The Peterson Center on Healthcare is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making healthcare better qualit and more affordable by collaborating with stakeholders across the healthcare system and engaging in grant-making, partnerships and research.
High-need patients who suffer from a range of conditions typically require an assortment of healthcare providers, which means the care the patients receive frequently varies in quality and outcomes, and is costly. For instance, the National Institute for Health Care Management estimates that 5 percent of the U.S. population incurs roughly half of the nation’s health expenditures, or approximately $1.4 trillion annually.
To identify and validate care models that can improve care quality for high-need patients, the Peterson Center on Healthcare will coordinate three grants to go to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston as well as the Institute of Medicine and the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, D.C. The grants will allow the recipients to collaborate and build upon each other’s work.
“This particular group of patients is desperately in need of better and more consistent healthcare,” said Jeffrey Selberg, executive director of the Peterson Center on Healthcare. “There is significant variation in both the quality and cost of the care they receive, and our work will find and validate the proven, innovative models of care that are working in the system today.”
To read more about the work of the three grant recipients, click here.
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