We specialize in equitable, innovative, evidenced-based, community, and person-centered health system design and delivery.

Practice Transformation

The U.S. spends more on healthcare than any other high-income nation, yet has a lower life expectancy and worse health outcomes overall. Healthcare spending in the U.S. is five times that of the second-highest spending country (Canada). Despite this astronomical private spend, the U.S. is also third-highest in public spending, despite only covering 34 percent of residents through public programs including Medicare and Medicaid.

Elevation Health Partners helps our clients build the necessary internal capacity for ongoing, sustainable, large-scale transformation to new payment models. We break this transformation down to manageable steps and puts providers on the pathway to demonstrate and deliver better care.

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Public and Population Health

Only about 40% of preventable deaths can be attributed to genetic predisposition or inadequate access to quality healthcare in the United States (McGinnis et al., 2002). Awareness is increasing that medical care alone cannot adequately improve health overall or reduce health disparities without also addressing conditions where people, live, learn, work, and play. These conditions are known as social determinants of health (SDoH).

When healthcare delivery systems expand their interactions with patients to SDoH concerns (the domain of the public health system), health outcomes improve. 

Our approach includes advancing payment models and technical capabilities while combining that analysis with care management strategies that take a whole-patient view. 

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Quality Improvement

Until today, quality improvement programs have failed to spread rapidly, largely due to an unclear understanding of the financial benefit of these initiatives. The adoption of a Quality Strategy from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and associated new payments models propel quality improvement initiatives forward.

Elevation Health Partners specializes in meeting Quadruple Aim objectives through focused leadership, integration of health information technology, data analytics, telehealth, and care coordination tools.

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Our data-driven, evidence-based quality improvement strategies are tailored to providers from all settings including payers, purchasers, businesses, researchers, and federal and state governments.

Patient Centered Medical Home

Our specialized PCMH team will guide you through the entire process to achieve NCQA recognition, meet annual reporting requirements, and complete your accelerated renewal.

We have assisted twenty-five sites from nine Los Angeles based FQHCs to achieve PCMH recognition. Our 100% recognition success rate is credited to our onsite collaboration with clinic leadership, administration, and care teams. Together, we develop policies and procedures, workflows, and reporting templates to comply with all PCMH criteria, including the most challenging efforts of empanelment, risk stratification, care transitions and management, data visualization, and quality improvement.Our Approach

Policy and Legislation

Elevation Health Partners helps nonprofit, advocacy, government agencies, and private companies study the impact of legislation and political considerations over a range of issues. The team at Elevation Health Partners specializes in navigating complex decisions involving regulated industries, complicated funding, and reimbursement strategies.

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Strategy and Operations

Los Angeles is characterized as densely populated and racially, ethnically, and economically diverse. Throughout the state, provider organizations and health systems face the challenge of a fragmented health system. While provider organizations serving vulnerable safety-net populations are in a slightly better position (given the shift of approximately 3.4 million adult Californians from the uninsured to Medi-Cal), many lack the strategy and resources to address primary care shortages. The delivery of efficient, integrated patient-centered care remains out of reach.

Our approach combines rigorous analyses and research with our extensive industry knowledge in order to develop a solution tailored to each of our clients' needs. Elevation Health Partners’ consultants work closely with all levels of management and staff to identify complex issues within an organization and effective solutions.

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Workforce Wellness

Workforce Wellness, also referred to as corporate wellbeing, is a holistic approach embraced by organizations to foster an inclusive and supportive environment where employees can thrive mentally, emotionally, physically, and socially. This entails nurturing a culture that not only promotes healthy behaviors in the workplace but also prioritizes employee well-being, empowering them to lead fulfilling and balanced lives both within and outside of work.

At Elevation Health Partners, we play a pivotal role in assisting our clients in integrating workforce wellness initiatives through organizational initiatives and policies aimed at enhancing the health, well-being, and productivity of employees. This includes tailored activities to promote physical, mental, and emotional well-being among staff members, such as fitness and exercise programs, healthy eating initiatives, stress management workshops, flexible work arrangements, education and awareness campaigns, and mental health support services.

Elevation Health Partners strives to help clients enhance organizational performance by fostering healthier work environments, thereby boosting productivity, improving employee satisfaction and retention, and reducing absenteeism.

Social Drivers of Health and Equity

Social Drivers of Health (SDOH) and Health Equity are deeply interconnected. SDOH play a pivotal role in shaping health outcomes and access to essential resources and opportunities. These drivers encompass factors including socioeconomic status, education, employment, housing, working conditions, healthcare accessibility, food security, social support networks, and environmental factors. By significantly influencing individuals' health outcomes, SDOH contribute to disparities in health across different population groups.

In contrast, Health Equity ensures that everyone has a fair opportunity to achieve their highest level of health. It involves addressing disparities in health outcomes that are avoidable, unfair, and rooted in social, economic, and environmental disadvantages. Achieving health equity means recognizing and addressing the systemic barriers and inequities that contribute to differences in health outcomes among different population groups.

At Elevation Health Partners, we are dedicated to assisting our clients in addressing SDOH and promoting health equity. Through collaborative efforts and tailored interventions, we work alongside our clients to identify and mitigate barriers to health and well-being within their communities. This includes conducting comprehensive assessments, developing tailored strategies, collaborating with community organizations and healthcare providers, implementing workplace policies, offering health promotion programs and services, advocating for policy changes, and providing training and education. We incorporate SDOH data findings to inform equitable health care strategies, and employ identified strategies through tailored interventions to move the needle on populations based on disparities and specific needs.

By addressing SDOH and advancing Health Equity through our partnerships with clients, we can create communities where everyone has the chance to live a healthy and fulfilling life and achieve optimal health.