2006-2007 Learning Collaborative

Best Practices Compendium

The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) Best Practices in Managing Hypertension Compendium features Collaborative groups and their case studies.

2006 Best Practices Learning Collaborative and the 2007 Best Practices Compendium

• The Hypertension Improvement Project
  Cleveland Clinic Medicine Institute, Independence, OH

• Getting to Goal: Patient Physician Clinic Interactions to Achieve Blood Pressure Control in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
  Fletcher Allen Health Care/University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

• Patient-Directed Blood Pressure (BP) Control in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
  Fletcher Allen Health Care/University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

• Controlling High Blood Pressure
  Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic States, Rockville, MD

• Best Practices in Hypertension Care
  Mercy Clinics Inc., Des Moines, IA

• Identifying Barriers to Hypertension Care: Implications for Quality Improvement Initiatives
  Novant Health/Novant Medical Group, Winston-Salem, NC

• Hypertension Project Plan and Outcomes
  PriMed Physicians, Dayton, OH

• Developing Effective Interventions to Support Patient and Provider Co-Management of Hypertension
  Providence Medical Group, Beaverton, OR

2010 Best Practices Symposium

• Hypertension Best Practices
  Allina Medical Clinic, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN

• Creating Best Practices in Managing Hypertension
  Billings Clinic, Billings, MT

• RN Hypertension Management Pilot
  Essentia Health: East Region, Duluth, MN

• Getting Blood Pressure to Goal in CKD  Patients: A Proactive Approach
  Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, VT

• Hypertension Best Practices
  Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic States, Rockville, MD

• Hypertension Best Practices
  Mercy Clinics, Des Moines, IA

• Hypertension Best Practices
  PriMed Physicians, Dayton, OH

• Hypertension Best Practices
  Riverside Medial Group, Newport News, VA

• Hypertension Best Practices
  Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group, San Diego, CA

• Improving Hypertension Control
  ThedCare Physicians, Appleton, WI

• My Health Team at Vanderbilt
  The Vanderbilt Medical Group, Nashville, TN