Best Practices Collaborative

The American Medical Group Association’s Best Practices Learning Collaborative is for organizations that strive to improve the care of patients with hypertension. Medical groups, IPAs, academic practices, and integrated delivery systems interested in expanding an existing program or initiating a new program focused on the management of hypertension in their chronic care models are encouraged to submit a case study.

Up to 20 groups are invited to participate in the learning collaborative; 10 will receive $20,000 grants (over a two-year period) to support their initiatives; an additional 10 organizations will receive travel stipends to attend the collaborative meetings. All organizations receiving grants as well as ANY provider organizations conducting independent projects can request to be a part of the learning collaborative provided their projects meet the basic criteria.

An expert panel of judges reviews each case study submitted and select those that merit publication as a Best Practice. The judges look for hypertension programs from small, medium, and large practices that meet the following criteria:

Care provided in an outpatient setting
Patient care is coordinated across the continuum of services
Program results in significant improvements in patient health
Program engages the entire care team (doctors including generalists and specialists, nurses, administrative staff, pharmacy, patients, etc.)
Program that allows for efficient, ongoing measurement and reporting
Project design is practical and addresses program goals
Intervention(s) are transferrable to other practice settings

For more information, download a copy of the Call for Case Studies.

2007 Learning Collaborative Results

Below are the PowerPoint presentations that were presented at the 2007 Managing Hypertension Learning Collaborative Wrap-Up Meeting, April 12-13, 2007, in Alexandria, VA.

Albert Lea Medical Center- Mayo Health
High Blood Pressure-HBPLowering the Bar
Fletcher Allen Health Care
Getting to Goal: Patient Physician Clinical Interactions to achieve BP Control in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
Mercy Clinics Inc.
Best Practices in Hypertension Care
PriMed Physicians
Achieving 90% Success in HTN Management
Providence Medical Group
Hypertension Self-Management Group Class
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Linking Patient Safety and Quality Goals While Optimizing Care:
Medication Reconciliation in Hypertension
ThedaCare
Improving Hypertension Control

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