Webinar took place Monday, February 13, 2012 from 2:00-3:00pm ET entitled "Managing High-Risk Patients in ACOs". Chad Boult, MD, MPH, MBA, described the Guided Care model and discuss how it can work within accountable care organizations (ACOs) to reduce health service utilization while improving the quality of care and provider satisfaction. Guided Care is a comprehensive, team-based model of primary care in which a registered nurse, co-located in a primary care practice, partners with 2-5 physicians to provide coordinated, patient-centered care to 50-60 patients with multiple chronic conditions. Dr. Boult will also describe several forms of technical assistance that are available for free to practices that plan to implement the Guided Care model or the principles of Guided Care as they develop into ACOs.
Dr. Chad Boult is a Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He also holds joint appointments on the faculties of the Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Nursing. He is a teacher, a researcher and a board-certified physician in Family Medicine and Geriatrics. Dr. Boult has extensive experience in developing, testing, evaluating, and diffusing new models of health care for older persons with chronic conditions, most recently the Guided Care model. He has published two books and more than 80 articles in biomedical scientific journals. read more
