Screening for SDOH using the PRAPARE Toolkit

PRAPARE: The Protocol for Responding to and Assessing Patients’ Assets, Risks, and Experiences (PRAPARE) is a national effort to help health centers and other providers collect and apply the data they need to better understand their patients’ social determinants of health, transform care to meet the needs of their patients, and ultimately improve health and reduce costs. PRAPARE is both a standardized patient risk assessment tool as well as a process and collection of resources to identify and act on the social determinants of health. The PRAPARE Implementation and Action Toolkit is designed to provide interested users with the resources, best practices, and lessons learned to guide implementation, data collection, and responses to social determinant needs.

This webinar is presented in partnership with the Washington State Department of Health.

OBJECTIVES:

• Evidence of the importance of screening for social determinants of health (SDOH), such as housing instability, food insecurity and transportation challenges, particularly as it relates to health equity
• An overview of the PRAPARE Implementation and Action Toolkit modules
• Considerations for adopting SDOH screening in the hospital setting including developing workflow, coding and documenting data and developing referral networks
• Examples of successful hospital adoption of PRAPARE SDOH screening protocols