Phase 1.1 – Designing the Roadmap

With the landscape assessment complete, a Design Committee was formed, and a new player joined the effort—HealthBegins, a California-based consultancy. It was February of 2020. Shortly after the new phase of work began, the pandemic hit. The pandemic both heightened the urgency surrounding NMFIH and made it more difficult to address those concerns. 

Months passed as the world struggled to cope with a new reality. Remote meetings became the norm, and work resumed on a report generated by HealthBegins entitled, A Path Forward: A Roadmap to Improve Social Determinants of Health Across South Carolina. 

This report—and then the entirety of the effort— came to be called, “The Roadmap.” 

The report summarized the findings of the landscape assessment and the recommendations of the Design Committee in the hope of turning talk into action. While there were a wide range of challenges to be faced, the pandemic remained a massive hurdle that threatened to put an indefinite pause on the effort.