Detroit Medical Center Awarded National Health Care Innovation Award
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The project, entitled Gateway to Health: An Innovative Model for Primary Care Expansion in
"As a
The focus will be on improving the care provided to patients with diabetes, asthma, hypertension, heart failure, chronic lung disease, depression and HIV. Emergency department "super-utilizers" who have 10 or more visits annually are another program target group.
A multidisciplinary team of caregivers will work closely with each patient to help them achieve wellness through prevention and self-management of their conditions. Face-to-face visits, telephone contact and texting will all be used to better connect patients to the care team. Patient coaches and navigators are essential to the model as well.
"As part of the DMC's ongoing strategy to improve the way our communities receive health care, we launched our DMC Path to Health campaign this year with the passing of the Affordable Care Act and
Seventy-one percent, or more than 500,000
The Health Care Innovation Awards are funding grants to applicants who will implement the most compelling new ideas to deliver better health, improved care and lower costs to people enrolled in
The awards range from
The DMC's new embedded primary care model will be implemented starting
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