The Age-Friendly Health Care Package for State Multi-sector Plans for Aging is a grant-funded project to improve care for older adults. The project brings together three separate initiatives focused on hospital care: Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation, Geriatric Surgery Verification, and Age-Friendly Health Systems (4Ms Framework). The goal is to support State Multisector Plans for Aging…

Information coming soon In the meanwhile, here’s this

Communities all over the country mobilized formal and informal organizations to address the COVID-19 pandemic.  The RISE partnership coordinated a huge data collection strategy to get information on community wellbeing and needs.  We have been helping with the data pipeline and the data cleaning (which is quite massive <sigh>), and has been yielding actionable information…

What does it take to really integrate equity into population and community health? The state of Rhode Island has been support community-based teams as they work toward improving the scope of their outreach efforts. More recently, this has included integrated community health workers as active participants, leaders, and community champions.  Our approach to learning has…

Bouncing back from COVID takes collaboration and coordination between thousands of community-based partners and governmental agencies. We work to curate and report back data from these communities so stakeholders can understand what they need to address to work toward health and equity. Communities RISE is driven by a partnership of diverse, trusted organizations with deep…