The Center’s Goals
What is an IDS? Integrated Delivery Systems seamlessly coordinate the full spectrum of care for all patients. The goal of an IDS is to provide high-quality care, efficiently use resources, and improve patient and population health, as well as measure these results. Barriers to care — such as higher rates of comorbidity, limited access to transportation services and lower health literacy — make it particularly difficult for vulnerable patients to effectively navigate the current health care system. Safety net hospital systems understand this unique population and, with innovative care coordination models, can improve the health of patients and lower costs associated with inefficient use of services.
This Knowledge Portal features key resources from innovations to detailed case studies. Our goal is to share information designed to assist safety net hospitals in transforming their current care models into integrated systems of care. These catalogued, vetted resources and tools identify best practices and models of integrated delivery systems.
ACMC Improves Pneumonia Core Measure PerformanceImproving CMS Core Measure Performance through Early Identification, Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia
Stony Brook Reduces Sepsis MortalityReducing Sepsis Mortality with the Use of ‘Sepsis Bundles’
This webinar recorded May 12, 2011, discusses past challenges and new opportunities.
Dr. Lawrence Casalino, a national expert on Accountable Care Organizations, discusses how safety net providers can prepare for implementation.
This is the official NAPH Blog. In this space we seek to stimulate interesting discussions around issues that affect safety net hospitals and the diverse patients that we serve. So let the dialogues begin!
A no-cost, four-week program from the University of Colorado for hospitals interested in better managing hospital-to-home transitions for patients with complex care needs.