BETWEEN HEALTH CARE AND COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES

For decades, community-based organizations have operated as an unofficial extension of the healthcare system, providing a wide range of services that address the Social Determinants of Health to help people thrive in the community, especially after being discharged from emergency departments, skilled nursing facilities, and hospitals. Now that incentives have launched to encourage healthcare to partner and contract with CBOs, SSC is leaning in.

READYING CBOs

SSC is helping local gero-expert community-based organizations get ready to contract with healthcare so they can expand and improve access to community-based supportive services for older adults. 

ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS

SSC is performing an environmental analysis to identify needs and gaps, and uncover solutions that will address the unique needs of older people.

Find out some of what we’ve learned already.

FACILITATING COLLABORATION

SSC is helping organizations develop collaborative solutions in partnership with health entities. Recently SSC worked with CBOs and Kaiser Permanente to design and launch a pilot to address the unique needs of high utilizers at local KP hospitals.

Read Pilot Design for High Utilizers – Highlights.

HOW DID WE GET HERE?

For the last six years SSC has been building collaborative relationships with public and private sector entities to improve health and life outcomes for older people who live in our county. Learn more about the work and initiatives that have been leveraged to get us where we are today: