2021: the year in review
When organizations came together to form ARCHI in 2012, they identified 7 critical issues that, if tackled collaboratively, could significantly improve health outcomes, reduce healthcare costs, and grow the metro Atlanta economy. While all these issues remain essential to health transformation, person-centered care coordination that addresses the socioeconomic needs that are essential to well-being has risen as a central strategy in ARCHI’s work.
ARCHI and its partners seek to Invert the Burden of navigating complex and siloed services in order to build a system of care that meets people where they are, centers individuals and families, and addresses the full range of issues and concerns to not just deliver services, but to support and empower Atlantans to stabilize and ultimately thrive.
Throughout 2021, ARCHI was a thought leader, driver of innovation, and facilitator of systems change to Invert the Burden in Atlanta.
ARCHI BY THE NUMBERS
Organizations ARCHI engaged in 2021.
Organizations that provided financial support to ARCHI and its work.
ARCHI provided updated information on vaccination rates and hospital capacity over social media to over 540 accounts.
The majority of patients in the Community Resource Hub lowered or stabilized their blood pressure and A1c scores.
Patients also achieved success in meeting housing, food, transportation and employment needs.
INVERT THE BURDEN: INNOVATION
Community Resource Hubs
ARCHI partners work collaboratively to address socio-economic needs of patients with chronic conditions. The majority of patients in the Community Resource Hub lowered or stabilized their blood pressure and A1c scores. Patients also achieved success in meeting housing, food, transportation and employment needs.
Partners: Saint Joseph’s Health System/Mercy Care • Grady Health System • Open Doors • Shelters to Shutters • Atlanta Regional Commission • First Step Staffing • Gateway Center • Wholesome Wave • Hope Atlanta • Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation • Atlanta Community Food Bank
Re-designing for Person-Centered Care
ARCHI partners are working with resident advisors and technical experts to re-imagine how metro Atlantans access rental and financial assistance and how health systems connect patients to community care.
Housing continues to be the most significant unmet social determinant of health and the resulting housing instability the most significant driver of poor health outcomes.
Partners: Atlanta Community Food Bank • Atlanta Regional Commission • Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation • Catholic Charities Atlanta • Cobb Community Foundation • Families First • Gateway Center • Georgia Center for Nonprofits • Georgia Charitable Care Network • Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities • Gwinnett Coalition • Grady Health System • HOPE Atlanta • Inspiritus • Kaiser Permanente • Latino Community Fund • Midtown Assistance Center • Open Doors • Open Hand Atlanta • Parents Prosper • Partners for HOME • Quality Care for Children • Saint Joseph’s Health System/Mercy Care • TechBridge • United Way of Greater Atlanta 2-1-1 Contact Center • Urban League of Greater Atlanta • Voices for Georgia’s Children • Zion Hill CDC • Intelegy • TechBridge
COVID-19 Vaccine Support
ARCHI partners came together across a number of opportunities to provide targeted support to accelerate access to vaccines among people of color. This included direct vaccine support, education and outreach and shared learning among partners to rapidly apply innovative and community centered strategies.
Through our partners, ARCHI has accomplished hundreds of vaccinations and 1,000 vaccine registrations. As a collaborative we have reached over 26,000 people through face-to-face discussions, webinars, printed materials, and campaign initiatives.
Partners: Morehouse School of Medicine • Kaiser Permanente • Grady Health System • Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation • Georgia CORE • BLK Cross • WellStar • Humana
Well-being in Atlanta
ARCHI and its partners explored how Atlantans define well-being this far into the pandemic and how it might shape policies and practices moving forward.
Atlantans define well-being as the ability to sustain oneself and affect change in their community. Economic opportunity and empowerment are essential to health for Atlantans.
Partners: Saint Joseph’s Health System/Mercy Care • Grady Health System • Open Doors • Shelters to Shutters • Atlanta Regional Commission • First Step Staffing • Gateway Center • Wholesome Wave • Hope Atlanta • Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation • Atlanta Community Food Bank
Understanding Inequity: 25 Stories Recorded in 2021
ARCHI and its partners are recording the stories of individuals living in Atlanta who continue to encounter persistent health and racial inequities as they seek care and support. These stories will guide multiple projects and ongoing learning opportunities in 2022.
Partners: Saint Joseph’s Health System/Mercy Care • Grady Health System • Open Doors • Shelters to Shutters • Atlanta Regional Commission • First Step Staffing • Gateway Center • Wholesome Wave • Hope Atlanta • Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation • Atlanta Community Food Bank
INVERT THE BURDEN: THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Publications
ARCHI Partners authored two Op-Eds
appearing in The Atlanta Journal Constitution
and Georgia Health News.
Podcasts
ARCHI’s work was featured
on Closer Look and Political Rewind.
Webinars
ARCHI’s work on Social
Determinants and Health Equity
was featured in three national
webinars with National Center on
Complex Care, American Hospital
Association, and SPARCC.
ARCHI and Morehouse School
of Medicine engaged over 400
Atlantans in three sessions about
the COVID-19 vaccine and
outreach in Georgia.
Over 200 people learned more
about the intersection of health
and policing with ARCHI, Annie E
Casey and the Partnership for
Southern Equity.
INVERT THE BURDEN: FACILITATION
Community Resource Hubs
ARCHI partners work collaboratively to address socio-economic needs of patients with chronic conditions. The majority of patients in the Community Resource Hub lowered or stabilized their blood pressure and A1c scores. Patients also achieved success in meeting housing, food, transportation and employment needs.
Partners: Saint Joseph’s Health System/Mercy Care • Grady Health System • Open Doors • Shelters to Shutters • Atlanta Regional Commission • First Step Staffing • Gateway Center • Wholesome Wave • Hope Atlanta • Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation • Atlanta Community Food Bank
Re-designing for Person-Centered Care
ARCHI partners are working with resident advisors and technical experts to re-imagine how metro Atlantans access rental and financial assistance and how health systems connect patients to community care.
Housing continues to be the most significant unmet social determinant of health and the resulting housing instability the most significant driver of poor health outcomes.
Partners: Atlanta Community Food Bank • Atlanta Regional Commission • Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation • Catholic Charities Atlanta • Cobb Community Foundation • Families First • Gateway Center • Georgia Center for Nonprofits • Georgia Charitable Care Network • Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities • Gwinnett Coalition • Grady Health System • HOPE Atlanta • Inspiritus • Kaiser Permanente • Latino Community Fund • Midtown Assistance Center • Open Doors • Open Hand Atlanta • Parents Prosper • Partners for HOME • Quality Care for Children • Saint Joseph’s Health System/Mercy Care • TechBridge • United Way of Greater Atlanta 2-1-1 Contact Center • Urban League of Greater Atlanta • Voices for Georgia’s Children • Zion Hill CDC • Intelegy • TechBridge
Systems Assessment and Change
18 organizations worked with ARCHI to assess their own processes and found great opportunity for change because on average:
• They have to use 3-4 systems to collect and process client information
• They spend 60% of their time on administrative work
• Current processes were described as time consuming, confusing, inefficient and causing burnout
Partners: Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities • United Way of Greater Atlanta • Gateway Center • Families First • Atlanta Regional Commission • Midtown Assistance Center • Gwinnett Coalition • Zion Hill CDC • HOPE Atlanta • Partners for HOME • Latino Community Fund • Open Hand Atlanta • Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation • Saint Joseph’s Health System/Mercy Care • Catholic Charities Atlanta • Atlanta Community Food Bank • Inspiritus • Grady Health System
Real-Time COVID-19 Learning
ARCHI partners meet regularly to share successes and challenges as they work to reach out to populations particularly vulnerable during the pandemic. This real-time learning was and continues to be essential in the dynamic environment of the pandemic.
Partners maintained a consistent focus on populations with low vaccination rates including communities of color. Together they were able to explore together and share communication and outreach techniques, local and national resources to build community trust and increase vaccination rates.
Partners: BLK Cross • WellStar • GA CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort) • Grady Health System • Humana • Kaiser Permanente • CHRIS 180 • Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation • Metro Atlanta Ministerial Alliance • Purpose Built Communities • Amani Women Center • Latino Community Fund • Saint Joseph’s Health System/Mercy Care
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