Denver's High-Performance Puclic Health Care System

Case Study 2 - Denver Health: In March 2006, the Federal Fund Board, a high-performance public health system, visited Denver Health and reviewed access to care, quality of care, safety, value, efficiency, and improvement We analyzed work from. Denver Health is a comprehensive medical system that provides services to approximately 25% of Denver residents. It is considered to be the largest Medicaid provider and safety net system in Colorado. The majority of patients under care are minority and not insured; in 2005, 42% of care was not compensated.

In 2012, integration including Denver Health - Emergency Hospital, all federal-qualified health centers in Denver, public health department, emergency 9-1-1 call center, health maintenance group, and several school-based health centers To create a new care model and change its primary care system in order to more effectively satisfy the medical, behavioral and social needs of most low-income strata by providing the personality of the system. The goal of Denver Health in designing a 21st century care model is to improve care experience, improve population health, and reduce per capita healthcare costs. In the early stage of implementation, there was a fourth goal. It was to improve healthcare provider participation and create healthier and happier patients.

The former CEO of the Denver Health and Medical Service Bureau was elected to the RWJF Executive Board. According to the press release of April 2013, Gabow is a trained kidney specialist who teaches Denver Health, a comprehensive health care system serving one of Colorado's poorest people for 20 years. President and chief of the Foundation, Mr. Lisarabizzo - Mouray says: Gabor's "Improving the quality of medical care and achieving success while reducing medical expenses is extremely beneficial for RWJF." Executives commented at a press conference. Gabow continues to serve as a medical professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine

Measurement of the performance of health care delivery system is the focus of policy makers 1 Performance of US medical system is said to be not good 4-6 advanced efforts to improve the structure of medical system It is the country's most costly and poor country. And operations to achieve high performance such as redesign of primary care and use of alternative payment models 7, 8 Recent health care reform, 9-13, will change healthcare delivery system providing high-quality care It is aimed at

Defining a high-performance healthcare system: Dr. Sangeeta C. Ahluwalia, Dr. Cheryl L. Damberg, Marisa Silverman, Master of Public Health, Aneesa Motala, BA, Paul G. Shekelle, MD