Lolina has a depth of experience with planning, implementing and evaluating innovative programming that captures the value of public health and primary care partnerships.
Public health and primary care have complementary missions and strengths that, if working in partnership, optimize population health and reduce health care costs. Lolina strives to raise awareness of the benefits and value of public health and primary care partnerships and assists clients with strategically planning and expanding capacity for these partnerships. Lolina has a depth of experience with planning, implementing and evaluating innovative programming that captures the value of these partnerships.
According to the Institute of Medicine, the time is NOW to seize opportunities for collaboration because:
• More health research is indicating the essential nature of the social determinants of health and the impact of primary prevention
• Moving health care beyond the walls of a clinic with community health teams is a model gaining traction with improved health outcomes
• The expansion of electronic medical records houses a new wealth of data
• The Affordable Care Act is a prime opportunity to revamp approaches to individual and population health
• Alignment of a common goal is more likely to achieve substantial and lasting improvements in population health
Strengths that Public Health brings to a partnership:
• Collects, monitors and evaluates community health data
• Emphasis on primary prevention
• Addresses social determinant of health to promote health equity
• Recommend, implement, & enforce policy
• Raise public awareness
• Creates educational tools
• Implements programs with interventions at every level (individual, family, community, systems
• Coordinates community based programming
• Conduct research
• Coordinate agreement on standard treatment protocols
Strengths that Primary Care brings to a partnership:
• Serves on the frontlines of medical care for individual patients
• Conducts screening, diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic illness and disease
• Education of individual patients
• House individual patient data
• A credible, visible and trusted source of information
Contact Lolina today to inquire further or schedule time to discuss how Lolina can assist you in pairing Public Health & Primary Care for Positive Community Impact.
