Partnerships

This toolkit provides guidance for creating a partnership among different organizations to address a common goal.

In this webinar, an aging network business development expert walks through the importance of cost and price-modeling, detailing the key steps and definitions in the process, and explains how correct pricing strategies can help CBOs achieve and advance their core mission while maintaining viability and even growth.

This is an abstract topic page on Community Partnerships from AAHD's Health Promotion Resource Center.

Training from the Independent Living Research Utilization (ILRU) Program about strategic partnerships and relationships with other disability organizations.

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 readiness assessment tool guides your organization through the process of successfully preparing for, securing and maintaining partnerships with the health care sector, allowing your organization to assess the current readiness of your organization, while also providing a framework and resources for navigating the process successfully. Your organization will benefit most by completing this assessment tool as an organization, rather than individually.

The Eastern Virginia Care Transitions Partnership (EVCTP) is a largescale partnership including Bay Aging and four other Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs), four health systems, three managed care organizations (MCOs), and other health care and human service providers. This case study describes several topics including the service delivery model, information sharing and reporting, shared governance, success factors, and challenges.

This brief from the Integrated Care Resource Center discusses opportunities for Medicaid agencies to partner with State Health Insurance Programs (SHIPs). Every state has a SHIP that is responsible for providing counseling and assistance for people with Medicare and their families. This brief highlights approaches used by Arizona, Massachusetts, and Texas, where SHIPs and Medicaid agencies have worked together to educate Medicare-Medicaid enrollees on new care delivery options.

The Partnership for Healthy Outcomes, a project of the Center for Health Care Strategies, Nonprofit Finance Fund, and the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities, has published a report that captures and analyzes lessons from health care organizations and community-based organizations (CBOs) that are partnering to address both the clinical and the social determinants of health. This report is based on a survey of more than 200 health care related partnerships.

The purpose of this tip sheet is to provide promising practices to help agencies increase the number of Medicare Savings Program and Low Income Subsidy applications.