Our Services

Wellness Equity Alliance (WEA) partners with local governments and health departments, national alliances, and community based organizations to close gaps in health care access for historically marginalized populations. Learn more about WEA’s collaborative partnerships combining health extension services, technical assistance, grant-funded programs, and outreach expertise to support community health and commerce.

Improved Access To Healthcare

Our nimble mobile and pop-up model is designed to minimize access barriers for historically marginalized communities affected by the social determinants of health.

WEA meets patients where they are—beyond regular office hours and outside of typical brick & mortar locations.

 

Data-Driven Approach

WEA sees a data-driven approach as critical to creating effective and cost-efficient interventions. Shown below is a heat map provided by our data partner RS21. The red zones indicate high foot traffic areas derived from cell phone data, while blue denotes low traffic areas. From this, WEA identified the area in black as the most viable location within the target area for a highly effective intervention. This is an example of the hyper localization that WEA can achieve in identifying target communities and where best to establish intervention sites.

WEA partners with RS21 to develop block-level insights into the health of communities, allowing targeted interventions to achieve maximal impact.

Public Health Extension Services

We offer end-to-end clinical public health extension services tailored to those affected by the social determinants of health including:

 

    • Behavioral System Analyses, including:

      • 360° community health assessment

      • Super utilizer analyses

      • Triple AIM approach

      • Connection to clinical services

    • Design and operation of school-based behavioral health centers.

    • Treatment of substance use disorder (SUD) using individual and group-based therapy with mobile medication-assisted treatment (MAT) models.

    • Innovative clinical service models for complex populations, leveraging several technical services:

      • Mobile units

      • Remote patient monitoring (RPM)

      • Telehealth

    • Using the following operational models:

      • Street Medicine

      • Community Paramedicine (Mobile Integrated Health)

    • Influenza and other emerging communicable diseases

    • HIV testing and prevention (e.g., PrEP)

    • STI testing and treatment

    • Syndromic surveillance

    • Travel Medicine

    • Testing

    • Vaccinations

    • Therapeutics

    • Risk reduction and community health education

    • National Community Health Worker (CHW) task forces helping to:

      • Advise systems on how to improve models that address health equity

      • Train and develop local CHW working groups

    • Health education campaigns tailored to vulnerable communities in partnership with local CBOs.

  • Hyperlocal, street-level health data solutions are synthesizing 80+ data sets related to social vulnerability, health equity metrics, and health outcomes that can be used to conduct gap analyses and targeted clinical interventions.

Population Health Advisors

Government regulations (e.g., HRSA, CMS) are now requiring/incentivizing health systems (e.g., ACOs, FQHCs, hospitals) to address the SDoH. Some examples are as follows:

  • In 2023, CMS will launch the ACO Realizing Equity, Access, Community Health (REACH) Model, which will institute new health equity benchmarks for health systems.

  • Several states are incentivizing managed care organizations to address the SDoH (e.g. CalAIM)

 

The Triple Aim approach guides our team of public and population health experts. We provide comprehensive plans to meet these new requirements, including:

  • Optimizing existing health equity plans

  • Designing new plans to address health inequities compliant with the CMS REACH model.

  • Risk sharing

  • Community needs assessments

  • Gap analyses

  • Our public health extension services can augment clinical services where gaps exist.