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Colleagues,
First and foremost, I want to share my gratitude for the honor and privilege to serve as your APP Board Chair. Since our very beginning, APP has been a physician-led organization with a governance structure that ensures your voices are heard in all decisions that impact the clinically integrated network (CIN).
Last week, we held our annual APP Board of Directors Retreat, which includes all of the PHO Presidents who shared local perspectives as we set strategy that will build upon our shared success and culture. Here are three things to know and areas we must focus on to drive success in 2024:
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We are truly better together! We achieved significant improvement in 2023 to close gaps in care that matter most to our patients. We closed an incremental 59,000 care gaps over last year and re-evaluated 260,000 more chronic conditions. We approved the network structure changes of the Specialist Incentive Transformation (SIT) to develop appropriate measures and incentives for specialists and we are implementing an interoperable data exchange vendor to ease the burden on the physician for data collection that will comply with the new CMS quality submission standards.
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We need to focus and make improvements in our Admits/1000 and SNF days/1000. APP has expanded our Care Transitions Program to be payer agnostic for all in-patient and observation discharges at Advocate facilities to support you in completing TCM visits.
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APP is at an inflection point. Our PCP network is aging, and our board is committed to developing a framework to stabilize and expand our primary care services so that APP can continue to thrive in the future. We must continue to think innovatively and continue to be the disruptor.
You can also review my quarterly APP Key Message here for our Christ PHO. Please reach out to your Value Based Care team with questions.
As always, thank you for your commitment to our patients and each other.
Emelie Ilarde, MD, FAAFP
APP Board Chair
President, Christ PHO
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