"Mount Sinai St. Luke's Seeks To Document Nonmedical Problems That Impact Patient Health" - Caroline Lewis
As providers in New York confront the impact of homelessness, food insecurity and other social issues on their patients' health, one of their biggest challenges is assessing and documenting their patients' nonmedical needs. A pilot program launched in the fall at Mount Sinai St. Luke's aims to screen for such social determinants of health. "The innovation is not that social determinants of health exist," said Theresa Soriano, MD, senior vice president for care transitions and population health at Mount Sinai St. Luke's. Rather, it's to systematize "how we collect a broader set of social determinants that we can then quantify and use to characterize a population in a meaningful way." Collecting more comprehensive data will eventually make it easier to get reimbursement from payers or funding from other sources to address patients' needs, Dr. Soriano added.
- Theresa Soriano, MD, Professor, Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Senior Vice President, Care Transition and Population Health, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s
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