Community Catalyst believes everyone deserves high-quality health care that fully serves their needs and helps them lead healthier lives. We are working to transform our health system to become one that is truly people-centered.
Relationship building is at the heart of organizing. In particular, building relationships with people on the ground who care about their communities and are impacted by issues is essential to making meaningful change. [ Blog ]
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, home health workers find themselves in an incredibly difficult bind – how can they deliver necessary services while keeping themselves and their clients safe? [ Blog ]
Despite the necessity and cost effectiveness of NEMT, non-emergency medical transportation, the benefit is under threat on multiple fronts. [ Blog ]
The third pillar of this year's Older Americans Month theme, “Connect, Create, Contribute,” holds particular resonance for us at the Center, where we work to elevate the voices of older adult consumers in health delivery reform advocacy. [ Blog ]
At the Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation, we’ve long been champions of the important role primary care plays in improving health outcomes, lowering health care costs and achieving health equity. [ Blog ]
The Center launches Consumer Voices for Engagement 2.0 (CVI 2.0), funding seven state-based organizations for two years to engage and organize consumers with complex needs to advocate for policies and programs that address social determinants of health. [ Press Release ]
The emergence of value-based models of care has brought increased attention to improving coordination and quality while reducing unnecessary procedures and increasing attention to quality of life and patient-centered, individualized care. [ Blog ]
At a meeting of Community Advisory Council members engaged with Orgeon's Coordinated Care Programs (CCOs),many lessons on how the potential of these bodies can be realized through effective implementation. [ Blog ]
Ann Hwang, MD, director of the Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation is quoted in a Fierce Healthcare article about a POLITICO Live panel session on innovation she participated in on Jan 16, 2019. [ News Clip ]
Lori Simon-Rusinowitz, MPH, Ph.D. What can a daughter do when her mother's reality – a nursing home with no person-centered care in sight – presents a stark contrast to her own work devoted to making person-centered services available to a... [ Blog ]
Last Wednesday, the Center was honored to host “The Dual Imperative: What’s Next for Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees” in Washington, D.C. to discuss improving care for the 11 million people enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid. This pop... [ Blog ]
“Public Expects Gridlock” is the headline to a summary of survey findings about what voters expect out of Washington post-midterm elections. The Democrats control the House, Republicans control the Senate and not much of anything will get d... [ Blog ]
Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation comments on ACL’s Strategic Framework for Action: State Opportunities to Integrate Services and Improve Outcomes for Older Adults and People with Disabilities. [ Comment Letter ]
This document lays out 10 principles to guide efforts in the health care sphere to address the social and economic determinants of poor health in ways that elevate and support patients and communities -- critical to achieving health justice. [ Publication ]
Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation comments on Medicaid Quality Measure – New Medicaid Beneficiaries Using HCBS First. [ Comment Letter ]
Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation comments to CMMI in response to RFI on direct provider contracting. [ Comment Letter ]
Community Catalyst comments in response to the stakeholder letter regarding efforts by a bipartisan group of senators lead by Senator Cassidy to increase health care price and information transparency. [ Comment Letter ]
Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation Comments on Development, Implementation, and Maintenance of Quality Measures for the Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) [ Comment Letter ]
Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation comments in response to the request for information on the proposed new direction for the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation [ Comment Letter ]
A new report released jointly by the Center and LeadingAge discusses factors that would reduce states’ abilities to provide LTSS in a per capita cap system and the impacts of such a system on the labor force that provides home-based care. [ Publication ]
This report jointly produced by the Center and the SNP Alliance examines how two special needs health plans are responding to social determinants of health to improve health outcomes for people who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. [ Publication ]
The Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation has created a toolkit to help advocates play a central role in the design, implementation and oversight of Medicaid ACO programs, ito achieve their potential for advancing person-centered care. [ Resource ]
This resource provides a summary of three evaluation briefs on the Financial Alignment Demonstrations recently published by the Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office. [ Publication ]
Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation and Children's Health Initiative joint comment letter on the Request for Information (RFI) on Pediatric Alternative Payment Model Concepts. [ Comment Letter ]
Community Catalyst has been awarded a five-year $14.8 million legacy grant by The Atlantic Philanthropies to develop and promote a consumer agenda around “health system transformation,” fundamental changes reshaping health care delivery in America.
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