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Health Storm: How can you tell if primary care is effective?
In this clip from The Health Storm, Hope Glassberg discusses the challenge of measuring the value of primary care without access to meaningful hospital admission data and the need for data portability.
Throw health centers a lifeline by replacing outdated payment model
At this crucial moment before a second wave of COVID-19 crests and crashes, policymakers should confront a significant payment problem brewing within our primary-care safety net that, if unaddressed, threatens care for millions of Americans.
Growing our Own: Cultivating the Next Generation of Primary Care Workers in Community Health Centers
In communities across the country, staggering unemployment rates and failing infrastructure go hand in hand with significant healthcare challenge
Advancing Integration of Behavioral Health into Primary Care: A Continuum-Based Framework
The need to bring high-quality treatment and management of depression, anxiety, and other common behavioral health conditions into primary care has been well documented, but for small to medium-size practices the complex models that are the standard for integrating medical and behavioral care are often beyond their resources.
Accountable Care Organizations: A Case Study in the Use of Care Coordination: Montefiore Medical Center
This chapter traces the history of Montefiore’s Accountable Care Organization (ACO) development including care management experience prior to the Affordable Care Act, administrative structure, and the use of care management as a central element in its ACO.
The ABCs of ACOs
The Affordable Care Act hastened the emergence of a new healthcare delivery and payment model called Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs).