Familias en Acción has received two year funding in the amount of $100,000 from Meyer Memorial Trust and $90,000 from The Collins Foundation to develop a community partnership model to integrate community health workers/ patient navigators into a team based health clinic. This is a two-year program that began during the summer of 2015.
The goal is to build a model process for partnerships between health systems and community organizations to integrate community health workers/patient navigators into patient care teams, with a sustainable payment model. The resulting coordination can reduce the impact of social determinants that affect health outcomes. When healthcare personnel have support to work with community patient navigators, the team can provide care of Latino patients that meets the Triple Aim of: higher quality of care, better health outcomes and reduced costs. At the conclusion of two years, the model will be available for implementation throughout Kaiser Permanente and will be offered to other health systems in Oregon and SW Washington.
Funding from Meyer Memorial Trust and The Collins Foundation is the critical first step in building this model. Familias en Acción is awaiting notice from other funders to complete the funding of this project.
For more information please email: Gail Brownmiller at [email protected].
