Explores the evidence behind harm reduction strategies and shares practical steps for adopting this approach in health care settings.

Jennifer Babcock of the Association of Community Affiliated Plans discusses state efforts to promote sustainable financing for Medicaid health plans to address health-related social needs and how these efforts can result in better outcomes for people with complex care needs.

Highlights a national network of primary care clinics that offer comprehensive health care and social supports to people released from incarceration.

Explores how to implement quality addiction care in general health care settings -- including primary, inpatient, and emergency care.

Describes how provider organizations in Rhode Island employ multidisciplinary teams, including community health workers and behavioral health clinicians, to collaborate with primary care practices in providing whole-person care.

The Playbook spoke to two individuals who helped develop the Patient-Centered Complex Care Research Agenda to learn more about how involving people with lived experience in research can help strengthen the complex care evidence base.

Reviews findings from a Playbook Collection on innovative addiction care models, including emerging evidence for these approaches and considerations for implementation.

Features commentary from Ben Miller, PsyD, past president at Well Being Trust, on the value of peer supports in mental health or addiction recovery.

Learn about program design considerations for an intensive care management program with promising evidence in this conversation with program leaders at Mass General Brigham and Commonwealth Care Alliance.

Features a conversation with Danetta Sloan, PhD, MSW, MA, assistant scientist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, to learn about the MIND at Home program and how dementia care coordination programs can better support Black caregivers and their families.

This Tradeoffs podcast episode explores ways to make palliative care more equitable and shares a caregiver's journey navigating a serious illness.

Features a conversation with Emilia De Marchis, MD, MAS, assistant professor at UCSF’s Department of Family and Community Medicine, who explores the findings from a report on the state of social needs screening in health care settings.

This blog post examines what factors are associated with successful partnerships between AAAs and health care entities.

Features a conversation about Illumination Foundation's approach to data analytics and how it can inform other organizations seeking to improve care for people experiencing homelessness.

Profiles Support and Services at Home, a model that is empowering older adults and people with disabilities to remain at home via in-home supports and services.

Our summer reading list can catch you up on the latest innovations in improving care for people with complex needs.

Profiles Yakima Neighborhood Health Services, a health center in Washington State, that launched a medical respite care program in 2010 after a focus group of patients experiencing homelessness expressed the need for a place to stay when they were sick.

Features a conversation with representatives of the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy about Medicare and Medicaid policy options for expanding access to home-based care for people with complex health needs.

Outlines perspectives from state Medicaid officials on the federal policies that have advanced Medicare-Medicaid integration, and areas where they believe additional federal policy actions are needed.

New research sheds light on the strategies Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs) use to create and maintain partnerships with health care entities.