Events

Through community health needs assessments, hospitals work with the community to identify unmet needs and then implement a plan to prioritize and address them. Nonprofit hospitals often fund some or most of this work using community benefit dollars. Join USAging’s Aging and Disability Business Institute for an overview of this process, why it is important and how community-based organizations can partner with hospitals to drive more equitable health outcomes. Speakers Julie Trocchio, Senior Director, Community Benefit and Continuing Care, Catholic Health Association of the United States Nancy Myers, Vice President, Leadership and System Innovation American Hospital Association Marisa Scala-Foley, Director, Aging and Disability Business Institute, USAging

In this webinar hosted by the Aging and Disability Business Institute, speakers will share the findings of a new report, Lifting the Veil: How Networks Form, Operate, Struggle and Succeed. This webinar will describe the experiences of Community Care Hubs and CBO network members on data management, payment and member relation and the diverse ways that networks of community-based organizations (CBOs) are operated and managed and identifies best practices for networks to consider. The report is based on interviews with 23 representatives of eight CBO networks—both Community Care Hubs/Network Lead Entities and CBO network members.

Each year, The John A. Hartford Foundation Business Innovation Award recognizes community-based organizations and networks that are improving health outcomes and quality of life for older adults and/or persons with disabilities through health care contracting. During this webinar, the 2023 recipients of The John A. Hartford Business Innovation Award, Western New York Integrated Care Collaborative, and the runners-up, Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging and Region IV Area Agency on Aging in Michigan, will share information about their award-winning innovative programs. Attendees will learn their strategies for developing their contracts and partnerships, their challenges and the outcomes they achieved.

Contracting to Align Health and Social Care Ecosystems: A Webinar Series Sharing Leading Practices Join the Partnership to Align Social Care, the Aging and Disability Business Institute, and Camden Coalition for a webinar series offering a deep dive into leading contracting practices to effectively and efficiently address HRSNs. Each webinar in the series will focus on the essential elements of contracting between health care and community partners and feature leading practices from the field. Each event will also highlight key findings from a four-part toolkit, Healthcare Guide to Contracting with CBOs, developed with extensive input from CBOs, health plans, and health systems. While these resources were developed for a healthcare audience, CBOs, CCHs, and other health and social care ecosystem stakeholders will benefit from understanding how healthcare organizations approach the contracting process. Webinars in this series include: Designing the Payment Structure: A Health Plan’s Guide to Paying CBOs & CCHs for Social Care - October 10, 2023 @ 2:00-3:00 p.m. ET Defining Core Activities: Developing an Effective Scope of Work For Contracted Partners - November 14, 2023 @ Noon-1:00 p.m. ET Operationalizing Contracts: Improving Contracting Implementation and Collaboration - December 12, 2023 @ 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET Registrants will receive access to all three webinars. All registrants will receive the recordings and follow-up resources.

Join USAging’s Aging and Disability Business Institute for a new webinar series: Data, Billing and Coding: What CBOs Need to Know. Data, Billing and Coding: What CBOs Need to Know Part One: New CMS Rules on Health-Related Social Needs Screening November 13, 2023 3:00-4:00 PM ET The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) new health related social needs (HRSN) screening—at the hospital inpatient level and with physicians—as well as social determinants of health (SDOH) data and technology standards are providing Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs), and community-based organizations (CBOs) with opportunities to expand partnerships with health clinicians to better serve clients and caregivers. The first webinar in this series will focus on new CMS reporting measures related to screening for health-related social needs that will impact (and likely increase) referrals for assessments and services from hospitals and health systems to social care organizations. Speakers will discuss what the rules mean for AAAs, CBOs and networks, how they create new opportunities for contracting with health care providers and payers, and what CBOs need to know to work with hospitals and health systems. This webinar series will provide information about the new opportunities to partner with health clinicians, and the related data, information exchange and related billing/payment models being advanced by CMS. Look out for other webinars in our series that will cover topics such as: An in-depth look at the hospital inpatient health-related social needs screening rule Physician referral for CBO assessment and workflows Data standards and information exchange Who your CBO needs to work with on data and interoperability

Contracting to Align Health and Social Care Ecosystems: A Webinar Series Sharing Leading Practices Join the Partnership to Align Social Care, the Aging and Disability Business Institute, and Camden Coalition for a webinar series offering a deep dive into leading contracting practices to effectively and efficiently address HRSNs. Each webinar in the series will focus on the essential elements of contracting between health care and community partners and feature leading practices from the field. Each event will also highlight key findings from a four-part toolkit, Healthcare Guide to Contracting with CBOs, developed with extensive input from CBOs, health plans, and health systems. While these resources were developed for a healthcare audience, CBOs, CCHs, and other health and social care ecosystem stakeholders will benefit from understanding how healthcare organizations approach the contracting process. Webinars in this series include: Designing the Payment Structure: A Health Plan’s Guide to Paying CBOs & CCHs for Social Care - October 10, 2023 @ 2:00-3:00 p.m. ET Defining Core Activities: Developing an Effective Scope of Work For Contracted Partners - November 14, 2023 @ Noon-1:00 p.m. ET Operationalizing Contracts: Improving Contracting Implementation and Collaboration - December 12, 2023 @ 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET Registrants will receive access to all three webinars. All registrants will receive the recordings and follow-up resources.

The Administration for Community Living (ACL), in collaboration with the Center of Excellence to Align Health and Social Care (powered by USAging’s Aging and Disability Business Institute), invites community-based organizations serving as community care hubs (CCHs) or interested in learning more about the community care hub model to participate in an upcoming four-part Community Care Hub 101 Learning Series. The series will take place on four Thursdays in mid-November through December 2023. A community care hub (CCH) is a community-focused entity that organizes and supports a network of community-based organizations providing services to address health-related social needs. It centralizes administrative functions and operational infrastructure, including but not limited to, contracting with health care organizations, payment operations, management of referrals, service delivery fidelity and compliance, technology, information security, data collection, and reporting. Each webinar will focus on the foundational elements of serving as a community care hub. The webinars will showcase examples from leading community care hubs as well as resources available to support community-based organizations in forming, operationalizing, and launching a hub in their community. Register today for the Community Care Hub 101 Learning Series. The series will take place on four Thursdays in mid-November through December 2023. Introduction to Community Care Hubs: November 16, 2023, from 2:00-3:30 PM ET Community Care Hubs Core Functions: November 30, 2023, from 2:00-3:30 PM ET Contracting Opportunities to Address Health-Related Social Needs: December 7, 2023, from 2:00-3:30 PM ET Building the Community Care Hub Business Case: December 14, 2023, from 2:00-3:30 PM ET Registrants will receive access to all four webinars. All registrants will receive a copy of the webinar slides and follow-up resources. The webinars will be auto-captioned on Zoom.

The Administration for Community Living (ACL), in collaboration with the Center of Excellence to Align Health and Social Care (powered by USAging’s Aging and Disability Business Institute), invites community-based organizations serving as community care hubs (CCHs) or interested in learning more about the community care hub model to participate in an upcoming four-part Community Care Hub 101 Learning Series. The series will take place on four Thursdays in mid-November through December 2023. A community care hub (CCH) is a community-focused entity that organizes and supports a network of community-based organizations providing services to address health-related social needs. It centralizes administrative functions and operational infrastructure, including but not limited to, contracting with health care organizations, payment operations, management of referrals, service delivery fidelity and compliance, technology, information security, data collection, and reporting. Each webinar will focus on the foundational elements of serving as a community care hub. The webinars will showcase examples from leading community care hubs as well as resources available to support community-based organizations in forming, operationalizing, and launching a hub in their community. Register today for the Community Care Hub 101 Learning Series. The series will take place on four Thursdays in mid-November through December 2023. Introduction to Community Care Hubs: November 16, 2023, from 2:00-3:30 PM ET Community Care Hubs Core Functions: November 30, 2023, from 2:00-3:30 PM ET Contracting Opportunities to Address Health-Related Social Needs: December 7, 2023, from 2:00-3:30 PM ET Building the Community Care Hub Business Case: December 14, 2023, from 2:00-3:30 PM ET Registrants will receive access to all four webinars. All registrants will receive a copy of the webinar slides and follow-up resources. The webinars will be auto-captioned on Zoom.