HealthTeamWorks, formerly known as CCGC, is a non-profit, multi-stakeholder collaborative working to redesign the healthcare delivery system and promote integrated communities of care using evidence-based medicine and innovative systems. Our goals are to optimize health, improve quality and safety, reduce costs, and improve the care experience for patients and their healthcare teams.

Colorado Primary Care Practices:
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practice-improvement coaching — and do it soon!

Prepare your practice for new compensation plans through HealthTeamWorks’ Patient-Centered Medical Home Foundations Program, generously funded by The Colorado Health Foundation. Learn best practices from in-office coaches who’ve worked with hundreds of your peers. But you must move quickly if you want your practice to benefit from transformation guidance at no cost. Our grant funding runs out in 2013.

Apply online, call 303-446-7200 or e-mail info@healthteamworks.org. 

Coach University:
Learn to be a quality improvement coach
Hold your place in the March 12-16 session

 

Online Training Modules

Accurate Home Blood-Pressure Monitoring Training Module

SBIRT and Tobacco Training Module - Designed for use by the whole practice team 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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News and Events
 

Colorado PCMH Pilot makes national news for cost savings

The Wall Street Journal, The Denver Post and Northern Colorado Business Report all recently spotlighted patient-centered care, compensation to primary care physicians and HealthTeamWorks. Insurers are adopting new payment strategies for primary care, acknowledging its importance in preventing high medical costs down the line. No wonder: Anthem found that the PCMH reduced hospital admissions 18% and ER use by 15% and gives a return of 2.5 to four times the investment!
 

Jan. 12, 2012
Paper: Electronic standing orders improve adult immunization rates
A paper published in the January Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety describes how automated standing orders — documents that stipulate specific actions for specific types of patients — improved immunization rates in adults 65 years and older, as well as in younger adults with diabetes or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Jan. 3, 2012
HealthTeamWorks’ Elaine Skoch chosen to participate on Robert Wood Johnson Foundation panel
Elaine Skoch, RN, MN, EMBA, NEA-BC, director of Systems Transformation for HealthTeamWorks, was asked to participate on an expert panel for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Primary Care Workforce Initiative.