Tee Thomas reflects back on 2024, her first year as CEO and QV's 10th year of breaking through barriers to drive impact for people and planet. These select 2024 highlights are emblematic of the passion, expertise, and collaborative spirit that define QV and our partners.

By blending philanthropic donations, public grants, and private (sometimes concessionary) capital, Community Based Organizations (CBOs) can build a capital stack that enables program growth, retains mission fidelity, and aligns all parties around achievement of beneficial societal outcomes. In New Orleans, QV worked with partners to develop an innovative capital model to launch and sustain a Family Focused Recovery program.

We outline an approach to enable Managed Care Plans and Community Based Organizations to work creatively and collaboratively toward mutually-beneficial member health outcomes. In this framework, sustainability, often a long-term goal for the partnership, instead becomes a central tenet from the outset.  

The time is ripe for community-based service providers to expand their partnerships, programs, and impact through a focus on the value they create for the community and individuals as opposed to the cost associated with service provision. This blog provides an overview of three health sector payment trends and the related opportunities for community-based service providers to enhance their impact by diversifying and expanding revenue.

The $55 billion in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding for water infrastructure presents an opportunity to demonstrate that these investments truly make human lives better. We recommend a a 5-step approach to effectively deploy BIL funds to communities that need it most and to demonstrate 3 basic outcomes: improved health; community resilience, and affordability.

Dorvie provides recurring home services that solve the logistics of life, all for one simple price. Quantified Ventures’ newest company serves the 90% of older adults who plan to stay in their homes as they age.

Rates of substance use disorder (SUD) and drug overdose deaths have steadily climbed during the last decade. For women of childbearing age and their children, this epidemic has had especially damaging implications.

During the past several years, Quantified Ventures and Humana have developed a national partnership to build value-based payment models and innovative financing solutions to address social determinants of health (SDOH), advance health equity, and improve health outcomes in communities around the country. We recently caught up with Abbie Gilbert, Associate Director of the Office of Health Affairs & Advocacy at Humana, and Alison Rein, Vice President of Health and Human Services at Quantified Ventures, to learn more about the partnership.

This resource offers providers, state and federal Medicaid leadership, policymakers, and managed care organizations specific partnership strategies and demystifies the financial solutions that ensure continuity and quality of care for patients with long-term health and housing needs.

To provide an integrated continuum of services to effectively support individuals experiencing homeless and housing insecurity we must develop a systems-level approach that enables us to to both finance and deliver services like medical respite, legal aid, eviction diversion, shelter diversion, housing navigation, and wraparound services. To get there, policy change must be coupled with innovative payment mechanisms that incentivize coordinated approaches to homeless services.

Investment in social determinants like low-income housing for those experiencing homelessness or meal services for those experiencing food insecurity are proven interventions that deliver a dual return: they address the needs of the individual and they reduce inappropriate healthcare spending.

With a $5MM seed contribution from Humana, we are establishing the first-of-its-kind Family Focused Recovery (FFR) outcomes fund to sustainably scale an innovative Volunteers of America program model that serves mothers with substance use disorder and their children.