University of Minnesota announced their S4A Development award in a press release. See the press release here.

The University of Minnesota team built a website where you can navigate their research plans, methods, and findings. Resource: See the website here. Project Page: Systems Alignment to Optimize Health Services for Youth Experiencing Homelessness

Presentation at AcademyHealth's 2023 Annual Research Meeting. Full abstract: Here Project: Using Whole Person Care to Coordinate Health and Social Services for Medicaid Populations during the COVID-19 Pandemic

A newly awarded grant will expand on efforts to evaluate a Medicaid program launched in 2016 by the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS): Whole Person Care (WPC). WPC aims to provide coordinated health care and social services for patients with complex needs. S4A investigators will...

Presenters: Melissa Jonson-Reid, PhD, Director of the PhD Program at Washington University in St. Louis' Brown School of Social Work Yolanda West, MM, PACT-STL Director >>View recording here.

Overview The research project was featured in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation blog in a post titled, “System and Services Research for Better Health” on April 18, 2017. The full post can be read here. Details Project: Financing and Service Delivery Integration for Mental Illness and Substance...

Overview Physician David Meltzer of the University of Chicago talked about the power of the doctor-patient relationship with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Meltzer, who also has a Ph.D. in economics, discussed a controlled experiment he has overseen to measure the importance of maintaining the...

Overview In an ongoing effort to address health issues that affect communities on the South Side and beyond, the University of Chicago Medicine is launched another season of the Community Health Focus Hour on WVON 1690 AM. Entering its eighth season, the show featured topics on diet and nutrition...

Overview You know that old saying about two things you can’t escape: death and taxes? These days it seems there should be a third: rising healthcare costs. Healthcare costs is something that hits everyone — from patients and doctors to hospitals and insurance companies. But what if those costs could...

Overview The three-year "Aligning Health and Social Systems to Expand Evidence-Based Home-Visiting" study will examine cross-sector collaboration between health care and social services with Nurse-Family Partnership ® (NFP) – a national evidence-based home-visiting program designed to improve the...