Screening for and addressing patients’ social needs is an important step for providing holistic care.
Watch this virtual event to learn how MaineHealth and Children’s Hospital Colorado designed their social needs screening and referral strategies to align with the unique needs of their patients and communities.
Food insecurity affects far more than hunger. It influences physical health, mental well-being, academic performance, and long-term outcomes for children and families. In this episode, Stormee Williams, M.D., senior vice president and chief health equity officer at Children's Health, shares how her team is identifying food insecurity, why access to healthy food matters just as much as access to food itself, and how partnerships with schools and food banks are helping create healthier futures for children across North Texas.
The AHA’s Social Drivers of Health Framework presents a multi-tiered approach to inform hospitals’ strategies for addressing social drivers of health and ultimately improving the health and well-being of their patients and community members.
Tool to help hospitals and health systems facilitate sensitive conversations with patients about their nonmedical needs that may be a barrier to good health.
Webinar series highlights a comprehensive approach to identify and address the health-related social needs of patients and the wider community.
Resources to help clinicians address social determinants of health within a framework that maximizes their skills while helping organizations systematically approach these challenges. Members only.
Hear how Ascension’s Maternal Health Social System Initiative to reduce barriers to accessing prenatal care by addressing the social needs of their high-risk pregnant patients.
Social isolation and loneliness are important influencers of physical and mental health that we, as a society, need to pay attention to and develop ways to mitigate their deleterious effects.