Partnering with communities to help achieve health equity
UHC Catalyst pairs community need with data insights to empower change
Understanding health challenges and identifying care gaps in the community is essential to helping the health care system work better for everyone. Did you know that 80% of a person’s health care is determined by factors outside a doctor’s office?1 UnitedHealthcare CatalystTM focuses on the communities where our members live in an effort to advance health equity, build on existing care systems and improve outcomes.
Our goal is to achieve successful outcomes by:
- Building trust, connecting and collaborating with community partners
- Creating repeatable, long-term solutions for high-priority community health needs with existing community resources
- Providing a large-scale, visible and actionable approach to help solve health inequities
- Informing future health care strategies by recognizing that “health” is as much social as it is clinical
Understanding communities’ biggest health needs
UnitedHealthcare Catalyst brings together detailed community health data analysis and voices in the community to help understand the highest-priority health challenges. Collective input from community leaders and community members guides the Catalyst approach in determining the most important health and social needs to measure and address.
UnitedHealthcare Catalyst areas of focus
Some of the focus areas selected by our partner communities include:
Building solutions to help improve health outcomes
After data analysis and community listening, the next step is to work toward an achievable, sustainable solution for the community health need. These are the steps it takes to get there.
- Connect with community partners to collectively develop the initiative. It’s important that everyone’s voice is heard, and the decision making is a shared effort.
- Define clear roles, responsibilities and measurable outcomes. That way, we can drive real change and make sure our collective efforts support both partner goals and community needs.
- Measure and refine. We track success by measuring outcomes. This helps refine the approach if needed and provide sustainable solutions.
Organizing in communities across the country
One of UnitedHealthcare Catalyst’s guiding principles is that we can do more together than we ever could apart. We collaborate with over 100 different community-level partners in more than 25 diverse communities, which are home to 5.5 million UnitedHealthcare members. These include public housing agencies, federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), faith-based organizations, academic institutions, community-based organizations (CBOs) and more.
Learn how our collaborative efforts are helping a few of our communities drive positive change.