Health care improvement in Pueblo, Colorado: building on common ground
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Case study (Commonwealth fund)
- Author(s):
- Hostetter, Martha, author Klein, Sarah, author McCarthy, Douglas, author
- Contributor(s):
- Commonwealth Fund, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : Commonwealth Fund, September 2017
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Delivery of Health Care, Integrated Health Care Coalitions Interinstitutional Relations Quality Indicators, Health Care Quality of Health Care Health Policy Health Services Accessibility -- statistics & numerical data Hispanic Americans Hospitalization -- statistics & numerical data Medicaid Preventive Health Services -- statistics & numerical data State Government Humans Colorado United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- The high-desert region encompassing Pueblo in southeastern Colorado was one of only 14 out of 306 regions nationally to improve on a majority of performance measures tracked by the Commonwealth Fund's Scorecard on Local Health System Performance, 2016 Edition. Socioeconomic challenges and geographic isolation have fostered a sense of interdependence among local health care providers, who have leveraged the state's Medicaid expansion to enhance access to care while improving coordination. Providers have also joined with public health and social service agencies, businesses, educators, and nonprofits in creating the Pueblo Triple Aim Corporation, an improvement collaborative that uses data to define problems and create shared accountability for solving them. The group engaged the community in youth development programs as part of an effort that reduced the teen pregnancy rate by more than half. This and other collaborative efforts tap state policy to accomplish local priorities while seeking to build community pride. Key Takeaways: (1) Pueblo's providers have leveraged Colorado's Medicaid expansion to enhance access to care while improving coordination. (2) Local improvement collaboratives use data to define problems and promote shared accountability for solving them.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (16 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101712867 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101712867