Community Quality Alliance
In an effort to assure that patients in Northwest Arkansas receive the highest quality care, Northwest Health has partnered with independent and employed physicians from across the region to develop a clinically integrated network (CIN). A CIN is a coalition of healthcare providers who work together in an aligned delivery network to improve the quality of care provided and improve the health outcomes of our community while controlling the total cost of care. The Community Quality Alliance (formerly Northwest-Sparks Quality Alliance) is governed by employed and community physicians working collaboratively to assure patients receive the highest quality and safest care.
Through the Community Quality Alliance, Northwest Health is moving towards a more collaborative way of providing care, working with patients, providers and payers to build a care system that coordinates the patient’s care across the community. Under value-based care models, providers are rewarded for helping patients accomplish three primary objectives: improve their health, reduce the effects and incidence of chronic disease and control the total cost of care where possible. It refocuses the way providers are paid for care since pay is based in part on whether the highest quality care is provided in the most appropriate setting at the right time.
To help achieve these goals, Northwest Health founded the Community Quality Alliance, one of the state’s first clinically integrated networks (CIN), in 2016. In 2018, the organization launched a Medicare Shared Savings Program Accountable Care Organization (ACO), Community Health Alliance of the Ozarks. Both of these organizations continue to develop by expanding the footprint of providers engaged in our strategic alignment and through additional partnerships with national and state health insurance providers. Since the CIN’s inception in 2016 and the Medicare ACO in 2018, the two value-based organizations have saved health insurers in our community over $25,000,000 in healthcare costs through collaboration with our hospital and physician partners as well as engagement with key patients.
For more information, contact the CQA team at (479) 757-8087 or at CQA@nw-health.com.
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A provider’s participation can change and updates may not immediately be reflected in this directory. It is the member’s responsibility, when requesting service, to ensure that a provider currently participates as an in-network provider for his/her employer’s health plan.