Making Social Service Supports More Than A Referral

RWJBarnabas Health RWJBH, New Jersey’s most comprehensive academic health care system, with a service region that covers five million of the state’s nine million residents across nine counties, has made the commitment to care management that embraces consumer needs for social supports. In October 2020, Ms. Minus-Vincent led RWJBH’s launch of Health Beyond the Hospital (HBH), a comprehensive program to address social determinants in the care coordination process. The program, which has launched as a pilot with 100,000 consumers served at multiple locations, is expected to be deployed across their entire system in 2022. In her keynote address, Ms. Minus will share details of the program, the barriers HBH is seeking to breakdown and how they plan to scale up the program.