Coordinated Care:
Working with Oregon Health Authority's Transformation center
In 2012, Oregon implemented the Coordinated Care Organization (CCO) Model, challenging the traditional ways of looking at healthcare and what defines health. With a singular global budget, CCOs are able to integrate services that serve all areas of health: physical, behavioral, dental, and social determinants. At various intervals, CCOs are required to compose a Community Health Improvement Plan (CHP) including their goals and strategies to address the most pressing issues relating to health that affect their communities.
chp analyst internship
The work I did was with the Transformation Center, a sect of OHA tasked with working directly with CCOs providing tools, assistance, and resources in order for them to best meet their communities' needs. The following was my role in furthering innovation as Oregon implements CCO 2.0, an improvement upon the original CCO model:
Purpose: To summarize CCO Community Health Improvement Plan (CHP) priorities and strategies across the
state, and potentially map alignment with local public health authority (LPHA) and non-profit hospital CHPs.
Project Scope: Work with the OHA Transformation Center to review and analyze 2019 CCO CHPs and
qualitatively code CHP priorities and strategies. Create a crosswalk of CCO CHP priorities and strategies to Local Public Health Authority
and non-profit hospital CHP priorities and strategies, and develop a summary document. Potential to use
analysis to develop recommendations to OHA for how CCOs might continue to improve means of CHP
implementation.
Purpose: To summarize CCO Community Health Improvement Plan (CHP) priorities and strategies across the
state, and potentially map alignment with local public health authority (LPHA) and non-profit hospital CHPs.
Project Scope: Work with the OHA Transformation Center to review and analyze 2019 CCO CHPs and
qualitatively code CHP priorities and strategies. Create a crosswalk of CCO CHP priorities and strategies to Local Public Health Authority
and non-profit hospital CHP priorities and strategies, and develop a summary document. Potential to use
analysis to develop recommendations to OHA for how CCOs might continue to improve means of CHP
implementation.
The compilation of data from these CHPs that served as the end product of my work, unfortunately, cannot be posted publicly. This image, however, shows the larger priorities and focus areas that were present in CHPs. Notice the large scope: CCOs are not just looking at health in a traditional sense, as if only your physical body dictates your health, but rather the interconnected and expansive network of circumstances that dictates your health. With the recent understanding of Social Determinants of Health, coding and quantitative data analysis becomes slightly more complicated. It is much simpler to have a binary code in reference to a specific dental treatment rather than one for the sense of community one feels in their neighborhood. Determining how to solve that problem was the most impactful part of my work.
Coordinated Care OrganizationsOregon's unique way of structuring healthcare ensures that communities are always kept in mind, and patients are at the center of all decision-making.
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Public HEalth Story MapThis resource was developed by the Transformation Center for Members to be able to easily find and view their county's CCO(s) and Community Health Improvement Plan.
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Thank you so much for visiting this page and engaging in the work that I am proud to have done. My name is Grace Hagemann, and I'm an undergraduate student at Portland State University. I am working toward a degree in General Science with a Minor in Spanish and focus in Public Health Policy. Along with my work with OHA, I serve as Equal Rights Advocacy Director for the Associated Students of PSU, sit on the Student Health Advisory Board, and lead a mentorship program for Portland High School students interested in STEM fields. This work leads me to pursuing a Medical Degree so that I can work towards equity and justice within the healthcare system. My personal narrative below illustrates the steps that brought me to this work, and continue to guide me to what lies ahead.
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