Building Up and Building Out: Milestones Achieved in 2024 Provide Solid Foundation for New ReHealth Collaborative President
By Henderson Brown, Interim President
The inaugural transaction of ReHealth Collaborative’s Family Focused Recovery (FFR) Fund is an inflection point for our organization, for our collaborator – Volunteers of America Southeast Louisiana – and for me in my role as Interim President.
We were thrilled to see our partners at Volunteers of America Southeast Louisiana (VOA SELA) break ground on their new building in October. And we look forward to the New Orleans-based program opening its doors in 2025, and rapidly scaling up to serve 120 pregnant and parenting mothers with substance use disorder (and their families) with wrap around family focused treatment options.
It has been my pleasure to serve as Interim President of ReHealth Collaborative since January 2025. During this significant and transformative period for ReHealth, the ReHealth Board of Directors, leaders of Volunteers of America Southeast Louisiana, dedicated and focused Quantified Ventures team members, and lending professionals at a New-Orleans-based bank and a local Community Development Financial Institution negotiated terms of three loans that will support renovation of the residential facility from which VOA SELA will serve deserving families. ReHealth’s loan makes funds available to support the facility renovation and provides VOA SELA with the option to deploy funds to support program operations after the FFR program launches.
Funds advanced by ReHealth to support program operations will be secured by revenue generated by contracts between VOA SELA and Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) in which the MCOs will pay for positive medical outcomes, such as improved neonatal experience for newborns whose mothers receive treatment and secondary acute treatment avoided by mothers (e.g., no residential detox or emergency room visits related to SUD within 6 and 12 months after discharge).
The commitment, partnership, and perseverance it took to bring this initial transaction to fruition required each party to focus on creating economic incentives specifically targeted to benefit the populations served. It also required disparate parties to come together to shepherd a shared vision into reality.
I am confident that ReHealth’s work will not stop with this transaction. There are at least 3 other potential Family Focused Recovery Fund transactions in early stages of discussions with VOA affiliates in other states. Quantified Ventures also is actively engaged with its related work to shape value-based contracts between the VOA affiliates and in-market MCOs that will generate outcomes-based payments tied that are to improvements in the client’s recovery outcomes and infant health.
While impactful FFR projects are both underway and in the pipeline, the members of the ReHealth board have recognized the need for ReHealth to grow internal capacity. That is why ReHealth is now hiring a President to lead and navigate the organization through its next evolution.
ReHealth’s new President will join an organization on solid financial footing and be presented with the opportunity to shape the current pipeline and develop new funds in collaboration with board members and organizational partners. These individuals and organizations are uniformly dedicated to working with local community-based organizations to improve the health of persons within the communities they serve.
In this way, ReHealth Collaborative will build up and build out its efforts to attract and deploy capital to non-profit organizations that drive outsized impact.
