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The 2017 Hearst Health Prize is awarded to an organization or individual for their outstanding contributions towards improvement in the United States’ population health.
Intermountain was chosen as a finalist from a highly competitive field based on their achievements in mental health integration. Approximately 43 million American adults (18 percent of the total adult population) suffer from mental illness. Starting in 2000, Intermountain embedded mental health screening and treatment into primary care and select specialty practices, utilizing a team-based approach to help patients and their families manage the complexity of both mental and physical health.
Impact of program, based on a retrospective longitudinal cohort study between 2003 and 2013 (data of 113,453 unique patients) comparing Team-Based Care to Traditional Practice Medicine:
Patients in team-based medical practices also used fewer healthcare services and had lower total costs, according to the study. Data showed that per 100 person years:
The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association and the Quality Maternity Quality Care Collaborative at Stanford University are the other finalists. The three finalists will present 17th Annual Population Health Colloquium in Philadelphia on March 27, 2017 at a poster session. The $100,000 Hearst Health Prize will be awarded the next morning.
Additional information about the Hearst Health Award at http://www.jefferson.edu/HearstHealthPrize.
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