The Providence Center for Outcomes Research & Education (CORE) is pleased to announce four new projects with our cross-sector partners. Read on to learn more about this work and how it supports better health and health equity.
Bringing CORE’s Data for Change model to a Washington State Accountable Community of Health (ACH)
This fall, CORE will launch a new project in Washington State, modeled on our Data for Change program. In partnership with the ACH Better Health Together (BHT), we’ll be working with five community-based organizations (CBOs) to grow their data capacity.
Data coaches from CORE will provide training and support to each CBO. Focus areas include creating logic models, telling data stories, and using client feedback for program improvement. We’re thrilled to expand our Data for Change model to more organizations that are making a difference in their communities!
Participating organizations include:
● American Indian Community Center
● Carl Maxey Center
● Latinos en Spokane
● Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center
● Nuestras Raices
Learn more about Data for Change
Evaluating a Recuperative Care Pilot in Washington County, Oregon
We’re pleased to announce that Washington County and Virginia Garcia Medical Center have selected CORE to design and conduct an evaluation of the county’s Recuperative Care Pilot (RCP) program.
The county launched the program in Hillsboro in 2023. It offers 10 private rooms for people experiencing homelessness to recover from an injury or illness after being hospitalized. Several major local health centers refer patients into the program. Virginia Garcia coordinates medical services for the patients. Greater Good Northwest operates the shelter.
CORE will evaluate the program’s impacts with a goal of helping guide future recuperative care efforts at Virginia Garcia and other health systems.
Learn more about the RCP (news article)
Helping spread the SCAN Foundation’s “ECO Group” model in California
CORE’s role supporting The SCAN Foundation’s Health Equity in Aging initiative is expanding to help spread this work to more California communities.
This bold 10-year initiative seeks to identify and address the root causes of health inequities as people age. One of its key strategies is to form Equity Community Organizing (ECO) Groups made up of older adults and community organizations to lead and support this work at the local level.
CORE has been working with the initiative’s four current ECO groups to gather data and share learnings among the groups and the foundation. As a next step, we’re excited to build a toolkit to help replicate this model in other communities in California and beyond.
Learn more about the Health Equity in Aging Initiative
Evaluating health-related social need investments by Health Share of Oregon
We’re excited to announce that Health Share of Oregon has selected CORE to evaluate the impacts of their health-related social needs (HRSN) capacity-building investments!
Since 2023, Health Share has made strategic investments to help various community partners prepare to provide Medicaid-funded services that address HRSNs like housing and nutrition services. The funding comes from Oregon’s Community Capacity Building Funds (CCBF) initiative and other Health Share funding initiatives.
Our team will use mixed methods to study these investments’ impact on community partner capacity and what helps or hinders effective HRSN service delivery. We’re excited to help Health Share develop strategies that expand capacity and improve access to services that promote health and well-being.
To learn more about any of these projects, contact CORE
