Strengthening Integration of Health Services and Systems

The Health Equity Report provides insight into how 11 communities conceptualize health equity and how those perspectives influence strategies and approaches to promote health equity.

The Anchor Institutions report provides insight into how anchor institutions in 8 communities are having an impact on community narrative, investment, and measurement around health and well-being, as well as developing innovative solutions to address health equity.

The Rural and Small Communities report focuses on the unique experiences of these communities in addressing health and well-being issues, as well as communicating a narrative about health.

This report describes the changing role of grassroots organizations in addressing community health and health equity; and barriers and facilitators to their engagement and influence locally.

This report explains what frames and influences community narratives related to health, wellbeing, and health equity.

This report discusses how communities are addressing specific housing challenges; and the role of federal and state dollars and policies in shaping housing justice
within Sentinel Communities.

This brief report describes the status of Medicaid expansion in the Sentinel Communities; some impacts of expansion; remaining gaps; and barriers and facilitators to implementing expansion.

This report provides a foundational analysis of what changes are happening in the systems that support health in a community and not simply change at the level of individual organization or within a particular sector. 

The Sentinel Communities project will follow the experiences of nine diverse communities to understand how they are responding to and recovering from COVID-19.