August 13, 2009 - Henry Ford Health System is a vertically integrated health care system in southeastern Michigan whose leadership is committed to systemic integration, clinical excellence, and customer value through the core competencies of collaboration, care coordination, and innovation and learning.
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July 2, 2009 - Group Health Cooperative (GHC) is a nonprofit, consumer-governed health care organization serving 580,000 members in Washington State and Idaho through an integrated multispecialty group practice and a network of community providers.
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July 2, 2009 - Fifteen case studies illustrate how diverse types of organized health care delivery systems promote higher performance through information continuity, patient engagement, care coordination, team-oriented care delivery, continuous innovation and learning, and convenient access to care.
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November 20, 2008 - To build trust with patients and improve continuity of care, a tribally run ambulatory clinic in Southern California assigned patients with chronic conditions to one of several teams of providers.
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September 26, 2008 - Concord Hospital is a 295-bed, not-for-profit community hospital, located in Concord, N.H.
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September 19, 2008 - With the help of consultants with expertise in the automotive industry, a large ophthalmology practice in Lansing, Mich., reduced patient wait times and its need for clinical support staff.
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August 28, 2008 - The Family Medicine Practice of The Polyclinic is one of 12 primary care practices included in this case study project of high-performing patient-centered primary care practices.
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August 28, 2008 - Grant Community Clinic is one of 12 primary care practices featured in Commonwealth Fund case studies of patient-centered practices.
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June 26, 2008 - The Spring Street site of the Wheaton Franciscan Medical Group (WFMG) is one of 12 primary care practices featured in Commonwealth Fund case studies of high- performing patient-centered primary care practices.
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May 21, 2008 - North Dakota faces health care challenges common to many rural areas of the U.S., but the state's health care system appears to be performing better than that in many other states--rural or urban. A new Fund report shows how North Dakota is getting it done.
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March 20, 2008 - A quality improvement program implemented at a large nonprofit health system relied on performance reporting, financial incentives, and a nursing intervention to promote evidence-based care for heart failure patients and to lower readmissions among these patients.
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January 24, 2008 - Hudson River HealthCare's experience in multiple quality improvement collaboratives and in meeting its requirements as a federally qualified health center has proved beneficial in its efforts to provide high-quality, patient-centered care.
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March 12, 2007 - Marshfield Clinic of Wisconsin's experience suggests that information systems, care management, process redesign, and physician involvement are important to improving the quality and efficiency of care in response to pay-for-performance incentives.
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June 30, 2005 - CMS has launched several demonstration programs to find out whether chronic care management programs developed in the private sector can be effective for the Medicare population.
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May 4, 2005 - Taking the lead from corporate purchasers, state Medicaid agencies now incorporate pay-for-performance and other quality incentives into their agreements with managed care plans.
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