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Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability

We support the many steps that ASTP has taken to prioritize addressing health equity and SDOH. Thank you for the opportunity to provide comments on the Draft 2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan. We are providing comments on the proposal related to the following goals: promote health and wellness, enhance delivery and experience of care, accelerate research and innovation, and connect the health systems with health data. We appreciate the effort ONC has taken to incorporate social determinants of health and health equity into their draft plan, ensuring the goals and anticipated outcomes are equitable and effective for all people and populations.

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2024-10-14T17:58:53+00:00October 14th, 2024|Sign-On Letter|

Housing Alignment and Coordination of Critical and Effective Supportive Health Services (ACCESS) Act

Aligning for Health thanks you for introducing the Housing Alignment and Coordination of Critical and Effective Supportive Health Services (ACCESS) Act (H.R 7647/S2932), which would increase support for millions of low-income Americans on Medicaid by aligning housing and healthcare resources to address the interconnected challenges posed towards people experiencing homelessness, mental health issues, and substance use disorders.

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2024-10-14T17:54:33+00:00October 14th, 2024|Sign-On Letter|

Community Health Worker Access Act

Aligning for Health thanks you for introducing the Community Health worker Access ACT (S. 3892), which aims to expand the services that community health workers (CHWs) may receive Medicare reimbursement for to include preventive services and those that address social determinants of health and would encourage states to implement the option to reimburse for CHW services under Medicaid.

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2024-10-14T17:48:17+00:00October 14th, 2024|Sign-On Letter|

Addressing Whole Health in Medicare Advantage

Aligning for Health thanks you for introducing the Addressing Whole Health in Medicare Advantage Act (H.R. 5746), which would expand access to critically important supplemental benefits for a larger number of Medicare Advantage enrollees who need more robust services to effectively manage their health, including enrollees low-income enrollees and individuals with chronic conditions, at high-risk for hospitalizations, or who require intensive care coordination.

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2024-10-14T17:44:53+00:00October 14th, 2024|Sign-On Letter|

Utilizing National Data, Effectively Reforming Standards and Tools, to Address Negative Determinates of Health (UNDERSTAND) Act

Aligning for Health thanks you for introducing the Utilizing National Data, Effectively Reforming Standards
and Tools, to Address Negative Determinates of Health (UNDERSTAND) Act, which would improve the
collection of data related to the social determinants of health for Medicaid and Children’s Health
Insurance Program (CHIP) beneficiaries.

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2024-10-11T20:15:04+00:00October 11th, 2024|Uncategorized|

Food for Thought: A Fireside Chat on Food Access, Data, and Maternal Health

On August 22, AFH hosted an enlightening fireside chat on how US Hunger and Ascension collect health-related social needs data to address food insecurity and improve population health, with a special focus on supporting pregnant women.

You can view a recording of the webinar here.

2024-08-23T04:59:44+00:00August 7th, 2024|Events|

Social Determinants Updates | May 24, 2024

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Aligning for Health Social Determinants Updates. Please click the button below to see our newsletter which contains updates on how health care organizations are striving to meet health and social needs and invest in community health to improve health equity, notable links to research, data, and news related to health disparities and social determinants, and upcoming virtual events and opportunities.

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2024-05-24T18:15:37+00:00May 24th, 2024|SDoH Clips|

Social Determinants Updates | May 17, 2024

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Aligning for Health Social Determinants Updates. Please click the button below to see our newsletter which contains updates on how health care organizations are striving to meet health and social needs and invest in community health to improve health equity, notable links to research, data, and news related to health disparities and social determinants, and upcoming virtual events and opportunities.

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2024-05-17T19:45:14+00:00May 17th, 2024|SDoH Clips|

Social Determinants Updates | May 10, 2024

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Aligning for Health Social Determinants Updates. Please click the button below to see our newsletter which contains updates on how health care organizations are striving to meet health and social needs and invest in community health to improve health equity, notable links to research, data, and news related to health disparities and social determinants, and upcoming virtual events and opportunities.

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2024-05-10T20:45:30+00:00May 10th, 2024|SDoH Clips|

The Healthy Affordable Housing Act

Aligning for Health thanks you for introducing the Healthy Affordable Housing Act (HR 8186), which would direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to establish a grant and loan program that provides amounts to eligible entities to use to develop, create, or preserve qualifying affordable dwelling units in neighborhoods that are indicated by the Secretary to have shortages of affordable housing.

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2024-05-09T15:30:05+00:00May 9th, 2024|Sign-On Letter|
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