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Students enjoy the game room at Benjamin O. Davis Middle School in Compton, Calif., on Feb. 2, 2023. California is investing more than $4 billion to revamp its approach to youth mental health, ensuring that services are community-based, equitable, and inclusive of many different types of providers. Photo: Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images

Improving Health Care Quality

Strengthening Home- and Community-Based Services to Stabilize Young People with Behavioral Health Problems and Keep Them Out of Hospitals

Blog / Mar 08, 2023

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones holds 7-month-old Jaylen Taylor in the Walnut Park East neighborhood of St. Louis on July 21, 2021. The local health coalition FLOURISH St. Louis brings together representatives of the city and county health departments, local health systems and health plans, and community-based organizations to reduce Black infant mortality rates through better support for families. Photo: Nick Schnelle for Washington Post via Getty Images

Improving Health Care Quality

Restoring Trust in Public Health

Publication / Feb 14, 2023

Community health center nurse Karen Lagarda talks with Rosa Romero about her lab results at a Luminis Health program in College Park, Md., on Nov. 29, 2022. In 2021, community health centers served nearly 30.2 million patients. Photo: Michael Robinson Chavez/ Washington Post via Getty Images

Advancing Health Equity

Strengthening Marketplace Network Rules for Essential Community Providers Is a Matter of Health Equity

Blog / Jan 25, 2023

A pediatric doctor performs an exam

Improving Health Care Quality

Paying Differently for Primary Care for Better Health and Greater Equity

Blog / Sep 12, 2022

They’re Not Going to Say They’re Hungry’: Designing Health Care for Trauma Survivors

Advancing Health Equity

“They’re Not Going to Say They’re Hungry”: Designing Health Care for Trauma Survivors

Podcast / May 21, 2021

Volunteer eye doctor holds up three fingers while checking a little girl's vision. The girl and her mom are visiting a free clinic.

Improving Health Care Quality

Beyond the Survey: Engaging Patients and Communities as Partners

Publication / Apr 08, 2021

Doulas demonstrating how a birthing person can be supported while in hte bathroom

Advancing Health Equity

Community-Based Models to Improve Maternal Health Outcomes and Promote Health Equity

Issue Briefs / Mar 04, 2021

Empty hospital corridor in Wellington, Kansas

Achieving Universal Coverage

Stranded: Rural Hospitals in Crisis

Video / Feb 23, 2021

Medicaid community based care

Controlling Health Care Costs

COVID-19 Relief Needed to Keep Medicaid Community-Based Providers Afloat

Blog / Oct 05, 2020

homeless shelter during COVID-19

Improving Health Care Quality

Essential Social Services Are Struggling to Survive the COVID-19 Crisis

Blog / Jun 01, 2020

How Community Health Workers Put Patients in Charge of Their Health

Improving Health Care Quality

How Community Health Workers Put Patients in Charge of Their Health

Podcast / May 29, 2020

New Mexico Community Health Workers

Improving Health Care Quality

How New Mexico’s Community Health Workers Are Helping to Meet Patients’ Needs

Case Study / Feb 19, 2020

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