Category: Digging Deeper

Crosscutting themes surfaced from EHF’s learning and exploration of diabetes prevention interventions. Opportunities exist to increase screening to address health disparities in prediabetes and diabetes and for Texas Medicaid to explore funding models to include the CDC’s National Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) as a reimbursable service with the intention to reduce diabetes among beneficiaries.

Community paramedicine models of care provide a strategy that is working across the nation to address non-medical drivers of health. There is a growing body of evidence that programs like GLOW can address needs of the community that are beyond the capacity and reach of our traditional medicine model of care.

After co-funding a national CAPGI learning and feasibility planning initiative, EHF’s Shao-Chee Sim and C.J. Eisenbarth Hager share their reflections and key takeaways.

The Accountable Health Communities (AHC) Model was a 5-year Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center project (running May 2017 to April 2022) that tested whether systematically identifying and addressing the health-related social needs of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries’ has an impact on healthcare utilization.

The Sustainable Food Center took a team approach to applying it to their work—pulling in staff from community engagement, policy, food access, and evaluation. Their resulting report provides a comprehensive look at the practical and emotional choices and navigation points that people experience in meeting basic food needs.

Aetna and EHF joined forces to explore food security using the Positive Deviance Approach, which uses solution discovery to address complex social challenges. Instead of asking, “Where is food insecurity the worst and how do we fix it?”, solution discovery asks, “Are there people who consistently have healthy food even though they’re living in the same circumstances where others do not?”