Medical Care at Home Comes of Age
Provides an overview of home-based medical care models, the patients that they serve, and their robust evidence base.
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Aligning Social and Health Care Services: The Case of Community Care Connections
Demonstrates that a program assisting older adults with complex needs in navigating medical and social services may lower acute care utilization.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Core Competencies for Frontline Complex Care Providers
Describes core competencies that convey the essential knowledge, skills, and attitudes of complex care practitioners and teams to improve care for people with complex needs.
Brief/Report
A Systematic Review of Intensive Outpatient Care Programs for High-Need, High-Cost Patients
Demonstrates that intensive outpatient care programs show promise in reducing utilization and costs and improving patient outcomes for high-need, high-cost populations.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Practice Considerations for Trauma-Informed Care at End of Life
Applying principles of trauma-informed care for patients at end of life.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Evidence and Implementation Tools for Community Health Worker Programs: A Brief Resource Review
Shares a diverse set of recent resources for health care organizations interested in developing or expanding community health worker programs.
Blog
August 2020
How Community Health Workers and Promotores Can Support Individuals with Complex Needs amid COVID-19
Explored opportunities for health systems and plans to work with CHW/Ps to support high-need individuals, with a focus on addressing the long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Webinar
Effective Care Management by Next Generation Accountable Care Organizations
Complex care management program within Next Generation Accountable Care Organizations reduced cost and utilization for high-risk Medicare beneficiaries.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Improving Care for High-Need, High-Cost Patients: The View from a Community Health Worker and a Social Worker
A community health worker and social worker from CareMore Health share their perspective on the importance of their roles in lowering costs and improving outcomes for high-need patients.
Blog
July 2020
Effects of a Standardized Community Health Worker Intervention on Hospitalization Among Disadvantaged Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions: A Pooled Analysis of Three Clinical Trials
Using community health workers can reduce hospitalizations in high-risk patients.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Demonstrated Health Care Cost Savings for Women: Findings from a Community Health Worker Intervention Designed to Address Depression and Unmet Social Needs
CHW intervention reduced health care costs and utilization for low-income women with depression.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Effect of a Comprehensive Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Intervention in Persons With Serious Mental Illness: A Randomized Clinical Trial
A randomized clinical trial of an 18-month comprehensive intervention showed significant reductions in cardiovascular disease risk in adults with serious mental illness.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Evaluation of a National Care Coordination Program to Reduce Utilization Among High-Cost, High-Need Medicaid Beneficiaries with Diabetes
Care coordination program reduces utilization for some high-cost, high-need Medicaid beneficiaries with diabetes.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Embedding Social Workers In Veterans Health Administration Primary Care Teams Reduces Emergency Department Visits
Social workers on rural primary care teams may help decrease high-risk veterans’ acute care use.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Integrating Health And Human Services In California’s Whole Person Care Medicaid 1115 Waiver Demonstration
California’s Whole Person Care pilot can inform cross-sector initiatives to improve care for Medicaid enrollees with complex health and social needs.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Where is the Break-even Point for Community Health Workers? Using National Data and Local Programmatic Costs to Find the Break-even Point for a Metropolitan Community Health Worker Program
Community health worker programs can offset program costs through reduced utilization.
Peer-Reviewed Article
What’s Next? The Value of Evidence from the Camden Coalition and CareMore Health to Inform Complex Care Program Design
Highlighted lessons from two recent studies to help guide future program and measurement approaches for complex care management interventions.
Webinar
From Camden to Memphis: Recent Complex Care Randomized Controlled Trials Present a Call to Action
Describes key opportunities for the continued development of complex care best practices, gleaned from recent randomized controlled trials.
Blog
March 2020
Impact of Complex Care Management on Spending and Utilization for High-Need, High-Cost Medicaid Patients
Complex care management program for high-need, high-cost Medicaid patients demonstrates substantially lower spending and inpatient utilization.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Beyond the Camden Coalition’s Randomized Controlled Trial: Lessons for the Complex Care Field on Addressing Patient Needs
Features David Labby, MD, health strategy advisor for Health Share of Oregon, who provides insights on the recently released report on Camden Coalition's randomized controlled trial on the Camden Core Model.
Blog
February 2020