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Health Leads envisions a healthcare system that addresses all patients’ basic resource needs as a standard part of quality care. Health Leads increases access to health and healthcare services by addressing the social and economic factors that contribute to illness. As a service provider, Health Leads is helping health systems to create models for integrating patient social needs into care, using a full spectrum of tools, including the Health Leads’ Desk, in which providers “prescribe” basic resources like food and heat, and well-trained student Advocates stationed in the clinics work side-by-side with patients to “fill” those prescriptions by accessing community resources and public benefits. In 2014, nearly 900 Health Leads Advocates connected over 13,000 patients and their families to the resources they needed to be healthy. More recently, Health Leads has been piloting new solutions (including technology, training, and implementation insights) that will enable health care organizations to address social needs in a range of care settings and with a variety of workforces. In addition to its work as a service provider, Health Leads works with health systems at the leadership level to build momentum in the sector for addressing patient social needs. In this role, Health Leads shines a light on innovation and best practices and participates in critical efforts around evaluation and value measurement. ==History== In 1996, Harvard College sophomore Rebecca Onie co-founded Health Leads (called Project HEALTH until November 2010)〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2010/11/health-leads-nonprofit-anti-poverty/ )〕 with Dr. Barry Zuckerman, Chief of Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.healthleadsusa.org/about/program-staff/national/ )〕 Onie reached out to Zuckerman while serving as an intern at Greater Boston Legal Services, where she was struck by the link between poverty and poor health.〔 〕 During her internship, Onie interviewed mothers of children who had asthma and lung infections, which were triggered by their housing conditions. Onie found that close to 70 percent of the patients at Boston Medical Center are considered poor and the children who were treated at the clinic would later be readmitted to the hospital because nothing was done to address the causes of their illnesses.〔 Onie served as Executive Director for Health Leads while she completed her undergraduate education.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/11/new-frontier-award-presented/ )〕 She then attended Harvard Law School and later worked as an associate at Miner, Barnhill & Galland P.C. in Chicago, where her clients included civil health centers, affordable housing developers, and non-profit organizations. During that time, Onie served as founding Co-Chair of Health Leads’ Board of Directors. She returned to Health Leads as CEO in February 2006.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.healthleadsusa.org/about/program-staff/national/ )〕 Between 2012 and 2014, over 1,000 hospitals requested the Health Leads program. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Health Leads」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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