We know the complexity of our members’ lives often makes it hard for them to take care of their health when they struggle with competing demands – challenges such as affording rent, paying for healthy meals, facing social isolation, or handling the stress of being a caregiver. [...]
Initial efforts will focus on Medi-Cal members in California, which is ranked 45th in SNAP (known locally as CalFresh) participation nationwide. Generally, interventions will address members’ barriers to SNAP enrollment with deployment at three levels [...]
The Center for Effectiveness and Safety Research (CESR) project, funded by Kaiser Permanente (KP), added two new social needs assessments to the Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO) tables in the CESR Virtual Data Warehouse (VDW) [...]
According to many estimates, more than half of the variability in health outcomes can be attributed to social determinants such as food insecurity, housing instability, unreliable transportation, and financial strain. Recognizing the opportunity to more completely fulfill its mission of improving member health, Kaiser Permanente (KP) has expanded the use of social needs assessments across the organization.
Kaiser Permanente (KP) has committed to identifying basic resource needs such as food, housing, and transportation in its members "as a standard part of quality healthcare and to achieve health equity." In the process of developing an inventory of programs to identify and mitigate these basic resource needs within KP, the Social Needs Network for Evaluation and Translation (SONNET) identified 4 pathways that help identify a member who is contending with one or more of these needs.