There is an "All Partners" meeting scheduled for December 15 from 12 to 4 pm at the Otesaga Hotel in Cooperstown, New York. This is an opportunity to network with partners and hear about the state of the Performing Provider System (PPS). Please be on the lookout for more information on this meeting.

LCHP was pleased to welcome Ms. Peggy Chan from the New York State Department of Health on November 2nd.  Ms. Chan is the Director of the DSRIP program within the DOH.  The conversation focused on our PPS progress and successes to date, but was also an opportunity for key stakeholders to discuss any barriers and challenges that are making it difficult to achieve project goals.  Attendees included a variety of partner organizations who are actively involved in both clinical as well as organizational projects, as well as DSRIP administrative staff.

LCHP is in the process of distributing implementation funding to those partners who have been actively participating in clinical project teams.   Funding will be distributed to the executives identified as the "lead contact" for each partner organization. This funding is the first payment from the state and is meant to assist partners in starting to build the infrastructure needed to achieve project success.

 

LCHP has also been networking with other PPS's on the development of our future (post implementation funding) funds flow model. The model will take into account the degree to which partners have contributed to the success of clinical projects as well as contributions to organizational workstreams such as (governance, Finance, IT, etc... through the identification of such measures as:

On a quarterly basis, PPS's are required to submit quarterly update reports to the state. Our Demonstration year 1 Quarter 2 (DY1Q2) report for the time period 7/1/15 through 9/30/15 was successfully submitted on October 30th. This report differed somewhat from the first quarterly report, which essentially just outlined the planned approach to the work, in that the PPS now has to report success in meeting various milestones including total "Actively Engaged" patients.   The amount of funding our PPS receives back from the state will be based on the degree to which we have been able to meet these milestones. 7 out of the 9 Domain 2 and 3 projects successfully met their Actively Engaged targets.

LCHP has contracted with Performance Logic to provide DSRIP specific project management software to manage the workplans for the clinical and organizational workstreams. Although the day to day use of this software will be by DSRIP project managers, we anticipate rolling out some facets of the software to partners towards the end of 2015 and into 2016. Partners will be able to use web based forms to submit requested information to the lead agency, and in some cases will be able to update their progress as related to specific tasks and milestones. If you are involved in a project and would like to hear more about this software, speak to your DSRIP project manager.

LCHP "DSRIP Central" would like to introduce our partners to our newest team member, Dr. James Anderson. Dr. Anderson is joining LCHP as the Medical Director for the Integration of Behavioral Health and Primary Care. At a recent DSRIP presentation in Albany, another PPS discussed Behavioral Health as being a common thread that really united all of their clinical projects. To a large extent this is true for our PPS as well. Dr. Anderson will be partnering with leaders in our ambulatory primary care sites as well as behavioral health and substance abuse provider partners to move forward with projects such as Ambulatory Withdrawal Management, Tobacco Cessation, and the Integration of Behavioral Health and Primary Care. Welcome Dr. Anderson!