Mission: Catalyze action to achieve human health, equity, and well-being
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Vision: Achieving whole person and whole community health by accelerating the transition to fully accountable value-based care for underserved Americans.
“The US faces crises in our collective health and well-being; declining life expectancy driven by long standing and deepening inequities, the persistent inefficiency, ineffectiveness and high cost of the nation’s health and health care system. A response proportional to the crisis is required.”
National Academy of Medicine
Social Drivers of Health (SDoH)
It is widely accepted that upstream social drivers of health equity (SDHE), those outside the scope of health care systems, account for 90% of health outcomes. These lifestyle drivers disproportionately impact historically underserved populations.
Health is profoundly local. The Impact of the social drivers of health outcomes demands moving beyond traditional healthcare to meet in the community.
Food and Movement is Medicine
Diet remains the number one risk of death in 9 of 10 leading causes of death and driver of Physcial, maternal and mental chronic diseases. The Mayo Clinic now classifies dementia as Type 3 diabetes. Obesity public enemy #1 with the childhood obesity epidemic most alarming.
The evidenced based research is clear and mounting: Implementing Lifestyle Medicine strategies can lead to profound health improvements, disease reversal, and enhanced well-being.
Value Based Care Brilliantly Created
Fully Accountable Value Based Care brilliantly was created by CMMI in 2010 to correct the misalignment of the country’s food and health policies. A common sense, outcome-based economic model perfectly aligning goals of provider and individual by rewarding improving health and preventing illness. For acceptance of full financial risk for the health of a population, providers free to unleash their innovation to provide treatments that will have the greatest impact on the population’s health.
The transition to fully accountable value-based care.
It is not surprising the progress in the transformation to VBC has been largely incremental. The status quo is quite profitable for many health care organizations and leaders and the required change is monumental.
Pressure is mounting to accelerate the transition to FAVBC. Optum, an outspoken advocate for FAVBC, in their 2024 Health Care Trends Report makes a clear business and social case for the transition to fully accountable care. “Economics, regulatory pressure, workforce, and consumer demands, combined with breakthrough innovation to continue to transform the health care industry.”
The need for action; accelerate the transition.
