Community Health Solutions publishes ElevatingHealth.net as a free source of ideas for improving health and health care in your community. Our purpose is not to cover every idea under the sun, but to show a cross-section of emerging approaches for improving health and health care at the community level. We look forward to collaborating with you to make ElevatingHealth.net your first stop for finding and sharing ideas for community health improvement.
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- The Health Asset Model
- Learning to Be Great
- How to Demonstrate the Value of Your Organization
- Leading Change by Design
- Five Strategic Keys for Effective Community Collaboration
- Infographic – Five Questions to Ask Community Members about Community Health Improvement
- Infographic – The Five Most Important Questions You Can Ask About Your Organization
- Impact of the “Weekend Effect” for Hospital Discharges on Readmissions After Elective Colectomy.
- Identifying Risk Factors for 30-Day Readmissions After Triple Arthrodesis Surgery.
- Prediction of ICU Readmissions Using Data at Patient Discharge.
- HF Mortality Trends Under Medicare Readmissions Reduction Program at Penalized and Nonpenalized Hospitals.
- Fragmented Care is Prevalent among Inflammatory Bowel Disease Readmissions and is Associated with Worse Outcomes.
- Effect of β-Lactam Plus Macrolide Versus Fluoroquinolone on 30-Day Readmissions for Community-Acquired Pneumonia.
- Medical-surgical readmissions in patients with co-occurring serious mental illness: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Curing Medicare’s hospital readmissions penalties.
- Case Study 1: PAs Central to Reducing Hospital Readmissions.
- PA Home Visits Sharply Reduce Hospital Readmissions After Heart Surgery.
- Utilizing Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs) in Nonprofit Hospitals to Guide Population-Centered Outcomes Research for Pediatric Patients: New Recommendations for CHNA Reporting.
- Nonprofit hospitals’ approach to community health needs assessment.
- Community health needs assessment and action planning in seven Dominican bateyes.
- Identifying health conditions, priorities, and relevant multilevel health promotion intervention strategies in African American churches: A faith community health needs assessment.
- Community health needs assessment: a nurses’ global health project in Vietnam.
- An Innovative Partnership to Improve Student Health: Response to a Community Health Needs Assessment.
- Trialing the Community-Based Collaborative Action Research Framework: Supporting Rural Health Through a Community Health Needs Assessment.
- Local Health Departments’ Role in Nonprofit Hospitals’ Community Health Needs Assessment.
- Community Health Needs Assessment as a Teaching Tool in a Family Medicine Residency.
- Community Health Needs Assessment: Potential for Population Health Improvement.
- Evaluating an insurer-based health coaching program: Impact of program engagement on healthcare utilization and weight loss.
- Keeping Pace with the Expanding Role of Health Coaching.
- Health Coaching to Enhance Psychological Well-being Among Veterans with Suicidal Ideation: a Pilot Study.
- Erickson health coaching: An innovative approach for weight management in obese patients with obstructive sleep apnoea?
- Clinical Effectiveness of Lifestyle Health Coaching: Case Study of an Evidence-Based Program.
- Primary Care-Based Health Coaching for the Management of Prediabetes.
- Design of a randomized controlled trial comparing a mobile phone-based hypertension health coaching application to home blood pressure monitoring alone: The Smart Hypertension Control Study.
- Randomized Controlled Trial of Health Coaching for Vulnerable Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
- Cost-Effectiveness of Health Coaching and Financial Incentives to Promote Physical Activity after Total Knee Replacement.
- Perceptions of Health Coaching for Behavior Change Among Medicaid and Commercially Insured Adults.
- The Role of Extremes in Interpregnancy Interval in Women at Increased Risk for Adverse Obstetric Outcomes Due to Health Disparities: A Literature Review.
- The Evidence Base for Social Determinants of Health as Risk Factors for Infant Mortality: A Systematic Scoping Review.
- Understanding Disparities in Access to Genomic Medicine: Proceedings of a Workshop
- Analysis of the relationship between life expectancy and social determinants in a north-eastern region of Brazil, 2010-2017.
- Completion Rate and Reporting of Mandatory Pediatric Postmarketing Studies Under the US Pediatric Research Equity Act.
- Neighborhood differences in alternative tobacco product availability and advertising in New York City: Implications for health disparities.
- Ambient volatile organic compounds and racial/ethnic disparities in gestational diabetes mellitus: Are Asian/Pacific Islander women at greater risk?
- Cancer Care Chronicles-Social Media and Gender Equity in Oncology.
- Disparities in the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer among people with disabilities.
- Innovative Approaches to Address Social Determinants of Health Among Adolescents and Young Adults.
- Impact of Physician-Pharmacist Covisits at a Primary Care Clinic in Patients With Uncontrolled Diabetes.
- Patients’ perception of community pharmacists as healthcare providers and willingness to participate in pharmacist services: a pilot study.
- Linking the patient-centered medical home to community pharmacy via an innovative pharmacist care model.
- Care Continuity in a Patient-Centered Medical Home Setting
- A climate for evidence-based practice implementation in the patient-centred medical home.
- Effect on VA Patient Satisfaction of Provider’s Use of an Integrated Viewer of Multiple Electronic Health Records.
- Patient-Centered Medical Home Implementation in Indian Health Service Direct Service Facilities.
- Correlates of Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition in School-Based Health Centers.
- Patient-centered medical home care access among adults with chronic conditions: National Estimates from the medical expenditure panel survey.
- Rationale and development of a randomized pragmatic trial to improve diabetes outcomes in patient-centered medical homes serving rural patients.
- Beyond the reminder: The next steps in pharmacist-driven, mHealth patient engagement.
- Home-Based Kidney Care, Patient Activation, and Risk Factors for CKD Progression in Zuni Indians: A Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial.
- Patient engagement in pediatric concussion research.
- Patient engagement in a trial testing a new strategy of care for acute heart failure.
- Patient engagement in research related to accelerated surgical care and treatment for hip fracture.
- Multi-Method Patient-Engagement Approach: A Case Example from a PCORI-Funded Training Project.
- Patient Engagement in Otolaryngology.
- Patient Engagement In Health Care Safety: An Overview Of Mixed-Quality Evidence.
- How do healthcare professionals working in accountable care organisations understand patient activation and engagement? Qualitative interviews across two time points.
- Development and pre-testing of the Patient Engagement In Research Scale (PEIRS) to assess the quality of engagement from a patient perspective.
- Applying Social Network Analysis to Evaluate Implementation of a Multisector Population Health Collaborative That Uses a Bridging Hub Organization.
- Care Coordination and Population Health Management Strategies and Challenges in a Behavioral Health Home Model.
- Going Beyond Clinical Care to Reduce Health Care Spending: Findings From the J-CHiP Community-based Population Health Management Program Evaluation: Erratum.
- Codesign of the Population Health Information Management System to measure reach and practice change of childhood obesity programs.
- Population Health Adaptation Approaches to the Increasing Severity and Frequency of Weather-Related Disasters Resulting From our Changing Climate: A Literature Review and Application to Charleston, South Carolina.
- The Role of Care Management as a Population Health Intervention to Address Disparities and Control Hypertension: A Quasi-Experimental Observational Study.
- Teaching population health to medical students through the community health assessment.
- Addressing Family Planning Access Barriers Using an Integrated Population Health Environment Approach in Rural Uganda.
- Designing a Community-Based Population Health Model.
- Evaluation of the Impact of an Innovative Immunization Practice Model Designed to Improve Population Health: Results of the Project IMPACT Immunizations Pilot.
