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Empowering Our Communities to Be The Healthiest in the Nation: Aligning a Healthcare System to Improve Population Health
While this process is on-going and influenced by many external forces (e.g. Affordable Care Act implementation), the process of transformation is taking place in three distinct areas. First, a great deal of effort has been put into organizational alignment. This process has included energizing Trustees, modifying the employee incentive structures, and creating new programs to maximize line-of-sight understanding between employees across the organization and the new vision.
Second, the Atlantic Center for Population Health Sciences was formed to re-organize and re-direct existing departments of community health, aligning community outreach efforts with evidence-based best practices and community health needs.
Third, a process for obtaining, using and communicating data, from both clinical settings and public health, in new ways both to improve the quality of care, to monitor population health outcomes and to address service gaps or disparities.
Although much remains to be done, Atlantic Health System has laid the foundation for achieving its community-focused vision; other hospitals and healthcare systems can learn from our process, challenges, and lessons learned.
Learning Areas:
Administration, management, leadershipConduct evaluation related to programs, research, and other areas of practice
Program planning
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health
Learning Objectives:
List the processes used to align organizational support within the healthcare system at the trustee, senior management, and employee levels
Identify techniques for prioritization of community health programming
Discuss the key transitions for healthcare systems moving toward increased population health initiatives.
Keyword(s): Community Health Assessment, Health Care Reform
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am qualified to be the author of this Abstract as it represents my experience in leading populatoin health initiatives for a large, U.S. healthcare system.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.