Community Care of North Carolina: building community systems of care through state and local partnerships

Community Care of North Carolina: building community systems of care through state and local partnerships

Collection:
Health Policy and Services Research
Series Title(s):
Case study. Organized health care delivery system
Contributor(s):
McCarthy, Douglas.
Mueller, Kimberly.
Commonwealth Fund.
Publication:
[New York, NY] : Commonwealth Fund, [2009]
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Community Health Services -- organization & administration
Community Networks
Cooperative Behavior
Delivery of Health Care -- organization & administration
Financing, Organized
Organizational Case Studies
Adult
Benchmarking
Child
Child Health Services
Cost Savings
Health Services Needs and Demand
Local Government
Medicaid
Patient Care Management
Poverty
Primary Health Care -- organization & administration
Quality Assurance, Health Care -- organization & administration
State Government
Humans
North Carolina
United States
Genre(s):
Technical Report
Abstract:
Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC) is a public-private partnership between the state and 14 nonprofit community care networks. The networks comprise essential local providers that deliver key components of a "medical home" for low-income adults and children enrolled in Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Community-based delivery systems promote the development of locally led approaches that leverage resources and relationships to meet statewide goals. Local networks and primary care physicians receive supplemental funding for care management and quality improvement initiatives supported by statewide performance measurement and benchmarking activities. Results suggest that the program has yielded cost savings while promoting improvements in care of patients with chronic conditions. CCNC's experience may be relevant to other states considering how to improve primary care case management programs, or how to better address the needs of low-income individuals in areas that lack effective mechanisms for coordinating care.
Copyright:
Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
Illustrations:
Illustrations
NLM Unique ID:
101537912 (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101537912