Rural Hospital Takes Advanced Payment Path
Oregon's Sky Lakes Medical Center pursues value-based population health:
History of population health management
Sky Lakes has been building toward value-based population health for decades, caring for Medicaid patients under fully capitated arrangements, deploying an electronic health record, and actively investing in community wellness initiatives to prevent and manage disease.
A partnership turned ACO
Although independent, Sky Lakes formed a collaborative with six other Oregon hospitals and health systems: an academic medical center, two large tertiary facilities, and three other small rural hospitals.