Five National Foundations Identify Promising Approaches to Caring for Patients

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Five national foundations—The John A. Hartford Foundation, the Peterson Center on Healthcare, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The SCAN Foundation, and The Commonwealth Fund—have launched an online resource to help health system leaders and insurers improve care for patients with complex medical and social needs.

Developed by experts at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, The Playbook: Better Care for People with Complex Needs offers insights about patients with complex needs, examples of successful approaches to care, guidance on making the business case for these models, and information about opportunities for policy and payment reform.

The Playbook was recently unveiled at the inaugural meeting of the National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs, led by Jeffrey Brenner, M.D., of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers.

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