Our vision is a world where all communities and people who have been the most impacted by multiple systems of oppression have access to the resources and care they need to thrive and live with abundant health. AHE exists to inspire innovation and collaboration to advance health equity nationwide and promote a healthcare system without inequities. Our mission is to transform patient care by bringing together multi-partner state teams of state Medicaid agencies, health plans, healthcare delivery organizations, patients, and community-based organizations. We help them develop, align, and implement payment reform and care transformation that address the medical and social needs of patients and communities, within an anti-racist culture of equity.
We meet health care organizations where they are at in their health equity journeys; we work them within their sociopolitical contexts and guide them where they need to go.
Each webinar will touch on various aspects of AHE’s Roadmap to Advance Health Equity and will feature members from AHE’s LC team who will discuss their team’s specific health care transformation as well as challenges they’ve encountered and wins they’ve realized along the way. Attendees will leave each interactive webinar session with practical ideas and solutions that they can apply to their own efforts to advance health equity.
Advancing Health Equity through Patient and Community Partnership
Jan. 29, 2025
11am-1:30pm PST || 1-2:30pm CST || 2-3:30pm EST
This webinar will highlight learnings from the Advancing Health Equity Program, including tools and resources that organizations can access for their own efforts related to care delivery and payment transformation. Representatives from state teams will share specific examples of their community partnership efforts related to health equity intervention design, focusing on concrete steps they have taken to partner with the communities they serve. Attendees will learn more about:
- connecting with populations with lived experience and strategies for including them in the planning and implementation phases of care transformation.
- pitfalls to avoid when designing and implementing partnership efforts.
- the positive impact meaningful partnerships with patients and community members has on health and health care transformations.
Register for the January 29, 2025 webinar here.
Transforming Care to Advance Health Equity
March 19, 2025
11am-12pm PST || 1-2pm CT || 2-3pm EST
This 60-minute webinar will provide the audience with strategies for planning and implementing care transformations that address the root causes of health and health care inequities, focusing on examples of specific care transformation initiatives implemented by AHE’s Learning Collaborative teams. Attendees will learn more about:
- the necessary components of multi-stakeholder, collaborative care delivery transformation for systems-level change.
- key components for conducting an effective root cause analysis with an equity lens to diagnose existing health and healthcare inequities to inform care transformation activities.
- how state-based teams specifically designed their care transformations using their root cause analysis.
Register for the March 19, 2025, webinar here.
Payment Transformation & Contracting Approaches to Advance Health Equity
April 23, 2025
11am-12pm PST || 1-2pm CT || 2-3pm EST
This 60-minute webinar will explore how to design and implement payment reform mechanisms that support and incentivize the transformation of healthcare delivery to reduce health inequities by meeting medical and social needs, highlighting the work of AHE’s Learning Collaborative teams. Attendees will learn more about:
- incorporating equity into value based payment program design, with specific examples from Learning Collaborative teams.
- leveraging contractual requirements to prioritize, support and advance health equity at the provider, plan, and state level.
- the benefits and challenges of working on multi-stakeholder, collaborative teams to design payment models.