What are HRSNs?
Health Related Social Needs (HRSNs) refer to the social and economic needs people experience that affect their ability to maintain their health and well-being. As part of the Medicaid Transformation Project 2.0, our State can invest healthcare dollars in meeting these needs.
By addressing HRSNs, we can advance health equity and reduce health disparities, which are core to CHOICE’s mission. It can also reduce health care utilization and costs.
HRSN Resources
Medical Respite
Medical Respite Care Services are available for eligible clients as a new Medicaid benefit, pending resource and provider availability. For more information about the benefit, who is eligible, a directory of providers, or how to become a contracted provider of services, visit the Medical respite care page on the Washington State Health Care Authority website (button below). Interfaith Works, in partnership with Providence, MultiCare, and CHOICE, has developed a six-bed Medical Respite Program in Olympia to serve medically vulnerable people with the intent to leverage this new Medicaid benefit for sustainability and growth. You can read more about that program in our annual report here.
Housing Services
Housing Services (combine Housing Transition Navigation and Rental Assistance): Housing Transition Navigation and Rent/Temporary Housing services are available for eligible clients as a new Medicaid benefit, pending resource and provider availability. For more information about the benefit, who is eligible, a directory of providers, visit the HRSN housing services page on the Washington State Health Care Authority website.
Medicaid Transformation Project 2.0
For more information about the Medicaid Transformation Project 2.0 waiver and Washington State’s efforts to invest in Health Related Social Needs click here:
Medicaid Transformation Project (MTP) | Washington State Health Care Authority