Publications

SHIFT-Care Challenge awardees were required to propose and conduct evaluations of their initiatives. Some awardees conducted their evaluations themselves while others subcontracted all or a portion of the evaluation work to external firms. The resulting evaluation materials, in combination with quarterly written program updates and quantitative data submitted by the awardees, were used as source material for production of this report.

This report provides an overview of the SHIFT-Care Challenge Investment Program, which supported innovations to address health-related social needs and increase access to timely behavioral health services, with the goal of decreasing the use of costly and avoidable hospital care in Massachusetts.

The HPC’s SHIFT-Care SHIFT-Care Investment Program provided funding for Baystate Medical Center and PHIWM to implement an evidence-based home visit and remediation service that aimed to reduce acute care utilization and out-of-pocket health care costs, and improve the quality of life for people living with asthma.

Video for the the SHIFT-Care Challenge: Opioid Use Disorder Initatives. The SHIFT-Care Challenge invests funds for competitively-selected Massachusetts providers to promote sustainable, transformative care models that reduce avoidable acute care utilization.

Spotlight on efforts to reduce stigma around Opioid Use Disorder in the Emergency Department at UMass Memorial Health Harrington Hospital

Foreword and final report by Brandeis University evaluating the Health Policy Commission's SHIFT-Care Challenge: Medication for Addiction Treatment (MAT) in the Emergency Department

Overview of SHIFT-Care Investment Program: Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) cohort outcomes and successes, featuring nine hospital awardees and their work initiating medication for addiction treatment (MAT) for patients in the ED and supporting ongoing engagement in treatment to improve health outcomes and reduce avoidable acute care utilization.

These profiles provide a high-level snapshot of SHIFT-Care Challenge Investment Program awardees, the care models they implemented, and the goals of their initiatives.

This fact sheet outlines the awardees and the workplan for the SHIFT-Care Challenge.