Elizabeth Bromley1, Chantal Figueroa2, Enrico G Castillo3, Farbod Kadkhoda2, Bowen Chung4, Jeanne Miranda2, Kumar Menon5, Yolanda Whittington5, Felica Jones6, Kenneth B Wells7, Sheryl H Kataoka8. 1. Center for Health Services and Society, University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences; Desert Pacific MIRECC Health Services Unit, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA. 2. Center for Health Services and Society, University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, Los Angeles, CA. 3. University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, Los Angeles, CA. 4. Center for Health Services and Society, University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences; RAND Corporation; Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute; Healthy African American Families II, Los Angeles, CA. 5. Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, Los Angeles, CA. 6. Healthy African American Families II, Los Angeles, CA. 7. Center for Health Services and Society, University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences; RAND Corporation; University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA. 8. Center for Health Services and Society, University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences; UCLA Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Los Angeles, CA.
Abstract
Objective: To understand potential for multi-sector partnerships among community-based organizations and publicly funded health systems to implement health improvement strategies that advance health equity. Design: Key stakeholder interviewing during HNI planning and early implementation to elicit perceptions of multi-sector partnerships and innovations required for partnerships to achieve system transformation and health equity. Setting: In 2014, the Los Angeles County (LAC) Board of Supervisors approved the Health Neighborhood Initiative (HNI) that aims to: 1) improve coordination of health services for behavioral health clients across safety-net providers within neighborhoods; and 2) address social determinants of health through community-driven, public agency sponsored partnerships with community-based organizations. Participants: Twenty-five semi-structured interviews with 49 leaders from LAC health systems, community-based organizations; and payers. Results: Leaders perceived partnerships within and beyond health systems as transformative in their potential to: improve access, value, and efficiency; align priorities of safety-net systems and communities; and harness the power of communities to impact health. Leaders identified trust as critical to success in partnerships but named lack of time for relationship-building, limitations in service capacity, and questions about sustainability as barriers to trust-building. Leaders described the need for procedural innovations within health systems that would support equitable partnerships including innovations that would increase transparency and normalize information exchange, share agenda-setting and decision-making power with partners, and institutionalize partnering through training and accountability. Conclusions: Leaders described improving procedural justice in public agencies' relationships with communities as key to effective partnering for health equity.
Objective: To understand potential for multi-sector partnerships among community-based organizations and publicly funded health systems to implement health improvement strategies that advance health equity. Design: Key stakeholder interviewing during HNI planning and early implementation to elicit perceptions of multi-sector partnerships and innovations required for partnerships to achieve system transformation and health equity. Setting: In 2014, the Los Angeles County (LAC) Board of Supervisors approved the Health Neighborhood Initiative (HNI) that aims to: 1) improve coordination of health services for behavioral health clients across safety-net providers within neighborhoods; and 2) address social determinants of health through community-driven, public agency sponsored partnerships with community-based organizations. Participants: Twenty-five semi-structured interviews with 49 leaders from LAC health systems, community-based organizations; and payers. Results: Leaders perceived partnerships within and beyond health systems as transformative in their potential to: improve access, value, and efficiency; align priorities of safety-net systems and communities; and harness the power of communities to impact health. Leaders identified trust as critical to success in partnerships but named lack of time for relationship-building, limitations in service capacity, and questions about sustainability as barriers to trust-building. Leaders described the need for procedural innovations within health systems that would support equitable partnerships including innovations that would increase transparency and normalize information exchange, share agenda-setting and decision-making power with partners, and institutionalize partnering through training and accountability. Conclusions: Leaders described improving procedural justice in public agencies' relationships with communities as key to effective partnering for health equity.
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Behavioral Health; Care Coordination; Community Partnering; Health Equity; Procedural Justice
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