Amanda L. Brewster

Oct 25, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Hector Rodriguez |Héctor Rodríguez |Sarah Epstein |Amanda L. Brewster |Timothy Brown

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA), a commercial health insurer operating across Massachusetts, is the first national commercial health plan to launch a comprehensive equity strategy that redesigns financial incentives to improve racial equity in quality of care.

Aug 14, 2024 | jabfm.org | Christine Lo |Elizabeth Hernandez |Amanda L. Brewster

AbstractIntroduction: Many patients offered case management services to address their health and social needs choose not to engage. Factors that drive engagement remain unclear. We sought to understand patient characteristics associated with engagement in a social needs case management program and variability by case manager.

May 16, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Amanda L. Brewster |Elizabeth Hernandez |Margae Knox |Karl Rubio

Objective To test quantitative process measures characterizing the work of social needs case managers as they assisted patients with diverse health-related needs—spanning both medical and social domains. Study Setting and Design The study analyzed secondary data on 7076 patients working with 147 case managers from the CommunityConnect social needs case management program in Contra Costa County, California from 2018 to 2021.

Oct 16, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Mark Fleming |Nadia Safaeinili |Margae Knox |Amanda L. Brewster

What is known on this topic System alignment efforts aim to coordinate among health care, social service, and public health organizations to achieve common goals. These efforts have been effective in improving population health and efficient use of resource, in part by better addressing social determinants of health. It is not known how system alignment processes evolve over time or may support resilience in response to challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Apr 6, 2023 | ajmc.com | Amanda L. Brewster |Stephen M. Shortell |Hector Rodriguez |Héctor Rodríguez |Chris Miller-Rosales

Apr 6, 2023The American Journal of Managed CareApril 2023Health systems may be better able to support adoption of chronic care management processes, which have a strong evidence base for practice implementation, compared with patient engagement strategies, which have less evidence to guide effective implementation. ABSTRACTObjectives: Physician practices are increasingly owned by health systems, which may support or hinder adoption of innovative care processes for adults with chronic conditions.