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This case describes efforts to promote racial equity in healthcare financing from the perspective of one public health organization, Community Care Cooperative (C3). C3 is a Medicaid Accountable Care Organization–i.e., an organization set up to manage…

Jessie Gaeta, the chief medical officer for Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP), learned on April 7, 2020 that the City of Boston needed BHCHP to design and staff in 48 hours one half of Boston Hope, a 1,000-bed field hospital for…

On February 1, 2020, Jessie Gaeta, the chief medical officer for Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP), received news that a student in Boston had tested positive for the novel coronavirus virus that causes COVID-19 disease. Since…

Elizabeth, a middle-aged African American woman living in Minnesota, develops chest pain and eventually presents to a local emergency room, where she is diagnosed with stress-related pain and given Vicodin. Members of a non-profit wellness center where…

The SALUDos program began in 2008 as a response to an influx of migrant seasonal farm workers (MSFWs) at a mobile medical unit serving homeless persons in Santa Clara County in Northern California. The program offered patients free and low-cost primary…

This case describes and explores the development of the first medical transitions clinic in Louisiana by a group of community members, health professionals, and students at Tulane Medical School in 2015.  The context surrounding health in metro New…

A deep sense of foreboding filled Dr. James O’Connell and his team at Boston Health Care for the Homeless (BHCHP) in October 2014. The Boston mayor’s office had just condemned the 64-year-old bridge that provided the only passage to the…

As the Chief Administrative Officer of UMass Memorial Health Care (UMMHC) and president of UMass Memorial (UMM) Community Hospitals, Douglas Brown had just received unanimous and enthusiastic approval to pursue his “Anchor Mission” project at…

This teaching case study examines psychological trauma in a community context and the relevance, both positive and negative, of social determinants of health. Healthy People 2020 views people residing in communities with large-scale psychological trauma…

This module will present two unfolding case studies based on real-world, actual events. The cases will require participants to review videos embedded into three modules and a summary module:Introduction to Concepts of Social Determinant of Health and…