Design, Test & Scale: 7 Steps to Impact
How We Work
CaroNova’s approach to pioneering lasting real-world health solutions is systematic, research-driven, collaborative, and community-minded. We purposely identify opportunities where partners can work together to cultivate, co-design, and catalyze health improvements in the Carolinas through our process.
Cultivate
We work systematically to understand and identify communities’ needs, best practices, and untapped ideas.
Identify needs within a sustained focus area
Prioritize potential interventions and opportunities for system improvement. Establish a theory of change.
Engage those most impacted to inform and refine our opportunity for reform.
Projects Currently At This Stage
Universal Youth Mental Wellness Supports North Carolina
Informed by its Mental Wellness Through Schools work in South Carolina, CaroNova is working with North Carolina state and community leaders (the Plan Steering Committee, or PSC) on a multi-year, multi-stakeholder process to align and strengthen North Carolina’s youth mental health system so that all youth have the mental health and wellness supports they need to thrive.
Co-Design
We engage with payors, providers, patients and community members on the front end of the process, connecting and leveraging resources to create and refine health innovations.
Establish core metrics and potential outcome targets. Design model of care and prepare for sprint testing.
Projects Currently At This Stage
Designing the Innovation in Behavioral Health Model
CaroNova is partnering with the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS) as a neutral third-party convener to support implementation of the CMS Innovation in Behavioral Health (IBH) Model, a multi-year federal initiative designed to strengthen how care is delivered and paid for to support people with behavioral health needs, including substance use disorders.
Optimizing South Carolina’s Behavioral Healthcare Delivery Infrastructure
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Identify sprint sites to test proof of concept. Apply learnings from the sprints to further refine the model. Develop an implementation assistance plan
Projects Currently At This Stage
Comprehensive Palliative Care for Serious Illness Pilots
CaroNova is supporting implementation of a comprehensive care model and payment infrastructure to support people who are seriously ill, including those facing the end of their lives, and their families. Through pilots in the Carolinas, learnings will inform core elements for the CPCSI model, expected patient outcomes, sustainable payment models, and a framework for collaboration between providers and payors.
Universal Youth Mental Wellness Supports South Carolina
Using the Mental Wellness Through Schools (MWTS) Framework, CaroNova and its partners are simplifying, strengthening, and standardizing the foundational elements needed to support youth mental wellness through collaborations with South Carolina.
Replicate proven interventions and establish a business case that benefits those most impacted.
Catalyze
We use evidence to drive care, as well as payment and policy reforms that sustain effective approaches. Then we share and replicate what works.
Communicate evidence from demonstrations. Scale and sustain payment and policy reforms.
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