Clinical to Community Connections
ASTHO’s efforts related to building clinical to community connections focus on strengthening collaboration and integration between payers, providers, and public health agencies. The Clinical to Community Connections team collaborates with public health and healthcare stakeholders to develop tools and provide technical assistance that allow public health agencies to maximize resources through cross-agency and cross-sector collaboration.
Community Health Workers
This webpage contains resources for state health agencies on the use of non-licensed providers such as community health workers (CHWs), including resources related to financing, certification and licensure, and examples of work in states to support CHWs.
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Telehealth
This webpage contains resources for state health agencies interested in telehealth implementation, expansion, and using telehealth to increase access to preventive and specialty care, address health disparities affecting vulnerable populations, and save costs.
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Primary Care and Public Health
ASTHO's primary care portfolio examines key areas of the intersection between public health and primary care and addresses the role of states in primary care transformation. This work also supports primary care offices by offering training and technical assistance to state primary care offices, and resources for state health officials on access to care and primary care topics.
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Cross-Sector Partnerships to Address Social Determinants of Health
ASTHO is working to help states, with the leadership of their state health agencies, to address the social determinants that affect our health status on a population level as part of our daily lives. ASTHO’s resources on partnerships to address these factors include issue briefs, policy guides, and resource libraries.
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Medicaid and Public Health Partnerships
ASTHO supports state health agencies by providing information and technical assistance to facilitate partnerships with Medicaid. These activities encompass a range of payment and delivery reform initiatives such as the State Innovation Models (SIM) Initiative and promoting collaborative opportunities between Medicaid and public health that will achieve the Triple Aim of better care, reducing costs, and improving population health outcomes.
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ASTHO Clinical to Community Connections Webinars
To view recordings, slides, and supporting resources from past ASTHO webinars, visit the
clinical to community connections webinars page.