WHAT DOES AHI DO?

AHI staff functions as in-house collaboration and project management specialists who coordinate all the moving pieces of integration projects and serve as the centralized planning and strategy hub to help drive highly complex, high priority projects to completion.

	FACILITATE COORDINATION EFFORTS AMONG THE HEALTH DEPARTMENTS AND STAKEHOLDERS Coordination includes, but is not limited to, convening integration teams comprised of staff from the Health Departments and other key partners; developing planning tools, such as process maps and project timelines; and providing foundational support, such as meeting facilitation and administrative support.
CONDUCT IN-DEPTH ANALYSES TO SUPPORT THOUGHTFUL, COLLABORATIVE DECISION MAKING AHI staff works with a diverse group of stakeholders and integration teams to ensure alignment across the Health Departments on cross-departmental services and programs.  AHI seeks to guide comprehensive solutions by first understanding the problem that needs to be solved, followed by intensive examination of potential solutions.  Examples include, conducting landscape analyses; holding focus groups; completing root cause analyses; and researching policy impacts and legislation to understand gaps and opportunities to reduce barriers to care and improve health outcomes for County residents.
	FACILITATE COLLABORATIVE DISCUSSIONS AND DECISION MAKING AMONG THE HEALTH DEPARTMENTS AHI staff facilitates Health Department collaboration to design strategies for service integration and implementation.