This is the final session in our 5-part series: The Future of Primary Care in BC.
Session 5—Learning from Oregon’s success: improving health care while lowering costs
This session looks at Oregon’s primary care transformation experience and explores how systems can improve quality while controlling costs.
We examine how Oregon’s reform efforts engaged a broad range of health care practitioners and community leaders in developing and regularly reviewing care standards. This included a rating system to motivate and recognize primary care practices that improved the quality of care. Clinics and practitioners were also provided with hands-on coaching, training and additional funding for mental health and administrative support to meet the care standards.
In a review of the first eight years of Oregon’s primary care transformation, there was close to $12 in savings in other parts of the health care system for every dollar invested in primary care.
Panelists
Dr. Evan Saulino, Clinical Director, Comagine Health
David Ross, MPH, CPH, Director of Population Health, Comagine Health
Dr. Elizabeth Powers, Winding Waters Medical Center
Moderated by Andrew Earnshaw (Executive Director at Divisions of Family Practice, Kootenay-Boundary Division) and VĂ©ronique Sioufi, PhD (Racial Equity Researcher and Policy Analyst at BC Policy Solutions)
Other resources mentioned in this session
🩺 About Barbara Starfield — bio and publications (Wikipedia) • Remembering Barbara Starfield: https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/remembering-barbara-starfield-primary-care-champion
🗒️ Primary Care Challenges in Oregon [PDF] — https://www.oregon.gov/oha/HPA/dsi-tc/Documents/Primary-Care-Challenges-in-Oregon.pdf
🗒️ PCPCH Recognition Standards — https://www.oregon.gov/oha/HPA/dsi-pcpch/Pages/Standards.aspx
🗒️ Evaluation of Oregon’s Patient Centered Primary Care Homes on
Expenditures and Utilization from 2011 to 2019: Final Report [PDF] —https://www.oregon.gov/oha/HPA/dsi-pcpch/Documents/PCPCH%20Eval%202011-19%20Final%20022423.pdf