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- Title
Improving Health and Addressing Social Determinants of Health Through Hospital Partnerships.
- Authors
Hamadi, Hanadi Y.; Zhao, Mei; Park, Sinyoung; Xu, Jing; Haley, Donald Rob; Lox, Curt; Spaulding, Aaron C.
- Abstract
Hospitals and health systems are forming partnerships to develop an integrated social network of services that better address the needs of their surrounding communities and their social determinants of health (SDOH). There is little research on the association of these partnered services with hospital outcomes. This study examined the association between hospital social need partnerships and activities to improve hospital and community outcomes. A secondary cross-sectional design to analyze 2021 census data of nonfederal short-term acute care hospitals in the United States was utilized. Data were obtained from the American Hospital Association. Four multilevel logistic regression models were used to analyze data from 1005 hospitals. The authors found that hospital partnership type differed in association to social need outcomes. They found that hospitals with a partnership with health insurance providers were more likely to have better health outcomes. Hospitals partnered with health insurance providers, local organizations addressing housing insecurity, local businesses, or chambers of commerce were more likely to have decreased health care costs. Hospitals partnered with health care providers, health insurance providers, local organizations providing legal assistance, or law enforcement/safety forces were more likely to have decreased utilization of hospital services. However, hospitals partnered with other local or state government or social service organizations were less likely to indicate decreased utilization of services. Many hospitals and health systems across the United States are screening for SDOH and are advancing health care delivery and improving the community's overall health and well-being by identifying unmet social needs and partnering with the community to address them.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HOSPITALS; MEDICAL quality control; EVALUATION of medical care; SOCIAL determinants of health; PUBLIC relations; CONFIDENCE intervals; CROSS-sectional method; MULTIPLE regression analysis; PEARSON correlation (Statistics); QUALITY assurance; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; LOGISTIC regression analysis; DATA analysis software; ODDS ratio; MEDICAL needs assessment
- Publication
Population Health Management, 2023, Vol 26, Issue 2, p121
- ISSN
1942-7891
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1089/pop.2023.0002