TY - JOUR T1 - Leveraging Integrated Primary Care to Address Patients' and Families' Unmet Social Needs: Aligning Practice with National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Recommendations JF - The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine JO - J Am Board Fam Med SP - 185 LP - 189 DO - 10.3122/jabfm.2022.01.210287 VL - 35 IS - 1 AU - Ellen Poleshuck AU - Kyle Possemato AU - Emily M. Johnson AU - Alicia J. Cohen AU - Colleen T. Fogarty AU - Jennifer S. Funderburk Y1 - 2022/01/01 UR - http://www.jabfm.org/content/35/1/185.abstract N2 - Primary care is well-poised to address unmet social needs that affect health. Integrated primary care is increasingly common and can be leveraged to facilitate identification of practice and clinician-level modifiable characteristics and assist practices to address unmet social needs for patients and families. A recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM)'s consensus report identified 5 critical system-level activities to facilitate the integration of addressing social needs into health care: awareness (ask patients), adjustment (flexible intervention delivery), assistance (intervention to address the social need), alignment (link with community resources), and advocacy (policy change). This article outlines how integrated primary care characteristics, such as routine screening, functional workflows, interprofessional team communication, and patient-centered practices, exemplify the NASEM report's activities and offer robust biopsychosocial tools for addressing social needs. We provide a case to illustrate how these strategies might be used in practice. ER -