Community, Family, & Patient Engagement
States and health care organizations increasingly recognize that to improve health outcomes, they must partner with community members to understand their priorities and incorporate their perspectives into program design. CHCS is helping to identify and spread best practices for engaging community members — particularly people with lived experience and individuals with complex needs — and building meaningful partnerships between health care systems and the community.
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Engaging Youth with Special Health Care Needs and Families of Children with Special Health Care Needs: Recommendations for Medicaid Agencies
Highlights findings from a 50-state survey, and interviews with states and family-focused organizations, to understand the range of strategies used by Medicaid agencies to engage youth with special health care needs and their families to better support this population in meeting their goals for improved health and well-being.
