Wrapped in the ‘population health’ angle but clearly a unique play in the ACO space – at least from the participation point of view of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC), former CEO Steve Ramsland (a 10% allocated FTE) addresses the audience about their market, approach to ACOs and the deployed healthIT spine (they use cClinical Works CCMR).
More information on Redwood Community Health is available here and via 2012 Annual Report. The ACO is an interesting construction of member entities up to and including ‘a doc in private practice’.
In the article noticing the Ramsland resignation – which is interesting on it’s face in terms of back-story if any, the service area for the FQHC includes:
…health centers in Marin, Sonoma, Napa and Yolo counties, including some of the largest FQHCs such as Petaluma Health Center, Marin Community Clinics, Clinic Ole in Napa and West County Health Centers in Sonoma County, among others.
The Redwood Community Care Coalition ACO is NOT aligned with a hospital partner, it is solely sponsored by its founding members.
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