Value-based Primary Care

​HCGC believes that primary care providers are a critical gateway to optimal health and value in our region and should be supported in their quest to deliver the right care, at the right time, for the best outcomes and lowest cost.
To do this, HCGC:

• Prioritizes appropriate data utilization,
• Provides practice coaching,
• Convenes formalized patient and family engagement groups, and
• Engages in learning from and sharing established research, policies, best practices and innovative, successful primary care models.

Quality Improvement

HCGC believes that health and healthcare are local, and that improvement and innovation happen when partners are given a safe space to collaborate without fear of failure, and when improvement can be measured, analyzed, and shared among multiple audiences. To do this, HCGC:

• Collects, analyzes, and reports nationally recognized quality measure data from healthcare providers,
• Convenes and supports American Board of Medical Specialties Maintenance of Certification Part IV credit for quality improvement initiatives, and
• Learns from and shares research and best practices that maximize transparent, data-driven quality improvement.

Care Coordination/Population Health

HCGC believes that optimal health and value are not achieved in a medical office building alone. It takes medical, behavioral, social service, public health, and payer entities actively collaborating and coordinating care to meet patients’ needs and outcomes.
To do this, HCGC:

• Prioritizes and grows the Central Ohio Pathways HUB model,
• Supports a common population health framework for community partners,
• Trains and promotes web-based patient data and referrals via CliniSync, and
• Learns from and shares research and best practices in screening and addressing social determinants of health.

​HCGC is also focused on work to improve health disparities and engage employers as key healthcare stakeholders.

​Health Disparities: HCGC’s mission is designed to serve “all people.” However, we are acutely aware that total population measures can hide wide-ranging disparities among different portions of our community. HCGC is committed to seeking opportunities to close health disparity gaps.

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Employers as Key Healthcare Stakeholders: HCGC’s focus on healthcare value requires consideration of the cost component of healthcare. Employers play a special role in funding our current healthcare system. HCGC has experienced that the wide variety in the Central Ohio’s self-insured and fully insured employer market makes singular employer strategies impractical. HCGC seeks opportunities to address cost issues whenever possible.

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