Social Needs Screening Toolkit

Health care leaders and front-line clinicians have long recognized the connection between unmet basic resource needs – e.g. food, housing, and transportation – and the health of their patients. Indeed, research suggests that more than 70% of health outcomes are attributable to the social and environmental factors that patients face outside of the clinic or hospital.

 

Health Leads is a social enterprise that envisions a healthcare system that addresses all patients’ basic resource needs as a standard part of quality care. For 20 years, Health Leads has worked with leading healthcare organizations to tackle social co-morbidities by connecting patients to the community-based resources they need to be healthy – from food to transportation to healthcare benefits. Health Leads is committed to leveraging its tools, expertise and direct services to change what “counts” as healthcare – and accelerate the leadership, best practices, incentives and research required to improve the health and well-being of patients.