We Can鈥檛 Wait: HHS announces first 26 Health Care Innovation awards
Programs will save estimated $254 million, improve health care
May 8, 2012
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Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the first batch of organizations for Health Care Innovation awards. Made possible by the health care law – the Affordable Care Act – the awards will support 26 innovative projects nationwide that will save money, deliver high quality medical care and enhance the health care workforce.听 The preliminary awardees announced today expect to reduce health spending by $254 million over the next 3 years.听
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鈥淲e can鈥檛 wait to support innovative projects that will save money and make our health care system stronger,鈥 said Secretary Sebelius. 鈥淚t鈥檚 yet another way we are supporting local communities now in their efforts to provide better care and lower cost.鈥
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The new projects include collaborations of leading hospitals, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, technology innovators, community-based organizations, and patients鈥 advocacy groups, among others, located in urban and rural areas that will begin work this year to address health care issues in local communities.听 This initiative allows applicants to come up with their best ideas to test how we can quickly and efficiently improve the quality and affordability of health care.
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Projects include:
- Emory University鈥檚 collaboration with area health systems to train health professionals and use tele-health technologies to link critical care units in rural Georgia to critical care doctors in Atlanta hospitals.听 This project aims to save money and improve the quality of care by reducing the need to transfer patients from rural hospitals to critical care units in Atlanta;
- Courage Center, which is a program in Minneapolis-St. Paul serving adults with disabilities and complex medical conditions. The grant will enable Courage Center to save money and improve the quality of care by creating a patient-centered medical home focused on highest-cost Medicaid patients;
- A University Hospitals of Cleveland initiative to increase access and care coordination for children beyond the walls of the doctor鈥檚 office. This initiative aims to save money and improve the quality of care by extending the expertise of an elite children鈥檚 hospital to local pediatric practices treating children with complex chronic conditions and behavioral health problems with physician extension teams and tele-health.
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Preliminary awardees were chosen for their innovative solutions to the health care challenges facing their communities and for their focus on creating a well-trained health care workforce that is equipped to meet the need for new jobs in the 21st听century health system. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects the health care and social assistance sector will gain the most jobs between now and 2020.
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Today鈥檚 awards total $122.6 million. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation within the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services at HHS administers the awards through cooperative agreements over 3 years.
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For more information on the awards announced today, go to:听
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To learn more about other innovative models being tested by CMS鈥 Innovation Center, please visit:.
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Health Care Innovation Awards: Project Profiles
The CMS Innovation Center has announced the first batch of preliminary awardees for the Health Care Innovation Awards.听These organizations will implement projects in communities across the nation that aim to deliver better health, improved care and lower costs to people enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), particularly those with the highest health care needs. Funding for these projects are for 3 years.听This list will be updated as additional projects are selected.听The next batch of preliminary awardees will be announced in early June 2012.
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Note:听Descriptions and project data (e.g. gross savings estimates, population served, etc.) are 3 year estimates provided by each organization and are based on budget submissions required by the Health Care Innovation Awards application process. 听While all projects are expected to produce cost savings beyond the 3 year grant award, some may not achieve net cost savings until after the initial 3-year period due to start-up-costs, change in care patterns and intervention effect on health status.
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BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS
Project Title:听鈥淧reventing avoidable re-hospitalizations: Post-Acute Care Transition Program (PACT)鈥
Geographic Reach:听Massachusetts
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CENTER FOR HEALTH CARE SERVICES
Project Title:听鈥淎 recovery-oriented approach to integrated behavioral and physical health care for a high-risk population鈥
Geographic Reach:听Texas
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COOPER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Project Title:听N/A
Geographic Reach:听New Jersey
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COURAGE CENTER D/B/A CAMP COURAGE
Project Title:听听鈥淐ourage Center鈥
Geographic Reach:听Minnesota
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DELTA DENTAL PLAN OF SOUTH DAKOTA
Project Title:听听鈥淚mproving the care and oral health of American Indian mothers and young children and American Indian people with diabetes on South Dakota reservations鈥
Geographic Reach:听South Dakota
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DUKE UNIVERSITY
Project Title:听听鈥淔rom clinic to community: 听achieving health equity in the southern United States鈥
Geographic Reach:听North Carolina and West Virginia
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EMORY UNIVERSITY (CENTER FOR CRITICAL CARE)
Project Title:听鈥淩apid Development and Deployment of Non-Physician Providers in Critical Care鈥
Geographic Reach:听Georgia
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FINITY COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Project Title: 听鈥淓veryBODY Get Healthy鈥
Geographic Reach:听Oregon and Pennsylvania
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GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
Project Title:听听鈥淯sing Telemedicine in peritoneal dialysis to improve patient adherence and outcomes while reducing overall costs鈥
Geographic Reach: Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia
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HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION
Project Title:听听鈥淣ew England asthma innovations collaborative鈥
Geographic Reach:听Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont
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JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER, INC.
Project Title: 听鈥淧athways to better health through a new health care workforce and community鈥
Geographic Reach:听New Mexico, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia
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KITSAP MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
Project Title: 听鈥淩ace to health: coordination, integration, and innovations in care鈥
Geographic Reach:听Washington
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LIFELONG MEDICAL CARE
Project Title:听听鈥淗ealth Care Innovation Challenge: LifeLong complex care initiative to achieve the Triple Aim鈥
Geographic Reach:听California
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MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER
Project Title:听听鈥淩egional integrated multi-disciplinary approach to prevent and treat chronic pain in North Carolina鈥
Geographic Reach:听North Carolina
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THE NATIONAL HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS COUNCIL
Project Title: 听听鈥淐ommunity health workers and HCH: 听a partnership to promote primary care鈥
Geographic Reach:听New Hampshire, Texas, Nebraska, Massachusetts, Illinois, Florida, North Carolina, California
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OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION
Project Title:听听鈥淐omprehensive stroke care model through the continuum of care鈥
Geographic Reach:听Louisiana
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PITTSBURGH REGIONAL HEALTH INITIATIVE
Project Title:听Creating a Virtual Accountable Care Network for Complex Medicare Patients
Geographic Reach:听Pennsylvania
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REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
Project Title: 听鈥淯CLA Alzheimer鈥檚 and dementia care: 听comprehensive, coordinated, patient-centered鈥
Geographic Reach:听California
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SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER
Project Title:听“Ravenswood Family Health Care Innovation Project”
Geographic Reach:听California
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UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Project Title: 听鈥淐ommunityRx system: 听linking patients and community-based service鈥
Geographic Reach:听Illinois
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UNIVERSITY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
Project Title:听听鈥淏etter health through social and health care linkages beyond the emergency department鈥
Geographic Reach:听New York
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UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND 听听
Project Title: 听鈥淭ransforming pediatric ambulatory care: 听the physician extension team鈥
Organizations: 听University Hospitals 听(UH) Rainbow Babies and Children鈥檚 Hospital at UH Case Medical Center partnering with Ohio Medicaid, CareSource, WellCare, 4 community mental health agencies, Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland Schools, Head Start, InstantCare, and HealthSpot. 听
Geographic Reach:听Ohio
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UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER
Project Title: 听鈥淟everage innovative care delivery and coordination model: 听Project ECHO鈥
Geographic Reach:听New Mexico and Washington
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UPPER SAN JUAN HEALTH SERVICE DISTRICT听
Project Title:听听鈥淪outhwest Colorado cardiac and stroke care鈥 听
Geographic Reach:听Colorado
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VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
Project Title: 听鈥淩educing hospitalizations in Medicare beneficiaries; a collaboration between acute and post-acute care鈥
Geographic Reach:听Tennessee
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WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RHODE ISLAND
Project Title: 听鈥淧artnering with parents, the medical home and community provider to improve transition services for high- risk preterm infants in Rhode Island鈥
Geographic Reach:听Rhode Island
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