Population Health
The Community Care Cooperative is raising $5 million to provide telehealth capabilities to local health centers.
Alongside data analytics and employee apps, both offerings focus on facilitating coronavirus testing services among employees.
LAPTN has helped its clinicians produce tens of millions of dollars in cost savings and meet numerous quality-improvement targets.
Before the three-phase plan can be executed, hospitals should ensure adequate screening and testing capacity as well as access to PPE.
Citing historical injustices, the hospitals pledged action to combat a health system rife with racial inequities.
CMS Administrator Seema Verma promotes value-based payment models to address race, ethnic disparities and the social determinants.
Communicating information and building health system capacity are among the cornerstones of safe economic reopenings.
Private entities have taken up the slack in the U.S., but the dearth of testing is still hampering the mitigation of the pandemic.
Low-resource facilities and those with high concentrations of socioeconomically challenged residents experience poorer outcomes.
Partnerships with communities can help minimize care gaps, says Dr. Garth Graham of CVS.