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- A Step Beyond Basic Strategic Planning: Integration that Works!
- What’s Involved in the Medicare Suite of Services?
- Why People Being Served Need to Be Included in Planning
- How Does Your Data Treat its Neighbors?
- Building an Age-Friendly Community
- Healthcare Staffing Shortages in New Mexico
- Surfing the “Silver Tsunami”
- Health Care Works Best When it is Community Rooted
- Why Data is Terrific and Makes a Great Case
- Perceptions about Medicaid Expansion and ACA Might Penalize Community Providers
- Evidence Based Practice Standards and Your Programs
- Benchmarks for Contracting with State Governments
- Medicaid Trends
- Building Strategies to Address the Silver Wave
- Managing the Landscape of State-Nonprofit Contracting
- Leveraging & ROI: Strategies to Build Sustainability
- What’s Your Sustainability IQ?
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Category Archives: Sustainability
A Step Beyond Basic Strategic Planning: Integration that Works!
Great Planning Gets Stakeholders Involved and Excited Old methods of strategic planning are static and boring. They don’t achieve results because they don’t fully engage your stakeholders, and use them as partners to build the plan. Strategic planning that goes … Continue reading
Posted in Capacity Building, Community Planning, Data, Effective Practices, Planning, Strategic Planning, Sustainability
Tagged building sustainability, business planning, planning, plans that work, strategic planning, sustainable organizations, vibrant sustainable communities, what works
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Why People Being Served Need to Be Included in Planning
People who are the focus of our plans, services, initiatives, funding, policies or other work should be at the table, as part of the diverse constituency helping to shape the plans. Why? Because it’s the right thing to do. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Capacity Building, Community Planning, Effective Practices, Government, Health Planning, Older Adults, Public Policy, Services for Older Adults, Sustainability
Tagged constituency involvement, effective planning, marginalization, models for effective planning, planning, stakeholder involvement
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How Does Your Data Treat its Neighbors?
Does your data live nicely with its neighbors? How does your data treat its neighbors? How is your data treated by them, and do they work well together? Or are they separated by big walls? Living in silos? Perhaps your … Continue reading
Posted in Capacity Building, Community Based Care, Community Planning, Data, Effective Practices, Evaluation, Evidence Based Practices, Funding, Health Planning, Public Policy, Sustainability
Tagged data, data integration, data systems, IT revolution, managing complex data
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Building an Age-Friendly Community
Age-friendly communities, as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), are those that older adults find to be welcoming. These are communities and regions that are actively friendly toward, and supportive of, older adults. Age-Friendly Community Framework The World Health … Continue reading
Posted in Capacity Building, Community Based Care, Community Planning, Effective Practices, Evaluation, Evidence Based Practices, Older Adults, Public Policy, Services for Older Adults, Sustainability
Tagged age friendly communities, aging, community planning, Older Adults, seniors
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Surfing the “Silver Tsunami”
The aging of our population, or ‘Silver Tsunami,’ as it’s often called, is not something in the future that requires preparation. That’s why it’s called a tsunami, a wave created by an earthquake. Ken Dychtwald was one of the first … Continue reading
Posted in Capacity Building, Community Based Care, Community Planning, Health Planning, Older Adults, Services for Older Adults, Sustainability
Tagged community planning, Demographic Trends, Older Adults, planning for older adult services, Silver Tsunami
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Why Data is Terrific and Makes a Great Case
I confess, I’m a data geek, and love seeing what technology and software have done for data. In short, they’ve made data (which geeks love) come alive in charts and graphs for the average practitioner (who doesn’t want to be burdened … Continue reading
Posted in Capacity Building, Community Planning, Data, Effective Practices, Evaluation, Evidence Based Practices, Health Planning, Medicaid, Services for Older Adults, Sustainability
Tagged data, data for case statements, evaluation, health services, living data, outcome evaluation, planning, services
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Perceptions about Medicaid Expansion and ACA Might Penalize Community Providers
The community health system provides critically needed care, and serves as the “safety net” for many. The creation of the Affordable Care Act, and Medicaid Expansion in many states has resulted in greater coverage and access to care for many … Continue reading
Posted in Community Planning, Effective Practices, Evidence Based Practices, Health Planning, Medicaid, Public Policy, State Contracting, Sustainability
Tagged community health centers, health care, health care financing, health policy, health systems, public health, public health financing
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Evidence Based Practice Standards and Your Programs
They have been called “best practices,” “effective practices,” “promising practices,” and “evidence based practices” (EBPs). Whatever the “nom du jour,” the emphasis continues to focus on identifying what works and funding programs that demonstrate effective practices and strong outcomes. With … Continue reading
Posted in Capacity Building, Community Planning, Effective Practices, Evaluation, Evidence Based Practices, Health Planning, Older Adults, Services for Older Adults, Sustainability
Tagged effective practices, evidence based practices, model programs, programs and services, quality improvement
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Managing the Landscape of State-Nonprofit Contracting
Two new reports from the National Council on Nonprofits (NCNA) and the Urban Institute identify and address serious problems with state government contracting practices with nonprofits. The Urban Institute conducted a survey of nonprofits across the U.S. They found that … Continue reading
Posted in Capacity Building, Funding, State Contracting, Sustainability
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Leveraging & ROI: Strategies to Build Sustainability
During the early years of the economic crisis, many nonprofit and government agencies were caught like “deer in the headlights.” However, over time, our leaders have become more astute at anticipating and responding to trends. And we are less frequently … Continue reading
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