Publications by authors named "Carol Franco-Rowe"

Background: Aligning delivery and financing systems across sectors to create broader systems of care can improve the health and well-being of families experiencing adversities. We aimed to identify structural and relational factors for best practices to achieve successful cross-sector collaboration among home visiting programs in the United States.

Materials And Methods: We used a multiple case study approach to identify best practices for successful cross-sector collaboration between home visitors and other community service providers.

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Interprofessional care coordination within evidence-based prevention programs like Nurse-Family Partnership® (NFP) is necessary to meet family needs and maximize program impact. This study aimed to describe the coordination of families' care in the NFP home visiting context. We used an adapted grounded theory approach and purposively sampled seven NFP sites.

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Objective: Assess changes in cross-sector collaboration between Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) nurse home visitors and community providers in the United States.

Data Sources And Study Setting: We collected primary data via internet-based surveys of all NFP nursing supervisors in the United States in 2018, 2020, and 2021.

Study Design: We conducted a panel survey to measure changes in cross-sector collaboration between NFP nurses and 10 provider types in healthcare and social services.

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