Newsletter Articles | October 12, 2018
Addressing The Social Services/Health Care Overlap—Optum In Salt Lake County, Utah
Sustaining the social services and health care overlaps found within any strategy that address the social determinants of health (SDH) presents a financial challenge faced by payers—how to defined populations by various SDH and treat those consumers as a “whole person”?
For more on that this month, we touched base with Tracy Luoma, Executive Director for Optum Salt Lake County, Utah. She talked to us about how they developed housing support services for consumers receiving assertive community treatment in Salt Lake County. To do this Optum hired a full-time person to coordinate housing services, conducted a community needs . . .