
HealthBegins
@healthbegins
A mission-driven consulting & training firm dedicated to improving the social & structural drivers of health equity. #upstream #SDOH #healthequity #healthcare
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http://healthbegins.org 22-12-2011 15:18:56
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Thrilled to partner with Elevance Health to launch the Social Needs Investment Lab’s first tool: the Evidence Assessment Library. This resource empowers healthcare & social service organizations make evidence-based decisions for social needs interventions: buff.ly/4hE3OmE


In our latest #newsletter, Rishi Manchanda MD MPH discusses how we can counter the threats to public health and #healthequity through collaboration. May 2025: To Protect Social Care, Double Down on Collaboration healthbegins.org/may-2025-to-pr…



"Taking health care & food away from the poor to help the rich always comes off as pretty heartless. It is especially so when you’re threatening to take away livelihoods, too." Catherine Rampell Now might be exactly the worst time to cut Medicaid and food stamps wapo.st/4dlGBEa



When you deprive patients of basic health care needs, the consequences become deadly. #abortionishealthcare #womenshealth Sepsis Rates Vary Widely in Dallas and Houston Under Abortion Ban propublica.org/article/texas-… by Kavitha Surana Lizzie Presser Andrea Suozzo via ProPublica


All these cuts and changes to #Medicaid policies will only further harm vulnerable populations. #publichealth States Push Medicaid Work Rules, but Few Programs Help Enrollees Find Jobs kffhealthnews.org/MjAxMTE2Ng by Phil Galewitz Katheryn Houghton Angela Hart via @kffhealthnews




Join speakers from Corewell Health Lutheran Settlement House George Mason University to learn about Blended Value—a better way to calculate the value of #healthequity programs and social needs investments. Making Better Health Equity Investments Through Blended Value us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…


Any changes or disruptions to health coverage can be deadly for those with #diabetes. Health Insurance Transitions For Young People With Diabetes Can Be Life Threatening | Health Affairs healthaffairs.org/content/forefr… by Amy Killelea Christine Monahan from Center on Health Insurance Reforms


"The expansion of #Medicaid has saved more than 27,000 lives since 2010." As Congress Debates Cutting Medicaid, a Major Study Shows It Saves Lives nytimes.com/2025/05/16/hea… by Sarah Kliff Margot Sanger-Katz Asmaa Elkeurti via The New York Times CC: Sarah Miller


TOMORROW! Join speakers from Corewell Health Lutheran Settlement House George Mason University to learn about Blended Value—a better way to calculate the value of #healthequity programs and social needs investments. Making Better Health Equity Investments Through Blended Value us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…


ONE HOUR! Join speakers from Corewell Health Lutheran Settlement House George Mason University to learn about Blended Value—a better way to calculate the value of #healthequity programs and social needs investments. Making Better Health Equity Investments Through Blended Value us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…


As outlined here, #Medicaid work requirement programs lead to coverage loss for people through no fault of their own. More Than 100,000 Michigan Residents Nearly Lost Medicaid Coverage Under Work Requirements commonwealthfund.org/blog/2025/mich… by Robert Gordon via Commonwealth Fund


ICYMI! We had our webinar on Blended Value. Watch as speakers from Corewell Health Lutheran Settlement House Urban Institute & George Mason University discuss a better way to calculate the value of #healthequity programs & social needs investments than conventional ROI. Watch: youtu.be/txiCYEwoCj0



Less people with health coverage + more #medicaldebt + more strain of families = terrible policy. #publichealth The House Republican Budget Reconciliation Legislation: Unpacking The Coverage Provisions Health Affairs healthaffairs.org/content/forefr… by Katie Keith of O'Neill Institute


Failure to boost our #primarycare system will harm many communities and have longterm #publichealth consequences. US primary care system in dire need of investment as insurance payments to providers fall thenationshealth.org/content/55/3/1… by Kim Krisberg via The Nation's Health APHA


Putting up barriers to #Medicaid is bad policy that inflicts further harms on vulnerable populations. As Republicans weigh Medicaid work requirements, Georgia offers a warning wapo.st/4k4P6WI by Fenit Nirappil Azi™️ via The Washington Post CC: MaryBeth Musumeci
