Addressing social needs in clinical settings: implementation and impact on health care utilization, costs, and integration of care

E Chuang, N Safaeinili - Annual Review of Public Health, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
In recent years, health care policy makers have focused increasingly on addressing social
drivers of health as a strategy for improving health and health equity. Impacts of social …

The role of routine and structured social needs data collection in improving care in US hospitals

C Richwine, V Patel, J Everson… - Journal of the American …, 2025‏ - academic.oup.com
Objectives To understand how health-related social needs (HRSN) data are collected at US
hospitals and implications for use. Materials and Methods Using 2023 nationally …

Trending in the right direction: critical access hospitals increased adoption of advanced electronic health record functions from 2018 to 2023

NC Apathy, AJ Holmgren, P Nong… - Journal of the …, 2025‏ - academic.oup.com
Objectives We analyzed trends in adoption of advanced patient engagement and clinical
data analytics functionalities among critical access hospitals (CAHs) and non-CAHs to …

[HTML][HTML] Structural Discrimination in Nonprofit Hospital Community Benefit Spending

A Hedquist, D Blumenthal, D Dai, J Phelan… - JAMA Health …, 2025‏ - jamanetwork.com
Importance Nonprofit hospitals receive substantial tax exemptions to provide a community
benefit. However, little is known about the distribution of community benefit spending (CBS) …

Physician Documentation of Social Determinants of Health: Results from Two National Surveys

BE Iott, V Patel, C Richwine - Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2024‏ - Springer
Abstract Objective We measured physicians'(1) perceived importance of having access to
social determinants of health (SDOH) data received from external providers in the electronic …

Social Determinants of Health and Cumulative Incidence of Mortality among US Adults without Major Chronic Diseases

SE Claudel, A Verma - Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2024‏ - Springer
Background Social determinants of health (SDOH) are associated with poor health
outcomes among individuals with prevalent diseases. Objective To quantify the association …

[PDF][PDF] NASEM Commissioned Paper: Uneven and Limited Progress Towards Racial and Ethnic Equity in Health Care and Outcomes

K Fiscella, MPHMR Sanders - 2023‏ - nap.nationalacademies.org
Executive Summary Background In 2003, the Institute of Medicine issued the report Unequal
Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care that documented …

Collaboration strategies for bridging health, behavioral health, and social services in California's Medi‐Cal Whole Person Care Pilot Program

E Chuang, R Ross, N Safaeinili… - Health Services …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Objective To identify collaboration strategies used to integrate health, behavioral health, and
social services for Medicaid members in California's Medi‐Cal Whole Person Care Pilot …

[HTML][HTML] Health Care Laws and Payment Policies

SJ Nass, FK Amankwah, JE DeVoe… - … Strategies to Achieve …, 2024‏ - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The legal and political landscape has changed significantly since Unequal Treatment. This
chapter explores the legal and political environment, including US health care and civil …

The Consequences of Regulating the Distribution of Earnings for Profitable Tax-Exempt Organizations

BD Cadman, E Patel - Available at SSRN 4297537, 2024‏ - papers.ssrn.com
Tax-exempt hospitals experience heightened agency problems due to limitations on the
ownership structure. We examine an additional consequence of organizing as tax exempt …