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COMMUNITY BENEFIT COLLABORATION. Approach to understanding community health challenges, assets and drivers Data elements/sources Summarized story Approach to designing implementation plans Current status of implementation. BACKGROUND.
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COMMUNITY BENEFIT COLLABORATION • Approach to understanding community health challenges, assets and drivers • Data elements/sources • Summarized story • Approach to designing implementation plans • Current status of implementation
BACKGROUND • Kaiser Permanente of Georgia (KPGA) and Grady Health Systems (GHS) partnered with Georgia Health Policy Center to complete CHNA and implementation plan for each system • Considered the specific needs of each community/ service areas; GHS with Fulton and DeKalb service region and KPGA with 30 additional counties (with implications for design of implementation plan) • Alignment with Atlanta Regional Collaborative for Health Improvement (ARCHI) areas of focus was an important consideration in development of implementation plans • Priorities for the Atlanta Region : • Encouraging healthy behaviors • Family pathways to advantage • Coordinated care • Global payment • Capture and reinvest savings • Expand insurance • Innovation fund
GHS SERVICE AREA H 1,000+ 400 - 999 200 - 399 50 - 199 0 - 49 Source: Grady Decision Support
KPGA SERVICE REGION Kaiser Medical Offices Outline of KP-GA Service Region Clayton Meriwether
CRITERIA * ARCHI – Healthy Behaviors, Pathways to Advantage, and Care Coordination
KPGA HEALTH NEEDS CHECKLIST Health Needs Drivers Drug/Alcohol Abuse Educational non-attainment Health Care Inaccessibility Physical Inactivity Poor Nutrition Poverty Tobacco Use • Asthma • Cancer • Diabetes • Heart Disease/Attacks • Hypertension • Low birth weight infants • Mental Health • Obesity • Sexually Transmitted Diseases • Teen Pregnancy
KPGA PRIORITIES The primary foci of activity for the next 3 years: • Overweight and obesity control • Diabetes prevention and management • Heart attack and stroke prevention and management • Access to care • Educational attainment and health literacy
COMMUNITY CARE MANAGEMENT Project Title: Enhancing Patients’ Lives through Community Care Management Piedmont/Kaiser collaboration provided health care and community resource linkages to low-income, non-Medicare Charity Care-eligible patients with complex, chronic diseases at or below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level to reduce avoidable hospital readmissions and emergency room visits by 20%. Impact and Lessons Learned • The project served 352 patients and 324 caregivers (proposed 961 patients and 961 caregivers). Only 3% of program participants were readmitted to the hospital within 60 days. The hospital’s average readmission rate is 11%. • Over 11,000 telephone support calls, 270 home visits, almost 1,000 contacts with physician offices and made transportation arrangements, community resource linkages and provided pharmacy assistance. • Patients’ health was positively impacted as demonstrated by improved PHQ-9(Patient Health Questionnaire) and PAM (Patient Activation Measure). • Clients needed help addressing their social barriers to accessing care. • Telephonic model didn’t work well, so Piedmont switched to a social medicine model of care, which focused on the sociological factors that contribute to illness. • Patients are able to manage their own care when given the necessary tools. • Low-income patients are more quickly labeled “noncompliant”
ATLANTA SAFETY NET COLLABORATIVE • Kaiser Grant for Grady Walk-In Center and Patient Navigator Program • New site on Grady campus for “walk-ins” (Considered FQHC management) • Patient navigators located in the walk-in center, all 4 FQHCs and Grady primary care • 7 navigators • Navigators provided patient education regarding PCMH and scheduled follow up appointments to FQHCs or a Grady clinic • Challenge in getting patients to leave Grady System • History/culture • Co-pays • Impact • While program did not drive down ED volumes as anticipated, ambulatory sensitive conditions decreased as a percent of total volume • Program created a platform for further collaboration among safety net
ATLANTA SAFETY NET COLLABORATIVE • United Way Community Health Worker Program • Building on Navigator Program, the CHW program targets high-utilizers from the emergency department • 5 CHWs • 2 year program • CHW’s trained for home visits and ongoing support outside of clinical visits • With underlying behavioral health conditions of high-utilizers, program was re-directed to focus on patients with high-risk for re-admissions • Continue to have the goal of referring patients without a medical home to the FQHCs and Grady clinics • Impact • One year into the program, initial results indicate reduced re-admission rate for patients assigned a CHW • No determination of impact on patients adopting PCMH
MODEL FOR REPLICATION New Program developed – Sams Care Program Primary goal: To increase access to necessary care for uninsured community members in Piedmont’s service communities, avoiding preventable emergency department re-encounters, building upon successes and lessons learned through Piedmont/Kaiser collaboration Primary activities: • Deploy EPIC into three charitable clinics – Fayette CARE Clinic (Fayetteville), Coweta Samaritan Clinic (Newnan) and Hands of Hope (Stockbridge) • Provide for midlevel staffing to expand clinic capacity • Provide for licensed medical social worker to address socioeconomic issues • Create streamlined ED referral process • Measure and capture patient care outcomes, impact on hospital, impact on community • Establish sustainable funding for program • Deploy “phase two” components – disease management, further ED integration