Date & Time
Monday, September 29, 2025, 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location Name
Platinum Breakout 5
Session Type
Breakout Session
Description
Dive into the transformative power of collaboration in healthcare with Arizona’s CommunityCares network. This session will showcase how strategic partnerships between AHCCCS, Contexture, and CBOs have revolutionized health data ecosystems and enhanced care quality. With a 45% growth in 2024, adding 900 new programs and processing 77,000 referrals, CommunityCares exemplifies sustainable scalability. Discover how aligned incentives and technology can optimize healthcare impact and learn best practices for replicating this success in your region.
Presentation Learning Objectives
1). Understand the Impact of Strategic Partnerships: Learn how the collaboration between Arizona’s Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), Contexture, and community-based organizations (CBOs) has advanced health data ecosystems and promoted health equity.
2). Explore Models of Sustainable Growth: Discover how consistent, strategic growth across communities has enabled CommunityCares to scale effectively and maintain high-resolution rates despite a rapid increase in cases.
3). Identify Best Practices for Replication: Learn best practices and key strategies from Arizona’s model that can be applied to other states and regions to integrate social care into healthcare systems and advance value-based care.
2). Explore Models of Sustainable Growth: Discover how consistent, strategic growth across communities has enabled CommunityCares to scale effectively and maintain high-resolution rates despite a rapid increase in cases.
3). Identify Best Practices for Replication: Learn best practices and key strategies from Arizona’s model that can be applied to other states and regions to integrate social care into healthcare systems and advance value-based care.
Speakers
Sebastian Blackwell, Customer Success Executive, Unite Us
Alex Demyan, MSW, Vice President, Government Affairs - AZ, Contexture
Alex Demyan, MSW, Vice President, Government Affairs - AZ, Contexture