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"I love it when patients come in and they bring their list of questions, or they ask me ‘Should I have this test?’ or ‘Why are we doing this?’ That makes the relationship, that makes managing this chronic problem together, a lot better."

‒ Dr. E. Harry Walker
MetroHealth Center for Community Health

Did You Know?

Research shows that patients with heart failure have four times the risk of bone fractures and 6.3 times the risk of hip fracture as other heart patients. If you have heart failure, ask your doctor about a bone density test to screen for osteoporosis.

Achievement in Uninsured Patients

The tables that follow provide information on individual practice sites’ achievement on Better Health’s Composite Outcome and Care Process Standards by insurance category. The practices that are reported in each table include those for which we have measures for at least 50 patients of the given insurance type; thus, the number of sites reported will vary by insurance type. In addition, as described earlier, because our sampling of sites with paper-based records does not enable us to provide a confident estimate of achievement by insurance groupings, these sites are not included in the tables.

We separately report relevant practices’ achievement for patients covered by Medicare, for Commercially insured patients, for Medicaid patients, and for uninsured patients.

The tables on this page describe the achievement among Uninsured patients for our 10 electronic medical records-based practices who cared for at least 50 Uninsured patients with diabetes in July 2007 - June 2008.  As before, exceptional achievement is highlighted by stars. 

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Table 6a.  Achievement for UNINSURED patients on Composite Outcome and Care Process Standards for July 2007 - June 2008 for 10 EMR-based Practices with at least 50 UNINSURED patients. 
Sorted alphabetically by practice. 
System codes: CC - Cleveland Clinic, KP - Kaiser Permanente, MH - The MetroHealth System


 

Table 6b.  Achievement for UNINSURED patients on Composite Outcome and Care Process Standards for July 2007 - June 2008 for 10 EMR-based Practices with at least 50 UNINSURED patients. 
Sorted by Achievement on Outcomes standard. 
System codes: CC - Cleveland Clinic, KP - Kaiser Permanente, MH - The MetroHealth System

 
 

Table 6c.  Achievement for UNINSURED patients on Composite Outcome and Care Process Standards for July 2007 - June 2008 for 10 EMR-based Practices with at least 50 UNINSURED patients. 
Sorted by Achievement on Care Processes standard. 
System codes: CC - Cleveland Clinic, KP - Kaiser Permanente, MH - The MetroHealth System