June 1, 2023
Guide to Using the Accountable Health Communities Health-Related Social Needs Screening Tool: Promising Practices and Key Insights
Click HERE to download “A Guide to Using the Accountable Health Communities Health-Related Social Needs Screening Tool: Promising Practices and Key Insights” from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
In this document, CMS describes the health-related social needs (HRSN) Screening Tool from the Accountable Health Communities (AHC) Model and share practices for universal screening.
HRSNs are individual level, adverse social conditions that negatively impact a person’s health or health care. HRSNs are distinguished from social determinants of health — the structural and contextual factors that shape everyone’s lives — and can be identified by the health care system and addressed in partnership with community resources.
Identifying and addressing HRSNs can have many benefits, including improvements to a person’s health and reduced health care spending.
Accountable Health Communities Health-Related Social Needs Screening Tool