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Partnerships Model

Partnerships between different healthcare organizations can improve care coordination, care transitions, and patient outcomes. Programs can arrange partnerships to achieve care coordination goals by sharing resources and data, making referrals for their patients, enhancing communication, and exchanging best practices. Using a systems approach for these activities may increase quality of care delivered to patients.

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Forging Community Partnerships to Improve Health Care
Document
This issue brief examines strategies that are being used by four managed care organizations (MCOs) to invest in community partnerships to change the way care is provided to vulnerable populations.
Organization(s): Health Management Associates, The Commonwealth Fund
Date: 4/2013

Strategies for Building Community-Public Health Partnerships
Publication
This publication summarizes findings and lessons learned for successful partnerships, as identified from an evaluation of the Partnership for the Public’s Health (PPH) initiative to build partnerships between communities and public health agencies in California.
Organization(s): Partnership for the Public’s Health
Date: 12/2007