Center Call Agenda, Tuesday March 2nd, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

 

II. Presentation Topic:  Deidre S. Gifford, MD, MPH, Project Director, Health Progress - The Rhode Island Chronic Care Sustainability Initiative: A Multi-payer Demonstration of the Patient-Centered Medical Home

 

Dr. Gifford will be providing an update on the Rhode Island Chronic Care Sustainability Initiatives Multi-Payer Patient Medical Home Demonstration. This demonstration launched in October of 2008, making it one of the first demonstrations implemented.

 

Dr. Gifford is the founder of Health Progress, a healthcare quality improvement consulting organization based in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.    An Obstetrician/Gynecologist, Dr. Gifford holds a Clinical Faculty appointment in Community Health at Brown Medical School, and was the Director of Healthcare Policy and Programs for the Rhode Island QIO until 2008.  Her area of focus is ambulatory care quality improvement, and for the last 3 years Dr. Gifford has served as Project Director for the Rhode Island Chronic Care Sustainability Initiative, a multi-payer demonstration of the Patient-Centered Medical Home.  She has served as a consultant to the Center for Healthcare Strategies since 2008.  In addition to the Medical Home, Dr. Gifford’s work in Ambulatory Care has focused on information technology, and the intersection between IT and quality improvement.

 

Dr. Gifford is a graduate of Cornell University Medical College, and trained in Ob/Gyn at University Hospitals of Cleveland and the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center. She holds a master’s degree in Public Health (Epidemiology) from the UCLA School of Public Health, and did post-graduate study in Health Service Research at UCLA prior to moving to Rhode Island. 
 

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Deliverables	Timeframe
Establish and maintain pilot tracking of regionally diverse, multi-payer initiatives that convene based on the "Joint Principles"  in support of the patient-centered primary care medical home model	Begin Now- ongoing 180 days operational
Identify potential collaborators for local pilots	Ongoing
Offer guidance on market opportunities, key barriers (anti-trust, patient activation, care coordination, reimbursement models, study design) and compile through Center Resource Center and outreach through "Focus On" calls	60-90 days
Facilitate web-based conversations through PCPCC workrooms in support of "Joint Principles"	90-120 days
Establish key characteristics of the PCMH as a guidepost for market start-ups and evaluation	TBD

 

Edwina Rogers, Executive Director
Relja Ugrinic,  Director of Operations and External Affairs

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