Blog
September 12, 2018
Scaling Health from Healthy Housing
Healthy housing could be the difference between a family being stuck in an inter-generational cycle of poverty and having the opportunity of economic mobility. For insurance plans with the right contracting arrangements and the right involvement from the Medicaid administration, improvements in housing quality can save money by both preventing hospitalizations and investing in the overall health of a population. In 2014, the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI) began work to secure sustainable funding for healthy homes interventions, using Pay for Success as an innovative financing arrangement.
Read MoreJune 25, 2018
Health Literacy: The Key to Results in Health Care
Health literacy in the United States is abysmally low, and the connection between health literacy and health outcomes is a strong one. We know that more is better- the more health literate our patients are, the better their health outcomes will be.
Read MoreJune 5, 2018
Investing in More Effective Problem-Solving
A year ago today, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Nonprofit Finance Fund co-hosted an event in New York City to launch a new book, What Matters: Investing in Results to Build Strong, Vibrant Communities. Much has happened around outcomes-based funding in the year since this launch and it is worthwhile and important to review the event content with the hope of maintaining progress for outcomes-based funding mechanisms in the future. This blog post is a reflection on the key take-aways from the event and shares The Investment Integration Project’s (TIIP’s) reflections on how long-term institutional investors might incorporate ideas from the book into their adoption of systems-level considerations.
October 17, 2017
Food Is Medicine: Innovative Partnerships in Medically Tailored Meals
God’s Love We Deliver (God’s Love) is a provider of medically tailored home-delivered meals and nutrition counseling to severely ill men, women and children in the New York City metropolitan area. God’s Love provides 1.7 million meals annually to 7,000 individuals living with more than 200 individual diagnoses. Meals are medically tailored for each client by Registered Dietitian Nutritionists according to evidence-based nutrition practice guidelines to address medical diagnoses, symptoms, allergies, medication management, and side effects to ensure the best possible nutrition-related health outcomes.
Read MoreOctober 2, 2017
ROI for Population Health: Evidencing a Double Standard
Return on Investment (ROI) has proven that investments in population health interventions make measurable improvements to people's lives- much more so than acute health care- though we continue to under-invest in those interventions.
Read MoreMay 31, 2017
Grant Makers, Put Results First in Deciding How to Give
Making the shift from specific activities to overall results requires a new contract between those who deliver social services and those who pay for them, one in which taxpayers and philanthropists will know they can expect to see the results.
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