Colorado Beacon Consortium

01/21/2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W-XL5sVsXw

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology takes a few minutes to congratulate the Colorado Beacon Consortium on their success.

01/21/2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js-GzEaF4gY

Learn how the Colorado Beacon Consortium is building an accountable care community. The Colorado Beacon Consortium is one of 17 "Beacon" communities across t...

01/21/2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoc-Rjfjc8A

Seven counties covering 17,500 square miles comprise the geographic reach of the Colorado Beacon Consortium--a cooperative federal agreement, supported by lo...

01/21/2013

http://www.cbcannualreport2012.com/main.html

" What we've achieved through the Colorado Beacon Consortium is we've taken approximately fifty primary care practices in Western Colorado and we've given them the tools and the resources and technology to really practice their trade at a higher level and provide better quality of care to their pati...

12/12/2012

Reminder the Learning Collaborative is tomorrow, Thursday December 13, 2012. See you there!

11/27/2012

We have posted the link to the CMS Collaboration Site on our Beacon Website under the CPCI tab for the CPCI practices to have easier access. http://www.coloradobeaconconsortium.org/

We're Building Medical Homes – in Great Medical Neighborhoods!

11/20/2012

Upcoming Learning Collaboratives
Learning Collaboratives

These are all-day events.

Thursday, December 13, 2012 – Two Rivers Convention Center

To register for this Learning Collaborative:
Visit our Beacon Website at:

http://www.coloradobeaconconsortium.org/events/

10/26/2012

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Released in 1967, the Folsom Commission report "Health is a Community Affair" was deeply influential. It called for numerous reforms, including "communities of solution." A2012 follow-upby the Folsom Group builds on those concepts. Green, who worked with the Folsom Group, discussed some of them with...

10/26/2012

Basin Clinic has had a focus on Diabetes and identified all of their diabetic patients. They created educational packets for them, reviewed their guidelines, and set up their templates to match them based on guidelines. They have recalled their diabetic patients, and have also started offering group visits for them. Their focus has been on nutrition and activity levels, good management of their illness in terms of making sure patients are on the right medications. Those diabetics who need insulin are taking it. Helping patients calibrate their glucose monitoring tools, and started working with the local market to be providing healthier options. They are seeing that their patients are getting healthier, A1c’s are coming down, etc. Their program has had a positive impact on their community.
One of their employees, decided to utilize their program and this is her story:
I actually wanted to lose the weight, a.) Because I needed to. b.) wanted to and c.) was recently told that I was pre diabetic. which I really really don't want to be. My husband is also losing weight and we both feel good together with losing weight, about 40 pounds total between the both of us. Just knowing what diabetes is and what it does, scares me and I really don't want to be a diabetic. Both grandparents on both sides had diabetes so it is very predominant in my family history, as far as I know no one in the next generations have had it. But it is there. When I first saw the HA1C, I was in denial and kept telling myself it wasn't happening, I wasn't diabetic, or pre at that, I had to wait the weekend knowing what it was and was a nervous wreck…..As for the weight loss I am at a standstill for the moment, but with my husband being a support and actually losing along with me feels great!
Jean Williams
This story was provided by Brooke Thomas.

10/09/2012

The Practice Transformation Team has decided to begin posting the wonderful things that we are seeing our practices doing in the community and within their practice here and on our website! So, please feel free to Share Your Story with your QIA.

10/09/2012

Juniper Family Medicine recently became a participating practice in the Reach Out and Read program. They will be working with other participating practices in Grand Junction to put together an informational meeting to let people in the community know about the program and to hopefully get other practices involved. More details to come.
www.reachoutandread.org
This story was shared by Ali Sanchez.

Reach Out and Read prepares America's youngest children to succeed in school by partnering with doctors to prescribe books and encourage families to read together.

10/03/2012

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