Health Leads’ Methodology & Evaluation. Health Leads’ methodology for evaluating impact includes: 1  Tracking of families’ progress in a client database, using metrics such as needs identified and resource connections verified. 2  Measuring Health Leads’ economic impact on healthcare institutions.
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In such a scenario, Health Leads would act as trainers. Another option would be to have the universities or the clinics pay Health Leads to train their students to perform this brand of service work. Whatever the future holds for Onie and Health Leads, it is clear that the current model works.
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A Solution to Challenges. When patients and their families seek medical care, they often face critical challenges in their lives at the same time – they have little food, they have no job, they struggle to keep up with bills for gas and electricity. Not surprisingly, these challenges affect their health.
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Relationships may be long-term or short-term based on patients’ needs and preferences. As part of the clinic team, our Advocates also provide ongoing updates on a patient’s progress in securing basic resources to doctors, nurses, social workers, and other healthcare providers.
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Health Leads enables doctors to prescribe food, housing, or other critical resources, just as they would medication. Patients take their prescriptions to a Health Leads desk in the clinic, where Advocates (college student volunteers) connect them to these resources.
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When families visit one of our partner hospitals or health centers, the clinic team screens them for basic needs like food and heat that can affect their health. Healthcare providers prescribe resources to meet these needs, often using the electronic medical record to refer patients to Health Leads.
http://healthleadsusa.org/what-we-do/our-model/
A recent study (link at left) found Health Leads assisted 50% of client families at 1 clinic in accessing at least 1 resource—most often employment, health insurance, or food—within 6 months. The authors concluded “the Health Leads model had a positive impact on reducing unmet social needs for low-income families.
http://www.socialimpactexchange.org/organization/health-leads
By enabling doctors to write prescriptions to fill their patients’ basic resource needs, Health Leads envisions a health care system that addresses all patients’ basic resource needs as a standard part of quality care.
http://elfenworks.org/projecthealth/
Health Leads Advocates then work side by side with patients to navigate the complexity of the resource landscape – including tracking down phone numbers, printing maps, securing transportation, and completing applications. The Advocates follow up with patients regularly by phone, email, or during clinic visits.
http://healthleadsusa.org/what-we-do/our-model/
Health Leads works through pediatric clinics, as pediatricians understand the link between a dearth in resources and ill health. And because pediatricians must talk with the parents about a child’s particular needs, they are able to address an entire family’s unmet needs.
http://elfenworks.org/projecthealth/
what is health leads
Health Leads enables doctors to prescribe food, housing, or other critical resources, just as they would medication.