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COLUMBUS--( BUSINESS WIRE )--AndHealth announced today its partnership with Family Health Services of Darke County, a Community Health Center (CHC) with 5 locations in Western Ohio. Through this partnership, Family Health will now offer Whole-Person Specialty Care and specialty pharmacy services in house, including medication infusions. These services help address the specialty care access crisis that is especially challenging to rural communities, where it is common to drive 1-2 hours for care and to face specialist wait lists that are longer than 6 months. By partnering with AndHealth, Family Health will now offer access to an integrated care model that provides convenient, affordable, and high-quality specialty care for rheumatology, dermatology, and neurology alongside comprehensive support for root causes and Social Drivers of Health (SDOH), such as medically tailored meal delivery, support for behavioral health, sleep, movement, remote monitoring, and continuous access to providers and health coaching. In early 2025 patients will also be able to receive medication infusions and fill their specialty prescriptions directly though Family Health’s specialty pharmacy, where affordable specialty medications are available to all patients. AndHealth upholds ambitious benchmarks for partners and patients, including a 94 Net Promoter Score (NPS) for patient satisfaction. Patients will also no longer face long drives or delays, as nine out of 10 patients have their first visit in under just two weeks. “AndHealth is proud to partner with Family Health, who is a trusted source of quality care in Western Ohio,” said Autumn Glover, SVP of Provider + Community Partnerships at AndHealth. “We believe strongly that by closing specialty care gaps and addressing Social Drivers of Health we can make a major difference in the lives of patients living in Darke County.” Expanding Access Across Ohio Family Health has become a foundational partner of AndHealth in Western Ohio under the Ohio Association of Community Health Centers (OACHC) agreement, which creates a statewide Whole-Person Specialty Care model for CHCs and the patients they serve. In June, OACHC and AndHealth established a master agreement that makes statewide adoption of this critical patient service as cost-effective and efficient as possible by leveraging OACHCs deep expertise, membership scale, and best practices. “I’m heartened to see Family Health Services of Darke County benefit from this strategic partnership and to know they will not only offer best-in-class whole-person specialty care for their existing patients, but also expand the incredible impact they are already making on the Darke county community,” said Julie DiRossi-King, CEO of OACHC. Family Health’s Continued Growth Since 1964, Family Health has delivered high quality and affordable care to the people of Darke County and is increasing its impact through an extensive renovation and expansion at its Greenville campus. Family Health continues its focus on growth and community impact by partnering with AndHealth, which maintains key partner benchmarks like a 25% contribution to topline revenue and a >2:1 patient growth ratio. These financial metrics contribute to the expansion of Family Health’s mission and help fund new services. “We are building for the future of Darke County by investing in key partners that care about our mission as deeply as we do," said Jared Pollick, Executive Director of Family Health. “This is an important step forward in improving access to care in our community so we can reduce the burden that chronic illness has on our neighbors and ensure we can continue to build healthy lives together for years to come.” About Family Health Services Family Health is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Greenville, with additional locations in Arcanum, New Madison, and Versailles, offering a wide range of services, including family medicine, pediatrics, dental, eye care, behavioral health, women’s health, internal medicine, and pharmacy services. Established in 1964, FHS focuses on “building healthy lives together” by working toward positive health outcomes for everyone in the communities it serves. About AndHealth AndHealth helps Community Health Centers (CHCs) radically improve access and outcomes in specialty care and specialty pharmacy for patients, while becoming an even larger and more clinically integrated part of our healthcare system. The Whole-Person Community Care Model provides everything CHCs need to deliver in-house specialty care and specialty pharmacy, built for the unique needs of our medically underserved populations. The model provides CHCs with more patients, more clinical capabilities, alignment with health systems, and sustainable reimbursement and funding that restores the integrity of the patient’s medical home and their critical reimbursement model—both having shifted away from CHCs through external specialty referrals and contract pharmacies. In restoring this integrity, CHCs can stretch scarce federal resources to reach more patients with comprehensive services that weren’t possible before and that are desperately needed by patients—tearing down barriers to promote health equity and demonstrating the power of the CHC movement and its unique model of care. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, AndHealth is led by former CoverMyMeds co-founder and CEO Matt Scantland and the team that built Ohio’s first healthcare technology unicorn, by dedicating their lives to collaborative innovation that improves access for patients. AndHealth is dedicated to helping CHCs become an even larger and more successful part of our healthcare system. AndHealth is supported by key investors including the American Medical Association’s innovation subsidiary, Francisco Partners, and the state of Ohio’s economic development organization.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Cleo published the results of its first Family Health Index ™, a detailed view of the state of working parents and caregivers in the current workforce ecosystem. Cleo's Family Health Index ™ (FHI) has the ability to identify parents and caregivers at greater risk of burnout and in most urgent need for targeted and proactive intervention by measuring and tracking their overall health and wellbeing. What Cleo is seeing today is that the majority of parents and family caregivers are isolated in their care journey leading to a strain on their emotional and physical wellbeing that not only impacts their overall health, but also their engagement in the workforce. Continue Reading The Family Health Index ™ measures seven dimensions of family health: confidence, caregiver burden, self-care, general health, mental health, connectedness, and family support. Cleo's Family Health Index ™ allows Cleo to identify members with specific needs across these dimensions and directly engage them in their caregiving journey before they suffer the consequences of burnout which could be physical (e.g., increase risk for diabetes, cardiovascular disease), psychological (e.g., insomnia, depression) and occupational (e.g., absenteeism, disability leave). Cleo provides targeted interventions to support individuals across employer populations who are already experiencing effects of burnout to directly impact and improve outcomes and employees' state of being. Cleo Introduces the Family Health IndexTM, a data-driven tool to improve the health and wellbeing of working families Tweet this "We need to move from addressing the house on fire problem of caregivers to a proactive model of supporting them before the fire is burning. Supporting the holistic needs of working families is critical to the diversity, retention and overall success of our workforce and businesses - and we have to move beyond narrow views of our working families which we typically see in only our claims data when it's too late to intervene. The FHI is a huge leap forward, giving us and our clients a broader view of what's truly going on in the lives of our working families and thus, allowing us to make targeted interventions and investments to shore them up and improve their health and wellbeing." Cleo CEO, Sarahjane Sacchetti Cleo's end-to-end support of families across all phases of life, allows them to see the different challenges families face and identify the early signs of strain on their physical and emotional health. Families play a critical role in influencing health, and studies have shown that with the right set of family-focused interventions can yield positive health outcomes. Cleo's family centered care platform now brings a proactive, data-driven approach for targeted interventions that focuses on the needs of working families across all phases of life. "With Cleo's global membership, we can now measure the health and wellbeing of families across the diverse set of cultural and ethnic background, family structure, geography, and caregiving situation to identify patterns of needs and provide anticipatory guidance with digital and expert-led interventions." Cleo Chief Clinical Officer, Madhavi Vemireddy, MD The inaugural Family Health Index ™ consisted of 950 participants, both Cleo user and non-user parents and caregivers. The initial findings of results of the Cleo FHI study demonstrated that: 72% of parents and caregivers are feeling burdened, i.e. the perception and feeling of strain or health deterioration, as a result of their parenting and caregiving responsibilities 42% of parents and caregivers are feeling isolated 50% of parents and caregivers lost at least 1 day of work over the last month due to caregiving UCSF Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Cleo's Clinical Advisor, Dr. Seth Bokser, shares his view on Cleo's Family Health Index ™ "As a pediatrician, all of my patients – from well babies to children with chronic disease – are almost entirely dependent on caregivers to thrive. A family's sense of wellness or FHI embraces the multidimensional nature of health. In a snapshot, the FHI can help us celebrate our families' strengths and show us where our caregivers need tangible and measurable support." Cleo's Family Health Index ™ report also showed that parents and caregivers whose company supports them in their caregiving journey are more likely to score higher (i.e. better) on the FHI, further corroborating the relationship that as working family employees are supported by their employers, their overall health and wellbeing are impacted positively. Companies interested in supporting the overall health and wellbeing of their working parent and caregiver population can work directly with Cleo on introducing the Family Health Index ™ at their workplace. To learn more about Cleo and how to implement Cleo's Family Health Index ™ at your workplace, visit . About Cleo Cleo, founded in 2016 by a clinician, has evolved to become the most comprehensive B2B global support network for caregivers, providing end-to-end trustworthy, inclusive support through all stages and phases of life. Cleo is now the leading global family benefits platform trusted by 130+ forward-thinking employers to support families, control costs and attrition, and build inclusive cultures. Cleo families are happier, healthier, and more engaged as they balance their roles at home and at work. Cleo customers experience less attrition rates - Cleo members are 30% less likely to be planning to leave their job than non-Cleo working parents. Cleo is creating a more equitable work world where everyone wins: employees are more supported and therefore more successful at work and home, and employers see their bottom line improved through higher retention, improved health outcomes, and a culture of inclusivity that stands the test of time. Cleo believes in challenging the care status quo, and in doing so envisions a world where caregiver support is more democratized, and all caregivers feel as nurtured and supported as they deserve to be. 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Optimizing federal programs and policies can improve nutritional outcomes in the 1,000-day window—a vital period of development for children WASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The infant and maternal mortality rates in the US are among the highest of any wealthy country, with glaring racial and ethnic disparities. There is significant room to develop a unifying plan for the right policies and systems to improve nutritional security and well-being for vulnerable families. As part of a special series, sponsored by 1,000 Days of FHI Solutions, that will appear in American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) on October 26, 2022. The full series will present the state of science, research needs, and a policy agenda for optimal maternal and child nutrition in the US. Continue Reading Optimizing federal programs and policies can significantly improve nutritional outcomes in the 1,000-day window-a vital period of development for children. Providing optimal nutrition during the first 1,000 days can help influence positive health outcomes for children and help build healthier societies. As part of the series, an essay by Dr. Heather Hamner—a health scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—reveals numerous gaps between the dietary intake of pregnant people, infants, and toddlers and the US Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services' Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020–2025, with race and ethnicity disparities persisting across the spectrum. How do we set about addressing these nutritional deficits? The essay states, "Advancing efforts related to research and surveillance, programs and communication, and dissemination could help positively, and equitably, influence the health and well-being of mothers and children." It also outlines a framework by which current federal policies and programs can be strengthened and how access to and participation in programs can be improved. Another paper in the collection, authored by Blythe Thomas, Initiative Director of 1,000 Days, an initiative of FHI Solutions, points out that a plan that unifies maternal and early childhood nutrition policy and systems has eluded implementation in the US. "Achieving nutrition security during the first 1000 days will ultimately require multisector collaboration, advocacy, and action to fully support families where they live, learn, work, play, and gather," says Thomas, in her editorial. A third paper in the collection—authored by Dr. Kofi Essel, community pediatrician, Children's' National Hospital, discusses the limited focus on nutrition-related medical education as a significant constraint on the ability of pediatricians to deliver sound feeding and nutritional guidance during the first 1,000 days. According to Dr. Essel, "This shift requires a collective effort that activates pediatricians to work in cross-sector collaboratives to influence change alongside industry, researchers, and even early childhood educators." Thus, this journal series brings together papers on these topics during pregnancy, birth, the postpartum period, and early childhood for the US population. To learn more, please visit: Reference Authors: Heather C. Hamner, PhD, MS, MPH, Jennifer M. Nelson, MD, MPH, Andrea J. Sharma, PhD, MPH, Maria Elena D. Jefferds, PhD, Carrie Dooyema, MPH, MSN, RN, Rafael Flores-Ayala, DrPH, MApStat, Andrew A. Bremer, MD, PhD, Ashley J. Vargas, PhD, MPH, RDN, Kellie O. Casavale, PhD, RD, Janet M. de Jesus, MS, RD, Eve E. Stoody, PhD, Kelley S. Scanlon, PhD, RD, and Cria G. Perrine, PhD Blythe Thomas, BS Kofi Essel, MD, MPH Titles of original papers Improving Nutrition in the First 1000 Days in the United States: A Federal Perspective From Evidence to Action: Uniting Around Nutrition in the 1000-Day Window The First 1000 Days—A Missed Opportunity for Pediatricians Journal: American Journal of Public Health DOI links: Contact: Blythe Thomas 703-625-6785 [email protected] SOURCE 1,000 Days