The MacColl Center at the KPWHRI compiled best practices and key resources for addressing patients’ social needs within health centers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This case study examines the experience of Southern Prairie, a 12-county collaboration in rural southwestern Minnesota that has facilitated the integration of health care services and community supports through accountable care approaches, which includes a Medicaid accountable care organization (ACO) and a nonprofit center that implements initiatives to address major population health issues.