Rhode to Equity
Description
Rhode to Equity builds clinical-community linkages to advance health equity using the Pathways to Population Health Equity guide to organize efforts. These geographic health equity teams include Health Equity Zones, community residents, community organizations, primary care clinics, accountable entities, community health workers, and community care teams. Teams work together to address both immediate mental, physical, social and spiritual well-being needs along with upstream community conditions and root causes.
Motivation
To build partnerships needed to address upstream vital conditions of health and well-being and root causes.
Who Came Together?
Rhode Island Department of Health
Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services
Care Transformation Collaborative of Rhode Island
Well-being and Equity in the World
The Role of WE in the World
Technical assistance, accompaniment to support community partnerships to advance health equity Framework developers and implementers
What Is Changing?
Relationships across clinical and community contexts
Focus on underlying social needs, community conditions and root causes
Community health worker integration
Metrics
How We Are Doing It
Approach & Building Blocks
Health equity team formation
Learning collaborative
Stories to system change
