Since 1999, Connecticut Primary Care Association
(CPCA) has worked with more than 104 community health centers
in the northeast to implement Health Disparities Collaborative
(HDC) initiatives to improve patient outcomes and the quality
of care to people with chronic diseases. As lead agency for HDC’s
Northeast Cluster, CPCA is committed to sharing best practices
from the region with all who may benefit.
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Diabetes Management Becomes Both Personal and Collaborative
at Delmarva Rural Ministries
Overweight with cardiovascular
risk, suffering in more ways than she knew, Gail
questioned how could she, as a nurse and team leader,
advise patients and team members about making changes
when she wasn’t making any herself. Through
pictures, candid personal stories, charts and diagrams,
Gail now shares her journey of challenges, choices
and changes to live a healthy lifestyle.
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Masterminds Facilitate Spread of Health Collaboratives in the Bronx
Caring for one of the poorest, most medically underserved communities in
the nation with the highest rates of asthma, adult and pediatric AIDS,
sexually transmitted diseases and tuberculosis in New York City calls
for a bold approach. Paloma Hernandez shares how the leadership pipeline
for the Mastermind program is primed for action and will, by design,
continuously move Urban Health Plan forward in its quest to significantly
improve the health status of the community it serves.
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Advanced Access Offers Same
Day, Same Provider Service at Community Health Center
Serving 50,000 people a year offered an ever-present challenge of juggling
provider schedules with patient demand. When no-show rates climbed to 40%,
booking patients and arranging provider schedules became an exercise in
futility and a drain on resources. Dr. Daren Anderson shares how CHC successfully
shifted to Advanced Access, reducing their no-show rate to 10%, increasing
continuity, productivity and satisfaction.
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Small Health Center Collaborative
Snowballs into Big Outcomes for Rural Maine
Located in a rural, isolated, medically underserved area of northern Maine,
Fish River Rural Health’s patient population had high rates of diabetes
and cardiovascular disease. Norm Fournier and Sue Bouchard share how collaborative
teams took the guesswork out of planning by listening to the patients through
focus groups, intercept surveys and other primary research. Creative
thinking soared as teams found innovative ways to address the needs and
issues they uncovered.
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