Posts in Health & Human Services
A New Equation for Sustainable Health Solutions

By blending philanthropic donations, public grants, and private (sometimes concessionary) capital, Community Based Organizations (CBOs) can build a capital stack that enables program growth, retains mission fidelity, and aligns all parties around achievement of beneficial societal outcomes. In New Orleans, QV worked with partners to develop an innovative capital model to launch and sustain a Family Focused Recovery program.

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Impatient for Systems Change to Adequately Fund Health Related Social Needs? Us Too.

The time is ripe for community-based service providers to expand their partnerships, programs, and impact through a focus on the value they create for the community and individuals as opposed to the cost associated with service provision. This blog provides an overview of three health sector payment trends and the related opportunities for community-based service providers to enhance their impact by diversifying and expanding revenue.

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A Five-Step Approach to Ensure Water Infrastructure Funding Improves Health Outcomes, Community Resilience, and Affordability

The $55 billion in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding for water infrastructure presents an opportunity to demonstrate that these investments truly make human lives better. We recommend a a 5-step approach to effectively deploy BIL funds to communities that need it most and to demonstrate 3 basic outcomes: improved health; community resilience, and affordability.

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A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: Leveraging Outcomes-Based Financing to Build Sustainable Capacity to Address Social Determinants of Health

During the past several years, Quantified Ventures and Humana have developed a national partnership to build value-based payment models and innovative financing solutions to address social determinants of health (SDOH), advance health equity, and improve health outcomes in communities around the country. We recently caught up with Abbie Gilbert, Associate Director of the Office of Health Affairs & Advocacy at Humana, and Alison Rein, Vice President of Health and Human Services at Quantified Ventures, to learn more about the partnership.

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Approaches to Finance Medical Respite Outlined in New White Paper from Quantified Ventures and the National Institute for Medical Respite Care

This resource offers providers, state and federal Medicaid leadership, policymakers, and managed care organizations specific partnership strategies and demystifies the financial solutions that ensure continuity and quality of care for patients with long-term health and housing needs.

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To Address the Homeless Crisis, We Need to Adopt a Systems-Level Approach Centered on Outcomes

To provide an integrated continuum of services to effectively support individuals experiencing homeless and housing insecurity we must develop a systems-level approach that enables us to to both finance and deliver services like medical respite, legal aid, eviction diversion, shelter diversion, housing navigation, and wraparound services. To get there, policy change must be coupled with innovative payment mechanisms that incentivize coordinated approaches to homeless services.

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Big Problems Require Bold Solutions: Announcing a New Outcomes Fund to Support Mothers with Substance Use Disorder and Their Children

With a $5MM seed contribution from Humana, we are establishing the first-of-its-kind Family Focused Recovery (FFR) outcomes fund to sustainably scale an innovative Volunteers of America program model that serves mothers with substance use disorder and their children.

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Dispatch from the Field: Kicking off the Search for Healthy Housing Programs in Detroit

Last week took me to Detroit, Michigan – a city I’d not visited prior to work on this initiative- and which I’m learning to love. Like many formerly thriving manufacturing hubs, Detroit has faced well-documented financial decline and disinvestment, with significant population loss and adversity in the last several decades.

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