October 24, 2012
MILWAUKEE - (MPA-PPR) - Aurora, Children’s Hospital, Columbia St. Mary's, Froedtert, Wheaton Franciscan Services/St. Joseph and Milwaukee County Medical Examiner provide hospital, clinic, home care, primary care and prevention/intervention for Milwaukeeans.
Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC/MPA LLC announced October 9, 2012, its Milwaukee Affordable Health Care Commons/MA-HCC evaluation project for its hallmark initiative - All Hands on Deck, WE Can.Today, MPA LLC announces its first of several evaluations of service providers, vendors, school-based health institutions and clinics that will provide services for Medicare beneficiaries in the Affordable Health Care Act for Milwaukee.
The project focuses at the neighborhood level with a holistic infrastructure for short and long-term sustainability that is "patient-centered". It includes economic development, entrepreneurial/business development, education attainment, technology attainment and employment. The evaluation takes into account the Essential Health Care benchmarks by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and will monitor how our federal government chooses to be responsive, informed, interactive, transparent, open-to-ideas, accessible and accountable to its rules and the needs of those they serve, especially the Medicare beneficiaries at the center of all efforts for success.
MPA LLC findings will be shared with the legislators (federal/state/county/city), U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, WI Office of Commissioner of Insurance, WI Department of Human Services, WI Workforce Development, WI Housing and Economic Development Administration, WI Economic Development, National Association of Commissioners of Insurance, IT Health Report, US News & World Report for health care, The Journal of American Medical Association and the “public square”.
Phase I of MA-HCC will run from October 24, 2012 to December 31, 2013.
The city of Milwaukee is
the largest city in Wisconsin. It has
over a half-million people - People of Color make-up ¾ of the population.
African American, other
People of Color and Work Challenged (un-, under-employed; un-, under-degreed and certificated; un-,
under-financed neighborhood level business; disabled; and re-entry - especially
those returning from WAR, INCARCERATION, BOOMERANG EMPLOYMENT, BOOMERANG
RETIREMENT and DEGREED students without employment) make-up the customer-base
for the January 1, 2014 Exchange insurance.
Access to health care for People
of Color lags behind Caucasian and often African Americans are at the top of
disparities, followed by Latinos. The
lack of access to dependable and ongoing health care has historically been a
family challenge, episodic, high-cost emergency room care and disjointed for
prevention and intervention care.
In addition to the lack of
insurance, transportation and above issues, too often ‘discrimination’, exploitation and ‘segregation’ have dominated how access and quality care for People
of Color has been severely impacted.
The advent of the
Affordable Health Care insurance plan, January 1, 2014, will offer “health-need” changes for
Milwaukeeans, if the upcoming services follow and enforce its theme of “patient-centered” care.
It is an exciting
opportunity for a large urban population, predominately People of Color, to
become a model for better health care, intervention, prevention, Apps building,
education attainment, technology attainment, create an economic engine and
bring down health care cost in the city of Milwaukee.
MA-HCC
MILWAUKEE
AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE COMMONS/MA-HCC
On October 9, 2012, Mary
Glass, Chair/CEO, Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC, announced the
MA-HCC/Milwaukee Affordable Health Care Commons component of the All Hands on Deck, WE Can Initiative – a hallmark
initiative of MPA-LLC that was launched June 3, 2010 to re-define, re-brand and
un-trap Milwaukeeans, hidden talent and vetted neighborhood-level businesses.
MA-HCC evaluates value vs volume in transformative health care and wellness OF individuals
and organizations that provide services through the Affordable Health Care law.
MA-HCC helps to ensure inclusion, principled-centered leadership, best
practices, transparency, preventive-intervention care, neighborhood level
employment and business development, cost savings, sustainability,
accountability; and, neighborhood level strategic planning and services that
promotes interactive care, buy-in, cost savings, wellness and behavioral health
changes.
The development of APPS/Applications is necessary to provide hands-on,
interactive, responsible and competitive health care services – value vs
volume.
MA-HCC calls for APPs to be developed that are customized for population served; i.e., family traits,
chronic behaviors and diseases such as arthritis, high blood pressure, diabetes,
dialysis, AIDS, asthma, smoking, drinking, drug abuse, diabetes, low birth rate
babies, gun shots, oral/dental care, heart ailment and cancers.
Specifically, the formation of a geographic and cultural Medical Model of Delivery of Care for Milwaukeeans is optimum in
order for Affordable Health Care patients, customers, beneficiaries receiving
medicare are partners, decision makers and "cost-savers" in their
health care.
Up-to-date aggregated data must be
automatically and systematically accessible to patients and health care practitioners for quick access through Electronic Health Records/EHR in
"transactional databases" and with HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) privacy and security management. Databases that have breaches requirements, recovery of data, back-up of data, and accessible to patients and health care
practitioners.
Ongoing training is mandatory for doctors-nurses and all health givers for appropriate and effective use. A team approach for data sharing and evaluation is mandatory. This will provide
information for individual preventive and “population level” health care.
This requires compiling the data,
data maintenance and training individuals (health practitioners, IT
specialists, clerical staff and patients) for mandatory use.
In-Out APPs
In/Out Apps should be
developed for optimum access by the patient, Health coach, IT/Information
technology decision support, individual preventive care, domain screening and
improvements through population level service delivery.
For "essence of
care", all parties must know and buy-in to the "game-rules";
therefore, massive and ongoing training is a MUST.
Behavioral Health
Mobile devices such as Smart phones are flooding the health care field for patient use in monitoring behaviors for better health. However, for Milwaukeeans, it will mean penetrating the barriers of access-literacy-fluency of the mobile device. Additionally, vendors and health providers will need the wiseness of the patient so that tweaking is appropriate and meaningful.
Issues such as privacy, security and storage are on the table for necessary changes.
For Milwaukeeans, this will be a big challenge in bridging technology with patient-centered health care due to the digital divide, cost and exposure to training. MPA LLC is interested in creating one-stop shops, call centers, links, networks, vendors, businesses that will join in creating the "access".
Behavioral Health
Mobile devices such as Smart phones are flooding the health care field for patient use in monitoring behaviors for better health. However, for Milwaukeeans, it will mean penetrating the barriers of access-literacy-fluency of the mobile device. Additionally, vendors and health providers will need the wiseness of the patient so that tweaking is appropriate and meaningful.
Issues such as privacy, security and storage are on the table for necessary changes.
For Milwaukeeans, this will be a big challenge in bridging technology with patient-centered health care due to the digital divide, cost and exposure to training. MPA LLC is interested in creating one-stop shops, call centers, links, networks, vendors, businesses that will join in creating the "access".
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About Health Care Providers
About Health Care Providers
Wheaton Franciscan
Healthcare is
a not-for-profit, Catholic health care system and
housing organization sponsored by the Wheaton Franciscan Sisters of Wheaton, Illinois. It operates more than 100 health and shelter service organizations in Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin. The system has 18 hospital sites, three long-term care facilities, and 70 clinics. Wheaton employs 21,626 associates including 3,543 physicians.
housing organization sponsored by the Wheaton Franciscan Sisters of Wheaton, Illinois. It operates more than 100 health and shelter service organizations in Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin. The system has 18 hospital sites, three long-term care facilities, and 70 clinics. Wheaton employs 21,626 associates including 3,543 physicians.
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Aurora Health Care is an integrated not-for-profit health care provider serving
communities throughout eastern Wisconsin and northern Illinois.
At Aurora, we believe that
coordinated care is better care. Our patients enjoy a comprehensive array of
health care resources and access points depending on their individual needs.
From primary and specialty care to hospitals, pharmacies, lab and home care, we've developed a model of care that
improves quality, makes care more efficient and affordable, and enhances every patient's health care
experience. Click
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Froedtert Hospital is
a 500-bed academic medical center staffed by faculty of
The Medical College of Wisconsin.
It is a major training
and research facility with more than 1,000 medical, nursing and health
technical students in training and over 2,000 active clinical trials each year.
Froedtert Hospital, part of Froedtert Health, operates the region’s only adult
Level One Trauma Center. Click
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Children's Hospital of Wisconsin is one of the nation's top
pediatric facilities. It also is a Level I Pediatric Trauma Center
verified by the American College of Surgeons. Founded in 1894, Children's
Hospital serves children with all types of illnesses, injuries, birth defects
and other disorders. Care is provided to children from Wisconsin, Michigan,
northern Illinois and beyond.
Children's
Hospital is a private, independent, not-for-profit hospital. It is a major
teaching affiliate of The Medical College of Wisconsin and is affiliated with
more than a dozen schools of nursing. A number of other pediatric education
programs also are associated with the hospital.
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The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office is
charged with investigating and determining the cause, circumstances and manner
in each case of sudden, unexpected or unusual death. The Medical Examiner also
provides services in the area of public health and safety such as:
Mission Statement
• To
promote and maintain the highest professional standards in the field of death
investigation;
• To
provide timely, accurate and legally defensible determinations as to the cause
of death;
PART II to follow.
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