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Partnerships Improve Population Health
Everyone is talking “population health management,” and many health care organizations are successfully defining it. Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, a rural health care system headquartered in Wyoming's capital, helped establish the Cheyenne Health and Wellness Center in 2005. CHWC partners with the medical center to provide a wide range of health care services: general primary medical care, immunizations, diagnostic screening, family planning and more. Aiming to better engage with its patients with chronic disease, Cheyenne Regional established the state's first safety-net patient-centered medical home in 2011. In two years, this PCMH has improved access and health outcomes and also held down costs. For example, the number of female patients receiving a Pap test increased to 68 percent, up from 19 percent in 2011. Body mass index has been recorded for 100 percent of patients at the time of their visit. CHWC implemented several plan-do-study-act cycles to successfully build chronic disease management programs and streamline processes, including for medical referrals. Its patient population size increased by 17.5 percent, but the average cost per clinic visit decreased by 20.8 percent.
Everyone is talking “population health management,” and many health care organizations are successfully defining it. Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, a rural health care system headquartered in Wyoming's capital, helped establish the Cheyenne Health and Wellness Center in 2005. CHWC partners with the medical center to provide a wide range of health care services: general primary medical care, immunizations, diagnostic screening, family planning and more. Aiming to better engage with its patients with chronic disease, Cheyenne Regional established the state's first safety-net patient-centered medical home in 2011. In two years, this PCMH has improved access and health outcomes and also held down costs. For example, the number of female patients receiving a Pap test increased to 68 percent, up from 19 percent in 2011. Body mass index has been recorded for 100 percent of patients at the time of their visit. CHWC implemented several plan-do-study-act cycles to successfully build chronic disease management programs and streamline processes, including for medical referrals. Its patient population size increased by 17.5 percent, but the average cost per clinic visit decreased by 20.8 percent.
For more information, contact Phyllis Simpson Sherard, PhD, administrator, at Phyllis.Sherard@crmcwy.org. Further information also is available in the HPOE guide “The Role of Small and Rural Hospitals and Care Systems in Effective Population Health Partnerships.”
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