Blue Cross and Blue Protect of Kansas (BCBSKS), United Manner of Higher Topeka and Stormont Vail Well being have partnered with Healthify to launch the Northeast Kansas Neighborhood Community – a linked community of healthcare and social service organizations geared toward bettering well being outcomes in Northeast Kansas.
The Northeast Kansas Neighborhood Community is being funded by means of assist from BCBSKS.
WHAT’S THE IMPACT?
The partnership between insurer, supplier and the United Manner closes the hole between medical and nonclinical organizations. By the Healthify platform and the community, suppliers and neighborhood sources are linked to offer whole-person care to probably the most weak members of the neighborhood, the organizations mentioned.
The general advantages of the community embody stronger collaboration, higher potential to measure and gauge impression of providers, streamlined care coordination and an emphasis on value-based care.
With the brand new community, a supplier will be capable to entry the Healthify platform to look their neighborhood and surrounding areas for the sources their sufferers want, and refer them on to that neighborhood group. Stormont Vail, the main healthcare supplier locally, will probably be a key place to begin for lots of the obligatory referrals.
The community at the moment has 13 signed neighborhood companions in Shawnee County spanning key social service domains accepting referrals for greater than 180 providers.
The infrastructure of the community will allow community-based organizations, reminiscent of Topeka Habitat for Humanity or Meals on Wheels, to enter deeper partnerships with healthcare suppliers and extra simply join with these in want of help.
THE LARGER TREND
Blue Cross and Blue Protect of Kansas is an impartial licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Protect Affiliation and is the state’s largest insurer, serving all Kansas counties besides Johnson and Wyandotte. Stormont Vail Well being is a nonprofit built-in well being system that has served Kansas for greater than 130 years, and consists of Stormont Vail Hospital, a 586-bed acute care hospital, and Cotton O’Neil Clinic, a multi-specialty doctor group with greater than 500 suppliers, together with greater than 250 physicians.
ON THE RECORD
“Our aim is to assist scale back as many obstacles as potential to accessing the sources wanted to dwell a wholesome life,” mentioned Virginia Barnes, director of Blue Well being Initiatives at BCBSKS. “We all know that round 60% of well being outcomes are on account of social, bodily, and environmental components in our communities. This community will present a stronger basis for well being that works with – not separate from – the healthcare techniques.”
“Healthify will help Stormont Vail Well being care groups in finishing well timed referrals to neighborhood organizations to handle and help with the social wants of our sufferers,” mentioned Amy Kincade, vice chairman, Population Health, Stormont Vail Well being. “Utilizing a referral system reminiscent of Healthify strengthens our neighborhood relationships to enhance our affected person’s well being outcomes.”
“At United Manner, we’re dedicated to creating and cultivating an unbreakable community of assist for a powerful, wholesome and equitable neighborhood,” mentioned Brett Martin, vice chairman of neighborhood impression, United Manner of Higher Topeka.
“The NKCN embodies that effort in a priceless new approach and permits us to be a greater neighborhood accomplice and grant-maker. This community will join a variety of suppliers who collectively may have a better impression on a shopper’s life than any certainly one of them might have on their very own. Finally, we will enhance shopper outcomes and ease their journey, enhance service supply, and enhance our social service techniques to realize higher well being outcomes for all.”
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