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Under the Same Sky: Live conversations with healthcare thought leaders. Today, our guests include Susan Rawlings Molina, CEO of GroundGame.Health, along with Chris Burrows, a GroundGame.Health community care worker. Susan will talk about GroundGame.Health's unique approach to closing the loop on the last mile in healthcare, while Chris will share a real-world story about the impact that GroundGame.Health is having an impact of the lives of the people they help.

Advancing health equity and addressing heath-related social needs doesn't happen in a vacuum. At SameSky Health and GroundGame.Health, we work tirelessly with our health plan partners every day on these fronts. In a recent AJMC article, writer Giuliana Grossi describes one of the discussions at the CMS Health Equity conference. Grossi quotes Cindy Massuda, JD, senior technical advisor, CMS: “We really do know the importance of stratifying the data and that screening positive for health-related social need is an important step toward expanding the collection, reporting, and analyzing of our standardized equity-related data across the postacute care settings." Read more: https://sames.ky/4bZbA7y

Last week, Abner Mason sat down with Susan Rawlings Molina, CEO of GroundGame.Health — with whom we recently merged — for the latest conversation in our ongoing series, Under the Same Sky. The series was created to discuss the advancement of health equity, and improving access to care, and our newly combined organizations are even better prepared to do both. In this episode, we shared more details about our merger, and how we're helping people overcome health-related social needs. And because where the rubber hits the road is where the magic happens, Susan and Chris Burrows, one of our community engagement managers, shared real-world examples about how we're working to close the loop on the last mile in healthcare — and have a significant and positive impact people’s lives, while reducing costs for our health plan partners. Read a summary, and watch the replay: https://sames.ky/3RcZDT3

Did you miss our latest episode of Under the Same Sky yesterday? You can view a recording of the full conversation between Abner Mason and both Susan Rawlings Molina and Chris Burrows of GroundGame.Health. https://sames.ky/3X3Lbkk

LATER THIS MORNING! Our live discussion series, Under the Same Sky, returns TODAY at 1:30 PM Eastern, 10:30 AM Pacific. Join us to hear more about our merger with GroundGame.Health, and how we’re helping people overcome health-related social needs. Our guests include Susan Rawlings Molina, CEO of GroundGame.Health, along with Chris Burrows, a GroundGame.Health community care worker. Susan will talk about GroundGame.Health's unique approach to closing the loop on the last mile in healthcare, while Chris will share a real-world story about the impact that GroundGame.Health is having an impact of the lives of the people they help. Find out more: https://sames.ky/3wPNDzV Then join us right here on LinkedIn, or listen after-the-fact through your preferred podcast app. #healthequity #sdoh #hrsn

Our live discussion series, Under the Same Sky, returns on Tuesday, May 28 at 1:30 PM Eastern, 10:30 AM Pacific. Join us to hear more about our merger with GroundGame.Health, and how we’re helping people overcome health-related social needs. Our guests include Susan Rawlings Molina, CEO of GroundGame.Health, along with Chris Burrows, a GroundGame.Health community care worker. Susan will talk about GroundGame.Health's unique approach to closing the loop on the last mile in healthcare, while Chris will share a real-world story about the impact that GroundGame.Health is having an impact of the lives of the people they help. Find out more: https://sames.ky/3wPNDzV Then join us right here on LinkedIn, or listen after-the-fact through your preferred podcast app. #healthequity #sdoh #hrsn

One week ago our Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer Abner Mason had the pleasure of joining impact-focused leaders on the California Association of Area Agencies on Aging (C4A) Annual Conference — thank you Pamela Mokler, MSG for facilitating such a substantive panel discussion and to everyone who is helping Connect the Unconnected in California.

MedCity News has a great piece about the connections needed to scale healthcare innovation, which included a shoutout for GroundGame.Health and our approach of facilitating trusted, human-to-human connections in communities to drive impact. You can read the article here: https://sames.ky/4akPytW And if you missed the news, we recently merged with GroundGame.Health to accelerate our ability to address persistent health inequities. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/gGUgzdpx

The social determinants of health (SDOH), also referred to as the social drivers of health, can directly affects a person's ability to access care, and impact health and wellness. PatientEngagementHIT explores some of the top SDOH factors that interfere with patient care access, from income to racial bias to language barriers to transportation issues. Read more about this important topic: https://sames.ky/3WEHi59

Representation Matters Session Spotlight: Afternoon Panel Representation Matters: The Role of Inclusive Health Tech in Health Care Register Today: https://lnkd.in/eZruCrG3 This year’s afternoon panel will engage a multidisciplinary group of leaders from the field to discuss recent developments in digital technology and implications on safety-net primary care practice. The discussion will explore how the SCOTUS reversal of race-based affirmative action has impacted inclusive representation in the health tech industry. Panelists will propose their policy, research, and practice recommendations for improving inclusion of safety-net primary populations, healthcare teams, and systems in ongoing advancements in healthcare tech. Our full lineup of acclaimed speakers in the afternoon panel includes: Moderator/Discussant: 🔹 Rashmi R. Rao, Managing Director, rcubed | ventures Panelists: 🔹 Irene Dankwa-Mullan MD MPH, Chief Health Officer, Marti Health; Affiliate Faculty Professor, The George Washington University- Milken Institute School of Public Health 🔹 Binoy Bhansali, CEO and Co-Founder, Diverge Health 🔹 Abner Mason Abner Mason, Founder and CEO, SameSky Health; Board Member, Manifest MedEx 🔹 Sahee Abdelmomin, Senior Associate, Virtual Health Team, Tulsa Innovation Labs ▶ The Symposium is free and CE/CME is available at no cost for nine disciplines. ▶ To register and view additional information, visit: https://lnkd.in/eFcy_iPM #WeitzmanSymposium #HealthEquity #PrimaryCare