Business Acumen

Blog post about culture change in aging and disability community-based organizations (CBOs).

This fact sheet outlines strategies to help Medicaid stakeholders encourage partnerships between community-based organizations and health care organizations. States can provide: (1) financial support to build and sustain program capacity; (2) assistance in identifying metrics for evaluation; (3) incentives to providers to address social determinants of health; and (4) use of policy levers, including value-based contracts, managed care organization regulations, and state plan amendments.

This tool was designed for community-based organizations and health care organizations in existing partnerships. It provides a template to understand progress toward benchmarks characteristic of effective partnerships, identify areas for further development, and guide strategic conversation. This tool is meant to help partnering organizations work together more effectively and maximize their impact.

This is a resource about how to make stakeholder engagement meaningful for your company. It includes measuring the value of investing in engagement as a part of your stakeholder engagement strategy. Page 16 describes information to document during the engagement process in order to measure success.

This article outlines a three-phase stakeholder engagement process. Phase three is described as stakeholder engagement, which includes measuring and monitoring results. See the section on phase three for more information.

How to plan and hold effective community forums to gain insight into the needs of people with disabilities.

Presentation from the Aging and Disability Business Institute that provides practical strategies that can enable CBOs to establish positive working relationships with physician groups, hospitals and health plans.

This training from the Independent Living Research Utilization Program (ILRU) provides information on how you can gather feedback and input directly from consumers in your state to improve Independent Living programs. The presentation includes information about methods to gather and analyze data. Part 1 is about gathering information and part 2 is about implementing improvements.

This presentation from the Independent Living Research Utilization (ILRU) Program is about involving the community in decisions. It discusses why it is important to gather community input and describes methods for gathering information.

This report from Truven Health Analytics is a detailed example of how TEFT grantees obtained and maintained stakeholder involvement throughout the lifecycle of stakeholder engagement.