Health begins upstream.

Strategy & Investments

HealthBegins draws on years of direct, real-world experience and nationally recognized expertise to help clients design bold, concrete strategies to move upstream. Through goal-directed strategic consulting and our Upstream Investment Planning tools, we help you refine your upstream strategy’s business case and value propositions, set goals, assign metrics, and track your performance as you improve social drivers of health and equity at all levels.

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Improvement & Transformation

We work with client partners who understand that moving upstream is not just a technical challenge — it’s transformational work. It requires continuous improvement and learning, new ways of working and communicating together, and sustained engagement and commitment from everyone involved in bridging clinical and community approaches to health.

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Training & Education

Since 2012, HealthBegins has been a pioneer in upstream education and training for healthcare professionals. Our practical, skills-oriented educational content and training materials, along with our signature Upstream Quality Improvement approach, are routinely used across the country as part of curricula in universities, medical schools, and other graduate schools and continuing medical education (CME) courses.

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Learning Collaboratives

Drawing on best practices and tools from our entire suite of upstream services, HealthBegins runs and supports a series of national and regional learning collaboratives. Through a shared longitudinal experience, we provide goal-directed coaching, faculty support, and technical assistance to help teams achieve mutually agreed-upon milestones and drive upstream learning, improvements, and transformation.

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  • Strategy & Investments

    HealthBegins draws on years of direct, real-world experience and nationally recognized expertise to help clients design bold, concrete strategies to move upstream. Through goal-directed strategic consulting and our Upstream Investment Planning tools, we help you refine your upstream strategy’s business case and value propositions, set goals, assign metrics, and track your performance as you improve social drivers of health and equity at all levels.

    Learn More

  • Improvement & Transformation

    We work with client partners who understand that moving upstream is not just a technical challenge — it’s transformational work. It requires continuous improvement and learning, new ways of working and communicating together, and sustained engagement and commitment from everyone involved in bridging clinical and community approaches to health.

    Learn More

  • Training & Education

    Since 2012, HealthBegins has been a pioneer in upstream education and training for healthcare professionals. Our practical, skills-oriented educational content and training materials, along with our signature Upstream Quality Improvement approach, are routinely used across the country as part of curricula in universities, medical schools, and other graduate schools and continuing medical education (CME) courses.

    Learn More

  • Learning Collaboratives

    Drawing on best practices and tools from our entire suite of upstream services, HealthBegins runs and supports a series of national and regional learning collaboratives. Through a shared longitudinal experience, we provide goal-directed coaching, faculty support, and technical assistance to help teams achieve mutually agreed-upon milestones and drive upstream learning, improvements, and transformation.

    Learn More

What is upstream health care?

We understand that better health for all begins with equity. And it begins where we live, work, eat, sleep, and play. As pioneers in this movement, we work in solidarity with healthcare and community leaders to translate this knowledge to bold action at all levels — from individual social needs to community-wide social determinants to society-wide structural determinants of health.

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In this TED Talk, HealthBegins’ founder explains the upstream approach to health care and why it’s more relevant than ever.

Expertise
Screening & Referral

Screening & Referral

Screening for social needs requires more than just picking the right questions. HealthBegins works with organizations to build each element of a cohesive screening and referral strategy…

 

Partnership Development

Partnership Development

Work that advances equity and the social drivers of health cannot be accomplished without a constellation of voices and partners. HealthBegins helps clients and partners strengthen working relationships both within and across organizations…

 

Health & Social Care Integration

Health & Social Care Integration

The demand for integrated health care and social services for patients and communities is growing, as value-based payments and place-based community health initiatives accelerate. HealthBegins offers field-tested support to health care, social service, and community-based organizations building these care models together…clarify their goals…

 

 

Structural Transformation & Equity

Structural Transformation & Equity

Value-based care is prompting increased integration of health and social services to provide better care for patients with unmet social needs, and that’s an important start. But we also work further upstream to help improve and transform the health of communities and society…

 

ROI & Community Health Investment

ROI & Community Health Investment

Upstream care is not only a healthcare approach, it’s an investment strategy — one that demands solutions to challenges from developing a business case to designing sustainable financing models…

 

The HealthBegins team are not only thought leaders in the field, but also understand the strategic, tactical, and cultural nuances needed to execute plans.

Dora Barilla, DrPH

VP of Community Health Investment,
Providence St. Joseph Health

HealthBegins has given us context, education, and tools to help launch our work in social determinants of health at the health plan level. Their team has been invaluable.

Jennifer Sayles, MD

Former Chief Medical Officer,
Inland Empire Health Plan

The HealthBegins team brought a powerful approach to addressing social needs in primary care. I especially appreciated the energy and creativity with which they approached our work together.

Lindsay S. Hunt, MEd

Director of Health Systems Transformation,
Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care

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