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Community Resources Hub
We have heard from some of you that a lack of access to social care resources has at times been a barrier to providing the best care possible. We wanted to remind you about the Community Resources Hub – an easy and useful source of information to address non-clinical patient care needs, with easy online access to free or reduced-cost health resources and social services, like food, housing, transportation and job training.
For most people, navigating the system to get help can be difficult, time-consuming and often frustrating. The Community Resources Hub, powered by Aunt Bertha, is a network that connects people seeking resources to verified social care providers that can serve them, making it easy for people to find social services in our community (and nationwide.) Aunt Bertha helps organizations like Sansum Clinic integrate additional social care into the work we already do. Now, Sansum Clinic and Ridley- Tree Cancer Center wellness and health education programs can also be accessed through the Community Resources Hub.
The Community Resources Hub is integrated into the Wave, to facilitate connecting our patients to resources in our community and to serve the broader trends of our patients’ social care needs.
It can also be found as a desktop icon:
I hope you’ll take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with this valuable tool and use it whenever the need arises.
Barbara Conviser
Director, Population Health and Decision Support,
89 S. Patterson
Sonar Analytics
Santa Barbara Healthcare
Alliance -- an Accountable
Care Organization
As of this year Sansum Clinic is part of the Santa Barbara Healthcare Alliance, an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) through Medicare. Many of you have heard this term used in recent months. In an ACO there is a sharing of medical and financial responsibility while decreasing unnecessary spending by a provider network that is focused around the primary care providers. In short for Sansum the goal of this Alliance is to continue to provide high quality care.
In this ACO there are certain metrics that are monitored as markers for performance that mostly occur in primary care departments. In particular are healthcare maintenance visits, hospital follow up visits, and quality care metrics, such as hypertension, diabetes, and depression management. Over the course of this year there have been many new work flow implementations to ensure we continue to perform at high levels. These include Care Managers, Well messaging, MyChart outreach, Epic fast track work flows, patient self-scheduling, and worker messaging pools to just name a few.
At Sansum we continue to strive for the highest level of quality care and the Santa Barbara Healthcare Alliance is a demonstration of our dedication to this goal.
Bryce Holderness, MD, FACP
Director, ACO Services
Dr. Bryce Holderness
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This Month at Sansum Clinic - June 2021