Current and past issues of the ACT Center Newsletter and MacColl Center Newsletter.
ACT Center Newsletter
The ACT Center shares new findings, resources, and stories in our free quarterly newsletter. You can sign up to receive our newsletter here and view featured content from our most recent issue below and in the sidebar. PDFs of our past issues are also available on this page.
Our most recent newsletter: Spring 2025
Our first newsletter of 2025 shares news from our work with the Washington Association for Community Health (WACH) on a learning collaborative aimed at improving diabetes care and outcomes in community health centers statewide. Other news highlights work from our Learning Health System Program within Kaiser Permanente Washington — where we're focused on improving care for members with conditions ranging from dementia to asthma to substance use disorder.
Recapping highlights from our collaborations with Kaiser Permanente and community organizations in 2025 — and expressing gratitude for our many partnerships.
How Kaiser Permanente works with SONNET and the ACT Center to address members’ social needs, insights on the future of AI and the primary care workforce, and more!
Announcing 3 new scholars for the LHS E-STAR training program, along with several new papers on various aspects of social health, including links to cost and utilization.
Improving pain care by restoring patient-clinician trust, understanding how social health is linked to intersectional identities, and more highlights from our recent findings.
Introducing the Toolkit for Managing Persistent Pain, bridging the gap between research and care delivery, and a call for stronger focus on health equity in learning health systems training.
Patient and family engagement, clinical innovation opportunities for family practice residents, reducing missed visits with predictive analytics, and more.
Transforming behavioral health services in Oregon, patient-centered care to improve opioid safety for people with persistent pain, new findings and resources to advance social health, and more.
