A Brief Summary on One of the Healthcare Models Reviewed in the Article
The RWJF report, “How nurses are solving some of primary care’s most pressing challenges,” provides several primary care models that utilize nurses’ strengths to offer safe, integrated, quality, and accessible healthcare services that match the needs and preferences of the patients. Based on the report, Pennsylvania’s Chronic Care Initiative (CCI) is a fundamental primary care model geared at generating outstanding patient outcomes and enhancing cost savings. The model’s introduction resulted from increased charges for preventable hospitalizations within the state on chronic disorders, making it difficult for some patients to afford healthcare services. As a result, the state’s health reforms revolve around improving affordability, quality, and accessibility (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2012). The CCI provides financial incentives and ensures that patients obtain effective care management to control chronic diseases.
The state offers medical home payments, regional conferences, and patient registries and also trains the nurses to match the needed innovation and ensure the model is successful. According to the report, the model eradicates political and legal obstacles related to providing services, standardizes outcome measures, promotes care management, funds patient registries, and supports learning collaborations (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2012). The state’s model has generated positive patient outcomes such as better cholesterol, blood pressure, and blood glucose control. Additionally, the model has helped in reducing emergency room visits leading to cost savings.
A Current Article on a Primary Care Model
The article “Addressing common challenges in the implementation of collaborative care for mental health: The Penn integrated care program,” by Courtney Benjamin Wolk and other authors, reveals how adopting the Penn Integrated Care model has helped refine mental healthcare in Pennsylvania. The model uses referral management and triage to offer the proper support to clients with mental health desires, thus encouraging collaborative care provision. The process of implementing the PIC (Penn Integrated Care) model has aided in augmenting collaboration and expanding services and training (Wolk et al., 2021). I selected the article to demonstrate how Pennsylvania has significantly invested in innovation to improve patients’ healthcare services. This is because the state has seriously focused on providing quality care that aligns with the patients’ needs to improve the quality of life.
References
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (2012). Implementing the IOM Future of Nursing Report–Part III: How nurses are solving some of primary care’s most pressing challenges(18). Charting Nursing’s Future. Web.
Wolk, C. B., Last, B. S., Livesey, C., Oquendo, M. A., Press, M. J., Mandell, D. S., Ingram, E., Futterer, A. C., Kinkler, G. P., & Oslin, D. W. (2021). Addressing common challenges in the implementation of collaborative care for mental health: The Penn integrated care program.The Annals of Family Medicine, 19(2), 148-156. Web.