Unite Us, which seeks to use software to address the social determinants of health, believes that PVA’s Veteran Career Program will help military personnel, veterans, military spouses, and their caregivers access housing, transportation, mental health, and more. Helps you connect with important resources like health.
Why this matters
A pressing need for this population is to address the lack of access to basic necessities, which goes beyond career programs, according to the PVA announcement.
PVA works to address the needs of devastatingly disabled and paralyzed veterans. Serving veterans from 70 offices in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, the organization develops training and career services, addresses accessibility in public buildings and spaces, and promotes health and rehabilitation. We offer opportunities.
According to PVA, the new analytics-driven partnership will help clients stay focused on their job search and help more veterans in new locations.
“PVA’s Veterans Career Program helps veterans across the country seek new careers, but our clients’ immediate needs are out of the scope of career support and more important than they interfere with their professional goals. In a statement, PVA’s Veterans Career Program.
“Partnering with a collaborative medicine network like Unite Us is a game changer,” he said.
Based in New York City, Unite Us is focused on building equity in population health care through a coordinated care network of health and social service providers (the infrastructure of care).
According to the company’s website, within the HITRUST-accredited ecosystem, providers from different sectors identify social care needs, receive referrals, report results, and participate in paid social care programs, government funding and subsidies. We manage payments from gold, philanthropic investments and hospital community benefit dollars. .
the bigger trend
Technological innovation and health equity policies Drive change to address SDOHAccording to Unite Us CEO Dan Brillman and Melissa Sherry, Vice President of Social Care Integration,
Several states, such as North Carolina, California, Massachusetts, Arizona, and Oregon, have extended Medicaid dollars coverage to community-based social services. This fundamental shift in allocating Medicaid funding to clinical care only is an example of a paradigm shift that can overcome barriers to healthcare, they say.
“While there is debate about whether funding community-based services should be the responsibility of health care, health care payers and providers remain skeptical about quality unless they address the underlying determinants of health. There is strong evidence to support the notion that targets related to , cost and equity cannot be achieved,” she said. Healthcare IT News.
on record
“As a veteran, I am grateful to America’s paralyzed veterans and what they have done to ensure that the veterans community has full access to the resources they need to live healthy, fulfilling and independent lives. We appreciate the work being done,” said Adrian Shirk, senior director of the community. In a statement from PVA, an organizational partnership under Unite Us.
Andrea Fox is senior editor for Healthcare IT News.
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