"Because There's Experts That Do That": Lessons Learned by Health Care Organizations When Partnering with Community Organizations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health care organizations' partnerships with community-based organizations (CBOs) are increasingly viewed as key to improving patients' social needs (e.g., food, housing, and economic insecurity). Despite this reliance on CBOs, little research explores the relationships that health care organizations develop with CBOs.

Objective

Understand how health care organizations interact with CBOs to implement social care.

Design

Thirty-three semi-structured telephone interviews collected April-July 2019.

Participants

Administrators at 29 diverse health care organizations with active programming related to improving patients' social needs. Organizations ranged from multi-state systems to single-site practices and differed in structure, size, ownership, and geo

SUBMITTER: Beidler LB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10682338 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature