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Healthy Hearts Northwest: Opportunity for Family and Internal Medicine Providers
The Healthy Hearts Northwest is a three-year project funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) that helps primary care practices in Washington improve their patients’ cardiovascular health – while also building their capacity for quality improvement (QI). The program will resolve around Aspirin use, Blood pressure control, Cholesterol management, and Smoking cessation. (ABCS)
Healthy Hearts Northwest is led by organizations with 20 years of experience working with primary care practices:
- The MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation at Group Health Research Institute
- Qualis Health
- The Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network (ORPRN)
- The WWAMI region Practice and Research Network (WPRN), based at the University of Washington
This project will help your practice turn evidence-based guidelines into practice for an entire population with existing resources. During that project Qualis will provide your practice:
- 15 months of support and assistance.
- Tailored action plan for practice to guide the support.
- Optimize use of quality reporting from the EHR or health information technology.
- Assist and support improving ABCS Heart Health measures, including how to use your EHR for quality improvement purposes.
- Provide services of a Practice Facilitator (PF) for coaching in quality improvement (QI). The PF will visit your practice regularly with monthly calls in between visits and will be accessible by phone.
- Opportunities to participate in trainings to build QI competencies.
- Provide benchmark reports on ABCS clinical quality performance measures to the practice on each measure with benchmarks at a regional, state, and national level.
- Provide survey results back to the practice that indicate opportunities for improving your quality improvement infrastructure.
- Conduct webinars every other month to assist practices with meeting their Healthy Hearts Northwest improvement milestones.
- Convene practices in your region on a phone call every other month to share lessons learned.
- Keep you informed about the overall study.
- Practices will receive expert technical assistance at no cost other than their participation
- Help your practice meet the coming challenge of value based reimbursement. We can help you avoid the 2-4% penalty for not meeting the criteria.
- We will provide high-value information about how to participate in value-based reimbursement programs, such as PQRS and meaningful use.
- Fulfill Part IV Maintenance of Certification for the ABFM and ABIM.
“Healthy Hearts Northwest is an unprecedented opportunity for primary care to prove to the nation that we can make a difference in cardiovascular health at a scale never before tested,” said the principal investigator of Health Hearts Northwest, Michael L. Parchman, MD, MPH. “Practices that participate will receive resources, support, and a ‘roadmap’ to build their capacity to really do quality improvement well.” We have a video of Michael and Dr. Jeff Hummel discussing the project. Check it out here: https://youtu.be/uvPr-fX5-z0
Healthy Hearts Northwest is actively enrolling new practices. To enroll or for more information, please email h2n@qualishealth.org.
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Below is a list of advertisers from the TMCMS Membership Directory. The TMCMS provides this list as a reference tool to be used in identifying those individuals and organizations with experience in dealing with matters of concern to physicians.
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Alcoholism & Drug Dependency Treatment
Evergreen Treatment Services – South Sound Clinic 888-764-7243
Attorneys
Fain Anderson VanDerhoef, PLLC 206-749-0094
Cardiology
Olympia Multi-Specialty Clinic 360-754-1735
Collections/Receivables
Fairway Collections 800-404-5887
Family Caregiver Resource
Lewis-Mason-Thurston Area Agency on Aging 360-664-2168
Financial Services
Anchor Bank 800-562-9744
Frost & Co. Financial Services 360-528-2944 x 1
Heritage Bank 800-455-6126
Gastroenterology
Olympia Multi-Specialty Clinic 360-754-1735
Healthcare Organizations
WSMA 206-441-9762
Hospitals & Healthcare
Capital Medical Center 888-677-9737
MultiCare Health Systems 800-342-9919
Independent Physicians Association
Physicians of Southwest Washington 360-943-4337
Pathology & Laboratories
Cellnetix Pathology 866-236-8296
Laboratories Northwest 800-784-5854
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Providence St. Peter 360-493-4110
Physician & Surgeons Referral and Info
South Sound Gamma Knife at St. Joseph; local consult available in Olympia 866-254-3353
Plastic Surgery – Board Certified Plastic Physicians
Artistic Plastic Surgery Center 253-756-0933
Radiation Oncology
Capital Radiation Therapy 360-596-4872
Radiology
South Sound Radiologists 360-493-4600
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ManorCare of Lacey 360-350-6701
Reproductive Medicine
Pacific Northwest Fertility 206-515-0000
Urgent Care
Mary Bridge Pediatric Urgent Care – Olympia 360-252-3801