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Accountable Health Communities Health-Related Social Needs Screening Tool

CMS. "Accountable Health Communities (AHC) Health-Related Social Needs Screening Tool."

Key findings used in wiki

  • Community-level SDOH screening approach focused on actionable social needs
  • Housing instability questions directly applicable to caregiver populations (maps to GiveCare P3)
  • Food insecurity screening transfers to caregiver contexts (maps to GiveCare P4)
  • Utility difficulty items apply to caregiver households (maps to GiveCare P3/P4)
  • Interpersonal safety domain — does not capture caregiver-specific relational dynamics
  • No care navigation or legal domain (gap addressed by GiveCare's P5)