Blog posts tagged "Care Coordination"

America’s Most Valuable Care: Discovering High-Value Primary Care Providers

Blog - June 16, 2017
Tara DeBach

Stanford University’s Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC), with support from the Peterson Center on Healthcare, set out to identify common attributes found among high-performing primary care organizations. CERC reviewed national quality and cost data, and has identified 11 primary care organizations that are delivering exceptional value to their patients. Most importantly, they have key features in common, which can serve as a blueprint for others to achieve high performance.

First Inter-professional Student Run Free Clinic to Open Late 2017

Blog - March 22, 2017
Emileigh Canales, MPH

Student-run free clinics have a long-standing history of helping meet the health needs of underserved populations while also enriching students’ professional education. With this in mind, students from Portland State University (PSU), Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), and Oregon State University (OSU) have joined forces with Transition Projects (TPI) to take student-run free clinics to a new level of interprofessional innovation by launching Bridges Collaborative Care Clinic (BCCC).

Decision Support Toolkit

Blog - November 8, 2016
Adam Obley, MD

Patients and clinicians have many complicated decisions to make, but information is often unclear or inaccessible. Patient decision support tools aid in making evidence-based and value-congruent decisions in the face of uncertainty and facilitate conversations between patients and their providers. Oregon Health & Science University’s Center for Evidence-based Policy, in collaboration with the Oregon Health Authority Transformation Center, have created an online resource for the use of patient decision support tools - learn more about the new Decision Support Toolkit.

Check Out the New Behavioral Health Integration Resource Library

Blog - September 20, 2016
Natalya Seibel

In late September the Patient-Centered Primary Care Institute, in partnership with the Oregon Health Authority’s Transformation Center, is launching a library of behavioral health integration resources - including virtual clinic visits, topical videos and webinars, toolkits, screeners, checklists, and more - to support integrated care implementation and quality improvement.

Connecting Community with Providers & Resources

Blog - May 6, 2016
Maggie McLain McDonnell, MPH

Maggie, a Project Manager with ORPRN, interviewed Juli Gregory, RN, Education Director and Director of ConneXions at Good Shepherd Medical Center to learn more about how community health workers and primary care providers can work together to improve the health of their patients.

The Eastern Oregon Care Coordination Project

Blog - December 9, 2015
Maggie McLain McDonnell

On October 9th clinicians, staff and patients from four primary care practices in Hermiston and Pendleton joined the Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network (ORPRN) for a day-long Eastern Oregon Care Coordination (EOCC) summit at the Pendleton Convention Center. Participants identified local care coordination needs and explored best practices for managing referrals, transitions of care and medications in their practices.

Behavioral Health Integration: Three Models

Blog - October 6, 2015
Natalya Seibel

Behavioral health integration is an enormous part of successful patient-centered primary care. In 2013, there were an estimated 43.8 million adults aged 18 or older in the U.S. with a diagnosable mental illness or 18.5 percent of U.S. adults (National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH]). Integrating mental health professionals into primary care settings to help screen and treat those suffering from depression can aid in easing the debilitating mental, physical, and monetary cost to individual’s lives (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [AHRQ], 2012).