network Define Your Value

From enhanced interactions with older adults and their caregivers to sharing data via health information exchanges, technology is changing how community-based organizations (CBOs) provide supports and services to their clients. The Aging and Disability Business Institute (Business Institute) aims to ensure that CBOs have tools and resources they can use to put today’s innovations to …

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Paving the Way Towards Sustainable Healthy Communities

- Marissa Whitehouse & Kathy Cameron, National Council on Aging, Washington, DC
Categories: Build Your Network Evaluate Contracts Get Started Understand the Landscape

Last month, the National Council on Aging’s (NCOA) Center for Healthy Aging brought together state and local agencies, community-based organizations (CBOs) and others that are implementing chronic disease self-management education (CDSME), falls prevention programs, and other evidence-based health promotion/disease prevention programs for its annual meeting in Arlington, VA. The theme for this year’s event was …

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Ensuring Health Systems Become Age-Friendly

- Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, President, The John A. Hartford Foundation
Categories: Define Your Value Understand the Landscape

  An exciting, long-overdue and much needed movement is underway to close current gaps and failures in health care for older adults so that it better meets our needs as we age. The Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative, conceptualized in 2015 and launched in 2017, has sparked innovation and improvement across the country and presents a …

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Serving Veterans through Collaboration A Veteran-Directed Home & Community-Based Services Program

- Jennifer Morgan & Richard Petty, Independent Living Research Utilization
Categories: Success Stories

This Aging and Disability Business Institute Success Story provides an overview of the structure and history of the partnership, discusses the nuts and bolts of the operations and the role of each partner, and describes lessons learned. The insights provided demonstrate how AAAs and CILs can partner to provide VD-HCBS. Read the Success Story to …

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Minnesota/South Dakota Veteran Directed Home and Community Based Services Program – A long standing partnership

- Jennifer Morgan & Richard Petty, Independent Living Research Utilization
Categories: Build Your Network Understand the Landscape

  In this new era of value-based care, which places an increasing emphasis on person-centered service delivery and interdisciplinary care teams, community-based organizations (CBOs) in the Aging and Disability Networks can come together to leverage strengths and serve as strong partners to health care entities’ integrated care programs. An example of this kind of synergy …

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Building Partnerships with Primary Care to Become a Hub for Service Delivery for Older Adults in Our Community

- Dana Schrage Transitional Care Supervisor, Aging Care Connections
Categories: Understand the Landscape

This blog entry describes a care model that community-based organizations (CBOs) working as part of the Aging Network can implement when partnering with local primary care providers.   The last decade has seen health systems move toward payment reforms that incentivize outcomes. There has also been a substantial growth in Medicaid managed care across the …

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