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Bridging Health and Healthcare to Improve Population Health
As part of the RWJF's vision to build a Culture of Health, we have developed a new portfolio that seeks to “foster alignment among health care, public health, and other community systems to address the multiple determinants of health and improve the health of communities.” We are building our transition year programming in three areas that include some intentional overlap: cultivating a shared vision of a connected/collaborative or “bridged” health system; using levers and incentives to build demand for bridging; and supporting and creating innovative programs to foster bridging. We developed three funding authorizations to operationalize the lions’ share of programming in these areas.
The first authorization will focus on discovering, evaluating and disseminating innovative approaches to bridging public health, health care, and other sectors in a variety of state, regional, and community sites in order to help us, and the field, better understand the opportunities and strategic points of investment in this space. The portfolio will invest in innovations that influence the multiple determinants of health, explicitly address reducing disparities in health, and provide opportunities for collaboration across the Foundation’s teams and portfolios.
Our other two authorizations target specific levers and incentives for building greater connectivity between health and health care. The first of these will focus on strengthening and connecting data and information systems, tools and capabilities that support cross-sector ties and enable community health improvement. The second will build on the Foundation’s previous work related to community benefit requirements for non-profit hospitals. These requirements are already serving as a catalyst for bridging in communities around the country. We plan to evaluate, elevate and disseminate promising approaches to community benefit from a diverse set of communities and continue to collaborate with a variety of national partners, such as the AHA’s Association for Community Health Improvement, the CDC, Catholic Health Initiatives and others to further develop resources and best practices in community benefit.
Learning Areas:
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public healthLearning Objectives:
Discuss the efforts and strategies used by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to bridge the efforts of health adn healthcare.
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Paul Kuehnert is a regsitered nurse and pediatric nurse practioner that has practiced for more than 35 years in a variety of public health staff and leadership roles, as well as clinical provider roles, in both governmental and non-governmental health agencides. Paul is currently the Director fothe Bridging Heatlh and Healthcare Portfolio at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation's largest health-focused philanthropy.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
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