We envision an America in which all the sectors that affect health are led, designed, and financed in ways that foster healthy people and thriving communities.
Multi-sector partnerships play an increasingly significant role in the movement to improve heath, equity, and economic prosperity. The Pulse Check is the only survey of its kind to ask national leaders how partnerships have developed over time and how their work has been financed.
Ventures is working with six communities to show that an integrated, dynamic, and high-functioning health ecosystem is possible.
ReThink Health worked with the Minnesota Department of Health to explore the connections between incarceration and health.
We work with visionary leaders to transform health at the regional level – their neighborhoods, cities, counties, or states. We promote broad and systemic thinking that allows leaders to step outside their own frames of reference so they can better see how the various parts of the system interact in unexpected ways and determine how and where they can exert influence. Our hope is that by demonstrating regional success, we inspire transformation across the country.
Long-term, sustainable financing is a major challenge for the majority of multisector partnerships. Many depend overwhelmingly on short-term sources of funding—namely, grants. It’s time to explore new financing frontiers.
An exercise that provides a picture of regional policies and initiatives addressing both “urgent needs” and “vital conditions” – allowing leaders to explore how these could shift to deliver better results.
Transforming the system that produces health and well-being is no small task. To do it well, regional stewards will need to facilitate cross-sector collaboration and alignment to create conditions for lasting change.
Our Model helps leaders and teams test their own “what if….?” scenarios and develop priorities and strategies for significant system change.
Practical ideas and tools for leaders exploring the edges of health system transformation.
This is the first in a five part series expressing some of what we’ve learned through our ReThink Health Ventures…
Sustainable financing can be a scary topic for people deeply engaged transforming their regional health systems. It has been difficult enough, over the years, to find short-term grant funding, let alone reliable, long-term financial support for population health projects whose positive outcomes often are not immediately apparent. But what if we told you that your multisector partnership or organization doesn’t have to depend only on short-term grant funding—that sustainable funding is possible?
In this sixth post in our seven-part blog series, we consider some of the common pitfalls leaders such as yourself…
So far in our blog series on transformation strategy we’ve been discussing why it’s important to develop a theory of system change and portfolio of interventions if you want to succeed in transforming regional health and well-being. In this latest post, we welcome guest bloggers Stacey Chang and Beto Lopez, who apply design thinking to health care challenges at the Design Institute for Health in Austin, Texas.
As this series comes to a close, Rebecca Niles offers a recap of each post and introduces ReThink Health's Regional Transformation Strategy Assessment Tool, a new tool that helps leaders assess the quality of a current transformation strategy, or one in development.
Over the past few weeks, the ReThink Health team has been blogging about the critical role sound strategy plays in…
In this post, ReThink Health’s Bobby Milstein offers up a story about an endeavor currently underway in King County, Washington, where a group of organizational leaders and residents has come together around shared values and a comprehensive strategy to steer its health system in a new direction.
If diverse leaders in your region share ambitious, transformative goals but are struggling to bring those aspirations to life, then a productive next step might be to develop a comprehensive regional strategy. Today on The ReThinkers’ Blog we are kicking off a seven-part blog series with an exploration into the key components of designing and enacting a comprehensive regional strategy.
For regions that seek to transform the well-being of their populations, the task can seem overwhelming. Regional leaders must be attentive to what they are trying to achieve and think through what activities and investments will get them there. But what does that require, exactly?
One of The Rippel Foundation’s most important contributions to the field of population health is the ReThink Health Dynamics Model, which has been freely available and widely used since its launch seven years ago. However, despite its broad utility, we have always wanted to make the platform could be more user friendly. In response to growing demand, we invested in a new set online features that make the Model even easier to use. Today we are excited to share these updates as well as revisit the Model's broad utility for an array of users.
This week, we invited Sherry Immediato, the ReThink Health Ventures coach for the Finger Lakes, to add her thoughts to following Tribly's post. In her role, Sherry has had an insider’s view of the impressive work happening in the Finger Lakes. In this post, she offers lessons that other multisector partnerships might learn from the Finger Lakes and apply to their own transformation efforts.
ReThink Health Ventures has been working closely with six communities that are deeply committed to transforming health, including the Finger Lakes region of New York. This week, we hear from Trilby de Jung, CEO of Common Ground Health, which is coordinating transformation efforts in the Finger Lakes.
Successfully engaging community members in efforts to improve their health and well-being requires understanding their local context.
Last week we kicked off the first blog introducing you to our Resident Engagement Series. In part two, we shift from understanding how multisector work must operate in ways that align with a community's vision and include authentic voices, to ask, what are the actual best approaches to involve residents?
Resident engagement is challenging work and we are only just beginning to sort through how to best create the conditions for residents to lead. In the third blog of our series, we report on our findings that multisector partnerships use to effectively create the conditions for residents to lead transformation.
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