Wisconsin Campaign for Better Care
It’s now time for healthcare professionals and consumers to come to-gether to help reshape, reshape and improve health care outcomes and patient centered care in Wisconsin. As of today, 59 national organizations and their state affiliates, representing hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites, have come together to form the Wisconsin Campaign for Better Care and the Wisconsin Blue Ribbon Citizens Task Force for quality health care outcomes and patient safety, which takes the essential next steps for patient centered care.
The Wisconsin Campaign will work to ensure that the needs of patients and their family caregivers are front and center in the delivery of health care. Special attention will be given to those vulnerable people and older adults with multiple health conditions so they receive comprehensive, coordinated, and patient family-centered health care they want and deserve.
Successful health care requires putting patients first and improving how their care is delivered. This is particularly important for people with multiple chronic conditions who make the heaviest use of the health care system at the highest cost but with the poorest outcomes. While these complex patients exist in every age group, they are heavily concentrated among older adults.
The Wisconsin Campaign for Better Care and it’s Blue Ribbon Citizen Task Force, will go beyond the statistics about chronic illness to put a human face on the issue, to mobilize and engage patients and families to advocate for the care they want and need, and to bring the voice of the consumer to the public policy discussions over how to improve health care delivery in Wisconsin. The goals of the Campaign are to:
1. Make recommendations that will improve the health care system so that it delivers high quality, comprehensive, and coordinated care, especially for vulnerable older adults and people with chronic conditions.
2. Change the fee for service compensation for health care providers and replace it with quality measures, patient safety and quality outcomes and prevention and wellness.
3. Address the need for coordinated and continuity of care through increasing the number of primary care providers who will triage people through today’s complex and confusing health care system in Wisconsin.
4. Advocating for greater insurance coverage for wellness and prevention health care programs.
5. Build an effective and a sustainable health care consumer voice for quality health care by mobilizing consumers, health care professionals, young and older adults, their families and community leaders.
Diagram of the Blue Ribbon Citizen Task Force on Patient Centered Care
