Brooklyn non-profit receives grant for Social Care Network program

August 7, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

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STATEWIDE — Public Health Solutions, a social services agency with locations in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan, is one of nine organizations statewide granted a total of $500 million in awards over the next three years to create a new Social Care Network program in New York. The program will address health disparities in low-income communities by leveraging federal funding to facilitate Medicaid members’ access to nutritional meals, housing supports, transportation and other social services that can have a significant impact on an individual’s health. The program integrates social care and health care to advance a key initiative under the New York Health Equity Reform waiver amendment. New York State, as part of its Medicaid Section 1115 Demonstration Waiver, is making an historic step forward to create a new model of care that will integrate health care and social care via networks with associated funding. The $500 million program is one component of a $7.5 billion three-year waiver, with nearly $6 billion derived from federal funding.

These Social Care Networks will be core to facilitating the delivery of health-related social needs, including nutrition, housing supports, transportation and case management for eligible Medicaid members, which are essential to addressing health disparities and improving population health.

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