UnitedHealthcare Partners with Camden Coalition to Develop Innovative, Scalable Models of Care for Patients with Complex Heal...
January 31 2017 - 9:30AM
Business Wire
Groundbreaking $15 million strategic
partnership with the nationally recognized Camden Coalition builds
on UnitedHealthcare’s commitment to becoming the premier provider
of integrated health, behavioral and social services
UnitedHealthcare and the Camden Coalition of Healthcare
Providers have announced a $15 million strategic partnership to
develop, test and scale new models of care for patients with
complex health, behavioral and social needs.
The Camden Coalition is a nationally recognized leader in the
design of innovative programs that improve care for high-need
patients facing complex medical and social challenges. Inefficient
and ineffective care of these patients has been identified as a
primary driver of unnecessary health care spending.
UnitedHealthcare has long understood the connection among
health, quality of life and key social determinants, such as
employment, housing, transportation and financial stability. The
company established its myConnections community-based services
model to address these factors in an integrated, holistic
manner.
The partnership will bring together Camden’s community-based
expertise with UnitedHealthcare’s resources and broad national
footprint to develop scalable, sustainable solutions that integrate
medical, behavioral and social services for the country’s most
vulnerable and complex populations.
The company also announced that Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, founder and
executive director of the Camden Coalition, will join
UnitedHealthcare as senior vice president, Integrated Health and
Human Services, to lead myConnections, which will operate as a
formal business division within UnitedHealthcare Community &
State.
“By partnering with the Camden Coalition, we have an
unprecedented opportunity to make a transformational impact on our
health, behavioral and social service systems,” said Austin
Pittman, CEO of UnitedHealthcare Community & State. “Dr.
Brenner’s passion and commitment to bringing sustainable health
care to our most vulnerable people make him an ideal leader to
further build and integrate our myConnections approach across
UnitedHealthcare’s entire portfolio.”
“Dr. Brenner’s longtime leadership in improving care for complex
patients has put the Coalition on firm footing to sustain and
increase momentum long into the future,” said Kim Barnes, chair of
the Camden Coalition Board of Directors and senior vice president
at Lourdes Health System. “The financial support from
UnitedHealthcare will enable the Coalition to continue to develop
and improve models to deliver better care to residents of New
Jersey, and share our learnings with others nationwide.”
“This partnership is poised to create the first comprehensive,
scalable and sustainable solution for one of society’s biggest
challenges – reforming the health care system to make it work for
its most complex and vulnerable people,” said Dr. Brenner.
About
UnitedHealthcareUnitedHealthcare is dedicated to helping
people nationwide live healthier lives by simplifying the health
care experience, meeting consumer health and wellness needs, and
sustaining trusted relationships with care providers. The company
offers the full spectrum of health benefit programs for
individuals, employers, military service members, retirees and
their families, and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and
contracts directly with more than 1 million physicians and care
professionals, and 6,000 hospitals and other care facilities
nationwide. UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified Fortune 50 health and
well-being company. For more information, visit UnitedHealthcare at
www.uhc.com or follow @myUHC on Twitter.
About the Camden Coalition for
Healthcare ProvidersThe Camden Coalition of Healthcare
Providers is a citywide coalition of over 25 hospitals, primary
care providers and community organizations working together to
deliver better health care to vulnerable citizens in Camden, NJ.
Founded by Dr. Jeffrey Brenner in 2002, the Coalition knits
together a fragmented health care system for patients with complex
needs and repeated, ineffective and expensive hospitalizations,
using smart data and holistic, multi-disciplinary team care. We
believe if we can deliver better care at lower cost here in Camden,
it can be done for everyone, everywhere in America.
About myConnectionsToday
myConnections is touching lives in Arizona, Michigan, New York and
North Carolina through flexible-format myCommunity Connect centers
and targeted data-enabled outreach. This on-the-ground presence in
communities has enabled the creation of strategic partnerships with
a broad spectrum of service providers – from faith-based and
charity organizations to public sector entities – and has helped
identify areas of critical need at local levels.
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