Health Systems Flex Pop Health Muscles in Pandemic Response
Healthcare Innovation October 6, 2021
Executives from Trinity Health, Mount Sinai describe how they were able to pivot care management teams and community health workers to COVID response
Leaders of two large health systems recently described how their experience with clinically integrated networks, value-based care, and population health programs allowed them to be nimble and shift resources to the COVID response, prompting them to accelerate these efforts.
Emily Brower, M.B.A., senior vice president, clinical integration at Michigan-headquartered Trinity Health, and Arshad Rahim, M.D., M.B.A., vice president of clinical integration and network development at Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, spoke recently on a panel at the NAACOS fall meeting.
Brower said that fairly early in the pandemic, the national data was showing that...