Healthcare is ideally positioned to catalyze the critical reorganization necessary to improve social determinants of health to help both healthcare and education succeed. But improvement will require systems and thinking that are focused on the whole more than the parts being changed.
Read MoreAt the core of our social problems is the fact that our fragmented approach to the health and well-being of our communities is out of date. A more systematic approach is needed, one grounded in current system science and better aligned to how the complex adaptive network we call community works.
Read MoreCurand and ACT.md have partnered with the Fostering Hope Initiative (FHI) to improve care for at-risk families in Oregon’s Marion and Polk Counties. The partnership will improve the collective impact initiative’s network collaboration, facilitate performance-based pay.
Read MoreIf healthy, strong communities are what we want to see, we’ve been going about it all wrong. Learn about an Oregon group’s network approach to community health.
Read MoreDriven by increasing needs and tighter funding, nonprofit agencies are formalizing their collaborator networks into collective impact initiatives to improve lives, strengthen communities and reduce the cost of care. This is the first of three articles exploring how one Marion County, Ore., group is approaching community health – and what the healthcare industry can learn from it.
Read MoreOn Thursday, April 27, the Oregon Health Forum will host a panel discussion, “The Impact of Social Determinants on Health Outcomes,” in Portland. Curandi is a sponsor of the event, and I’m excited to see this important topic gaining attention here in Oregon and around the country.
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