Case : Pineridge Quality Alliance, A Case Study in Clinical Integration and Population Health
CASE STUDY QUESTIONS
1- Briefly explain the forces that led Pineridge Medical Center to launch PQA.
2- List and evaluate the structures and tools PQA employs to improve patient quality and increase provider accountability.
3- What evidence shows that PQA follows best practices?
4- Explain why more hospitals in southeast Idaho have not joined PQA.
5- How would you recruit more hospitals and clinicians in southeast Idaho, and how would you market PQA to them and other stakeholders?
6- Develop a timeline showing PQA’s key accomplishments.
7- How would you prioritize and operationalize PQA’s proposed 2017–2019 goals?
8- You have been assigned by the PQA board to analyze the network’s readiness to participate in Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services-sponsored accountable care organization programs. What criteria can be used to determine its readiness?