COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY HEALTH COLLABORATIVE
INFORM INVOLVE INTERVENE IMPROVE
Being patient centered is the
BASELINE
Being patient forward is the
AMBITION
The U.S. healthcare system has pursued a partnership between the provider and the health consumer since the 1990's. This patient-centered approach is meant to establish respect for patient desires, needs, and preferences within their individual course of treatment. That intent has not led to improved value or eliminated disparities in our health system. At CPHC, we advocate for a patient-forward approach that purposefully balances metrics of success from the consumer's point of view with system defined outcomes. Through relational patient feedback, standardized patient-facing data, and transparency of process, our engagements seek to support health consumers as investors in the healthcare system.
HEALTH IS AN ASSET.
The presence of health allows individuals to live a full life in terms of productivity, cultural potential, human capital, and overall quality of life. Health allows communities to thrive from economic viability, reduced burden on social services, and overall social cohesion. Every individual and community has capacity for health, though in order to translate that potential into actualized health they must be (1) essentially positioned within the health discourse and (2) appropriately resourced to overcome their barriers to health.
Our Collaborative is built on a foundation of Community Psychology (CP) because the discipline prescribes to tenets that would benefit our health system. As an asset-based science grounded in the principles of ecology, depowerment, and community-based traditional knowledge, CP forces us to re-prioritize performance improvement for health and healthcare. It allows us to first seek respect, understanding, and shared governance with communities, then build towards an improved population health status.
PATIENTS ARE PEOPLE.
Diagnosis of a health ailment often leads patients to be 'othered'. Patients have reported not being valued for their education, experience, and previous accomplishments once diagnosed with a chronic disease. Worse yet, those marginalized patients that have achieved impressive outcomes despite their socio-demographic, economic or disability barriers are rarely tapped to improve the outcomes of future health consumers in similar circumstances.
CPHC endeavors to mine that untapped potential within health consumers to improve health system processes.
