Dawn Alley, Ph.D.
Head of Scale, IMPaCT Care
Webinar
Virtual 1-2 pm ET
Care management & redesign Data analysis & integration Strengthening ecosystems of care
In November 2024, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) released the third and final evaluation report for the Accountable Health Communities (AHC) Model.
AHC was a large-scale experiment in social needs screening and navigation, covering 28 communities and more than one million individuals across the country. It tested whether screening Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries in health settings for social needs and deploying community health worker (CHW) navigators to connect them to resources would improve health outcomes and reduce costs.
Though the national findings showed reduced emergency department visits, inpatient admissions, and total Medicare and Medicaid expenditures for people who received AHC navigation, they did not show increased connections to community services or resolutions of social needs.
So, what happened? Where do we go from here? Join us for a national webinar with Dawn Alley, former Chief Strategy Officer at CMMI and Head of Scale at IMPaCT Care, alongside the Camden Coalition’s Marisol Caban, who supervised AHC navigation in South Jersey, and Dawn Wiest, who led data collection and analysis for the Camden Coalition’s AHC site. The webinar will be moderated by our President and CEO Kathleen Noonan. We will explore the context of the AHC Model and how it was developed, what implementation looked like on the ground, and implications of the findings for care providers, payers, and policymakers.
Head of Scale, IMPaCT Care
Dawn Alley, Ph.D., is Head of Scale at IMPaCT Care, a public benefit corporation scaling evidence-based community health worker programs to improve health equity and drive health care value. She has a 20-year career of leadership in population health research, health policy, and health care delivery in both the public and private sector. She has held federal leadership roles including Chief Strategy Officer at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Senior Advisor to the U.S. Surgeon General, and Executive in Residence at ARPA-H. She has also held executive roles as President of Decision Support at CareBridge Health, a Medicaid value-based provider, and Head of Healthcare Innovation at Morgan Health, JPMorgan Chase’s business unit focused on innovation in employer-sponsored insurance. Dr. Alley received her PhD from the University of Southern California and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. She has published more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and is affiliate faculty at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health.
Associate Director of Care Management Initiatives, Camden Coalition
Since joining the Camden Coalition in 2016, Marisol Caban has overseen the management of various projects under the Care Management & Redesign Initiatives, MLP and the Camden Core Model. She previously served as a leader of the Accountable Health Communities program, which addressed significant gaps between clinical treatment and community services for Medicare and Medicaid participants by using a social determinants of health screening.
Marisol holds a Certificate in Healthcare Leadership from Duke Corporate Education in addition to a B.A. in General Studies from Rowan University.
President and CEO, Camden Coalition
Kathleen Noonan is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Camden Coalition, a coalition of health and social services providers, community partners, advocates and residents committed to elevating the health of patients facing the most complex medical and social challenges. Throughout her career, Kathleen has worked extensively at the intersection of health and social welfare issues. Prior to joining the Coalition, Kathleen was founding co-director of PolicyLab at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), a research center aimed at ensuring that clinical research informed real-world health care and public health policy priorities and solutions for vulnerable children, their caregivers and families. She has served as faculty in the University of Pennsylvania Masters of Public Health Program, and as adjunct faculty in the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Division of Pediatrics. She received her BA from Barnard College, and her law degree from Northeastern University School of Law.
Director of Research and Evaluation, Camden Coalition
Dawn Wiest directs research and evaluation activities at the Camden Coalition. She works alongside community, clinical, and academic partners to design and execute knowledge generating projects aimed at improving services for individuals living with complex health and social needs. Her work integrates both qualitative and quantitative methods and data, including cross-sector data to expand understanding of how organizations can work together to strengthen communities.
Care management & redesign Community & consumer engagement SDOH & health equity
Community & consumer engagement Data analysis & integration Strengthening ecosystems of care Measurement & evaluation SDOH & health equity