CATHY JACOBSON, President and CEO, Froedtert Health (Milwaukee)
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“In each community we serve, behavioral health is consistently among the top issues identified by our community health needs assessments. Our health network, Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin, recognized the need to enhance our capabilities in this area as we develop our population health model. Though we have services from community based providers to the expertise and training at the academic medical center, the system of care is not integrated with the rest of our delivery network. Our work this year is to determine how to develop a care model integrated into our patient-centered medical homes and then develop the connections to the other services needed by our patients.
On a community level, the most acute need has been identified in urban Milwaukee. Froedtert Health along with the Medical College of Wisconsin, the other health systems serving Milwaukee County, FQHCs and state, county and city health departments are members of the Milwaukee Health Care Partnership. The MHCP is dedicated to improving healthcare for the underserved populations in Milwaukee County. In this role, the MCHP recently endorsed a Behavioral Health Steering Committee and identified this initiative as a communitywide priority of the participating members.
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