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CHERP investigators have been awarded a $7.5 million, 5-year VA grant, toward the innovation, implementation, and evaluation of the VA Patient Centered Medical Home. This is one of the largest health services project grants ever awarded by the VA, and only five proposals were selected for funding. Rachel Werner, MD, PhD is the Director of the Evaluation Center, with Judith Long, MD, and David Asch, MD, MBA, as Co-Directors.
A national priority for VHA leadership, the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model is a patient-driven, team-based approach that delivers efficient, comprehensive and continuous care through active communication and coordination of healthcare services.
The VISN 4 Medical Home Evaluation Center will evaluate the effects of the patient-centered medical home and concurrently evaluate and improve its implementation. Our approach to evaluation is both qualitative and quantitative and is focused on differences in PCMH implementation and effect across veteran subgroups, particularly vulnerable populations.Improving Chronic Illness Care, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation reports that promoting both financial incentives and quality improvement will likely improve care for chronic illneses. |
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CHERP Investigators Win Presitigious National Awards at SGIM Annual Meeting, Five investigators from the VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion received prestigious national awards at the annual meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM). The 33rd annual meeting, co-chaired by a CHERP investigator, was held in Minneapolis, Minnesota April 28 – May 1, 2010. more... Medical Home Competitive Pilot Funding Opportunity, The VISN 4 Medical Home Evaluation Center (MHEC) invites applications from VISN 4 investigators for pilot project support from the MHEC Competitive Pilot Program. The VISN 4 MHEC’s mission is to evaluate the effects of the VA Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) and concurrently evaluate and improve its implementation. The primary purpose of the VISN 4 MHEC Competitive Pilot Program is to support the implementation and evaluation of focused and innovative pilot interventions designed to advance PCMH goals for selected vulnerable populations. more... Be Active, Live Healthy, Lose Weight, Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD, director of the Center for Health Incentives at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, is interviewed by NBC News discussing companies using financial incentives for weight loss. "The ideal incentive system is likely not one where we're continuously paying people, but one in which we help people transition to a healthier state, help them develop better habits and ways that might be more sustainable than continuously paying them incentives," says Volpp. The story aired on nearly 20 NBC affiliates nationwide, in cities including Washington, DC, Dallas/Fort Worth, and Cincinnati.
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