Basic Needs: Health Care

Seven Vital Conditions for Health and Well-Being

This Community Commons collection introduces the Seven Vital Conditions for Well-Being

Safety Net Dental Clinic Manual

This manual is designed to help safety net dental clinic staff with all aspects of clinic development and ongoing operations, including facilities and staffing,...

National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center

This webpage contains a collection of selected resources on mobile maternal and child oral health services.

Provider Toolkit

This webpage is intended help educators, health providers, nonprofits, and other partners use the Starts with One campaign in their communities. It contains a t...

DentistLink North Sounds ACH Webinar Slides PDF

This slide deck provides an overview of DentistLink, a tool that connects people across the State of Washington to dental care.

Weekly Webinar Series: DentistLink: Connecting to Oral Health Care

This webinar introduces DentistLink and how it can be used to connect patients and clients to oral healthcare in the North Sound region. DentistLink bridges gap...

Mobile-Portable Dental Care

This document provides an overview of mobile dental clinics and their role in helping address dental care needs for populations with limited access.

Evidence-Based Practices to Improve Adolescent Well-Child Visits

This document is adapted from “Paving the Road to Good Health Strategies for Increasing Medicaid Adolescent Well-Care Visits” and provides strategie...

Dental Health Aid Therapists (DHATs)

This document provides an overview of the Dental Health Aide Therapists model and how it can address barriers in dental care in American Indian and Alaska Nativ...

Chronic Disease Self-Management Programs Brief

This brief introduces Chronic Disease Self-Management Programs, which are small group workshops for people with chronic disease and their caregivers that focus ...

Oral Health in Primary Care Integration

This brief introduces the Oral Health Delivery Framework, a conceptual framework for how to engage patients and families, and to make oral health preventive car...

Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers (INTERACT)

This document introduces INTERACT (Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers), a quality improvement program that focuses on the management of acute change i...

Health Care Data 101

This informational guide introduces non-health sector professionals to health care data. This guide answers questions on topics such as health care data collect...

Addressing Patients’ Social Needs: An Emerging Business Case for Provider Investment

This report focuses on new models of health care, where public and private payers hold providers accountable for patients’ health and health care costs. P...

Hospital Community Benefit Programs Increasing Benefits to Communities

This article provides suggestions for a modest reorientation of hospital community benefit programs could help accelerate the development of successful regional...

Leading through Health System Change: Planning Tool

This tool has been designed for public health practitioners at all levels to practice using adaptive thinking as they grapple with the many questions presented ...

Care Coordination Toolkit

This toolkit is part of a series of toolkits that is intended to educate the general public about accountable care organizations (ACOs) and to support current a...