Patient/Client Privacy: Accessing help with our unique consent model
Patient/Client Privacy: Accessing help with our unique consent model You may have heard leaders in the SDoH space using the phrase “blanket consent” to warn the medical, behavioral, and social industries about what could happen if strict consent policies are not in place in many of the new social/community information exchange platforms popping up across […]
Recognized by the ONC!
Quality Health Network’s Community Resource Network (CRN) was recently highlighted in the ONC’s SDoH Toolkit. As a nationally-recognized trailblazer in the SDoH information exchange space, our CRN platform was called-out as a crucial resource for other health organizations interested in developing similar initiatives in their communities. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information […]
CRN Year in Review
Last year was full of wins for CRN. Let’s briefly look back at 2022 so we can move forward with new-found momentum into 2023! To start, CRN saw some of the highest utilization rates since we started this journey during the Covid pandemic in July 2020. Just in 2022 alone, we saw a whopping 10,800 […]
Real World Impact | CRN Stories: We can’t afford to lose an entire day’s wages.
“We can’t afford to lose an entire day’s wages to try to find food for our family at the WIC office.” -a family in Garfield County “One of our families needed to take time off to go to the WIC office. Taking a day off for them meant losing wages for the entire day. We […]
Real World Impact | CRN Stories: Sometimes I have to sleep on a park bench.
“Sometimes I have to sleep on a park bench.” -Pregnant mom We worked with a mom who often arrived to care late, had very limited resources, and was suspicious of medical care and our efforts to support her to make good decisions about her pregnancy. During her WIC interview, she told someone that she “sometimes […]
Expanding Peer Support and Recovery Visibility in Mesa County
Jackie Sievers In Mesa County, a powerful collaboration is changing the landscape and visibility of recovery efforts to support people with behavioral health and substance use disorder (SUD) issues. Jackie Sievers (RHC and Director of Community Recourse Network Implementation, Region 19) and Angie Bertrand (Executive Director, Peer 180 RCO (Recovery Community Organization)) have partnered to […]
Addressing Critical Resource Gaps in Our Community: the AHCM Project
In 2017, Rocky Mountain Health Plans (RMHP) and its provider-partners in Western Colorado began participating in the Accountable Health Communities Model (AHCM). RMHP partnered with QHN and CRN to create and administer the AHCM screener beginning in 2018. Although the Model is ending in April, providers can continue to screen using the AHCM screener. The […]
Keeping it Local- The CRN Way
With so many options for care coordination technology solutions on the market, why should a western Colorado organization choose CRN? Let’s look at why a local solution makes the most sense for your organization: Built by this community, for this community. CRN was built after nearly two years of listening to and working with you. […]
Winner of the 2021 QHN User Survey!
Congratulations to Rebecka Parry at Family Physicians of Western Colorado for winning a brand new iPad after taking our 2021 User Survey! We put all 465 names in to a wheel spinner and picked the winner at a QHN staff meeting. On behalf of everyone here at QHN, we want to say a big thank […]
Are You Living in Time Poverty?
“We helped a struggling family get access to housing in one-third of the time it normally takes to place someone.” That’s the success Loren Couch, a case manager at Homeward Bound, recently reported. Loren went on to say, “CRN’s simple electronic referral system not only saves our case managers time and effort but also helped […]
