As a major health philanthropy in Texas, EHF has developed a diverse range of tools, both financial and non-financial, that help to improve the health of all Texans.
This year, EHF’s Research and Evaluation team launched “Digging Deeper,” collaborating with trusted partners to analyze the research topics and health trends that are central to EHF’s vision for a healthier Texas.
Crosscutting themes surfaced from EHF’s learning and exploration of diabetes prevention interventions. Opportunities exist to increase screening to address health disparities in prediabetes and diabetes and for Texas Medicaid to explore funding models to include the CDC’s National Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) as a reimbursable service with the intention to reduce diabetes among beneficiaries.
Community paramedicine models of care provide a strategy that is working across the nation to address non-medical drivers of health. There is a growing body of evidence that programs like GLOW can address needs of the community that are beyond the capacity and reach of our traditional medicine model of care.
After co-funding a national CAPGI learning and feasibility planning initiative, EHF’s Shao-Chee Sim and C.J. Eisenbarth Hager share their reflections and key takeaways.
A promising approach to uncover uncommon behaviors and practices in addressing food insecurity
Professors in the School of Social Work at Stephen F. Austin University used the Positive Deviance approach to learn what practices set social service providers whose clients achieved unexpected success apart from the typical provider.
The Accountable Health Communities (AHC) Model was a 5-year Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center project (running May 2017 to April 2022) that tested whether systematically identifying and addressing the health-related social needs of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries’ has an impact on healthcare utilization.