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A Regional Health Collaborative Formed By New York-Presbyterian Aims To Improve The Health Of A Largely Hispanic Community.
- Source :
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Health Affairs . Oct2011, Vol. 30 Issue 10, p1955-1964. 10p. - Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- Communities of poor, low-income immigrants with limited English proficiency and disproportionate health burdens pose unique challenges to health providers and policy makers. New York-Presbyterian Hospital developed the Regional Health Collaborative, a population-based health care model to improve the health of the residents of Washington Heights-Inwood. This area is a predominantly Hispanic community in New York City with high rates of asthma, diabetes, heart disease, and depression. New York-Presbyterian created an integrated network of patient-centered medical homes to form a "medical village" linked to other providers and community-based resources. The initiative set out to document the priority health needs of the community, target high-prevalence conditions, improve cultural competence among providers, and introduce integrated information systems across care sites. The first six months of the program demonstrated a significant 9.2 percent decline in emergency department visits for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions and a 5.8 percent decrease in hospitalizations that was not statistically significant. This initiative offers a model for other urban academic medical centers to better serve populations facing social and cultural barriers to care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *HEALTH promotion
*METROPOLITAN areas
*ACADEMIC medical centers
*CHRONIC diseases
*HISPANIC Americans
*INFORMATION storage & retrieval systems
*MEDICAL databases
*INTEGRATED health care delivery
*INTERPROFESSIONAL relations
*MEDICAL care use
*NEEDS assessment
*CULTURAL competence
*DISEASE prevalence
*PATIENT-centered care
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02782715
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Health Affairs
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 66796768
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2011.0635