Health Delivery and Payment Transformation

The health delivery and payment system is undergoing rapid transformation in an effort to reduce cost and achieve better health outcomes. Community prevention is a valuable strategy for reducing illness and injury in the first place while supporting the Triple Aim of improved population health, lower costs, and improved outcomes. Prevention Institute envisions a transformed health delivery and payment system that advances health and equity through quality community-based prevention practices.

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Community-Centered Health Home Case Studies

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In collaboration with the BlueCross Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation, Prevention Institute profiled healthcare facilities that are implementing CCHH principles. It has also examined the actions of Community-Centered Health Homes in addressing community conditions to improve health and reduce illness and injury.

A Prevention Approach to Medical High Utilization

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PI is actively analyzing how an upstream, community-level prevention approach can reduce and prevent frequent utilization of high-cost healthcare services.

Paying for a Healthy Population

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Prevention Institute is actively exploring alternative payment models and how these models can fund community prevention and support population health and equity.

Accountable Communities for Health (ACH)

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An Accountable Community for Health (ACH) is a structured, cross-sectoral alliance of healthcare, public health, and other organizations that plans and implements strategies to improve population health and health equity for all residents in a geographic area. Designed to strategically leverage resources across sectors, the ACH model presents tremendous opportunities to reduce costs, enhance quality of care, and improve population health.

July 15, 2015

Accountable Communities for Health: Opportunities and Recommendations

The Accountable Community for Health model is emerging as a promising vehicle toward reaching the full potential of the Triple Aim-particularly efforts to improve population health. Accountable Communities for Health: Opportunities and Recommendations, Prevention Institute's report for the state of Vermont, presents research and analysis conducted by Prevention Institute to inform the potential development and application of the Accountable Community for Health (ACH) model.

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January 20, 2015

Sustainable Investments in Health: Prevention and Wellness Funds

This report was produced following a series of interviews with subject matter experts chosen for their experience with prevention and public health initiatives and their expertise in creating dedicated funding streams for prevention.

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Profiles in Innovation: Health Leaders Pursue New Strategies to Keep Their Communities Healthy

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Across the country, health providers and public health leaders are challenging the old ways of delivering health services by developing cutting-edge strategies to improve the health of their communities and their patients by addressing underlying community conditions.

January 29, 2013

How Can We Pay for a Healthy Population? Innovative New Ways to Redirect Funds to Community Prevention

Prevention Institute researchers talked to health-system innovators around the country to identify emerging new approaches. The pioneers we profile in this report have found surprising new ways to capture funds already in the healthcare system and redirect them to pay for population health measures that prioritize community prevention.

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