Sustainability

Grant Work Plan Objective 9 Guidance

This guidance document outlines the requirements for PHMI Grant Work Plan Objective 9: submission of a PHM Sustainability Plan. It provides detailed instructions for documenting sustainability strategies, leadership roles, action steps, spread planning, operational considerations, and approaches for monitoring long-term implementation.
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Conditions for Hard Wiring Worksheet

Use this editable worksheet to assess whether a population health management strategy is ready to be hard wired into routine practice and sustained over time. The worksheet guides health center teams through key conditions for sustainability, including credibility, durability, goal alignment, organizational fit, efficiency, local control, staff benefit, measurability, managed care plan alignment, and leadership involvement.
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Sustainability Affinity Group Session – October 23, 2025

This session highlighted emerging sustainability strategies and included a bright spot from Alliance Medical Center on integrating PHMI sustainability strategies into its 2026–2028 strategic plan. Participants discussed how to continue drafting their sustainability plans, engage staff and leaders, and connect sustainability work to a broader culture of population health.
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Sustainability Affinity Group Session – October 21, 2025

This session summarized emerging sustainability strategies, small group themes, and peer reflections. Participants explored how storytelling can support sustainability planning, discussed what they were learning while seeking input from staff, clinicians, and leaders, and identified support needed to continue drafting their plans.
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Sustainability Plan Outline

This planning outline provides a structured framework for documenting PHM sustainability strategies, including leadership sponsorship, action steps, funding considerations, risks, mitigation strategies, and clinical outcome alignment. The guide supports CHCs in developing actionable sustainability plans for 2026 and beyond.
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Sustainability Presentation to Leaders Template

This customizable slide deck template helps PHMI teams present proposed sustainability strategies to health center leadership. The template includes agenda slides, discussion prompts, sustainability planning guidance, storytelling examples, and frameworks for aligning PHM strategies with organizational priorities and clinical outcomes.
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October 2025 Sustainability Leadership Call Summary

This summary captures key insights and peer recommendations shared during the October 2025 PHMI Senior Leadership Call on sustainability planning. Topics included building a culture of population health, prioritizing PHM strategies, integrating PHM into strategic planning, using data and storytelling to support sustainability, and strengthening leadership engagement.
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Sustaining Population Health Strategies: The Leadership Challenge

These presentation slides from the October 2025 PHMI Senior Leadership Call examine the leadership role in sustaining population health management strategies. Topics include selecting PHM strategies to sustain, embedding PHM into strategic planning processes, aligning sustainability with value-based care, and supporting long-term organizational change.
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