In this ASA Aging Today article from September-October 2016, Robert J. Schreiber, M.D., a practicing geriatrician and Medical Director of the Healthy Living Center for Excellence (HLCE), makes the case that community-based organizations (CBOs) need to adapt their approach to a value-based business model to maintain and–or improve their standing with health care payers and providers. New prototypes need to be developed, tested and rapidly replicated to meet this challenge.

Schreiber highlights the expanded Chronic Care Model (CCM) as an example of an evidence-based care paradigm that has proven that communities, CBOs and the health care system can engage collaboratively in decision support, self-management and redesign of information systems and delivery systems to improve the care of those with chronic illnesses. Building upon this example, the article goes on to lay out key next steps that CBOs should take in order to prepare themselves to be a full player in the new integrated health care environment.

View the resource: Community-Based Prototypes Play an Integral Role in Effecting Lasting Health Care Change