Commonwealth Care Alliance

In California, heart disease is the leading cause of death and high blood pressure, or hypertension, is one of the leading chronic conditions. Dr. Laura Clapper, Medical Director for CCA Health California, explains ways people can reduce their risk and how the community can play a role in combatting these conditions. Read the article in El Observador: https://lnkd.in/eUBJx2QT

Congratulations to Corey McCarty, General Manager for CCA Health Rhode Island for being named one of Providence Business News's 2024 C-Suite Award honorees! Since joining in 2021, Corey has expanded the team, opened CCA Health’s local headquarters in Davol Square in Providence, established a robust, highly accessible network of provider partners across the state, and led CCA Health in strategic partnerships to coordinate medical care and long-term services and supports. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e5VGa6Ej Pictured: Amanda Cassel Kraft, Melanie Cannon, Kevin McKay, Stephanie Gill, Corey McCarty, Marcy Reyes, Mark Waggoner

Today, CCA celebrates and recognizes our administrative professionals who are integral to our team and help advance our mission of improving the health and well-being of individuals with the most significant needs. Thank you for your continued support and dedication!

Nazlim Hagmann, CCA Chief Medical Officer, joined Dr. Lindsay Jubelt, Chief Population Health Officer at Mass General Brigham (MGB), for a conversation on improving health equity for underserved populations on FinThrive: The Healthcare Rethink Podcast. The conversation highlighted the Integrated Care Management Program (iCMP+) CCA and MGB partnered on to deliver in-home care to patients with high social health needs and significant medical needs, how the organizations are utilizing technology to reach members, and hurdles we need to overcome as a healthcare ecosystem to improve the health of underserved populations. Listen to the episode: https://lnkd.in/eJ7XqfNR

#FBF to myPlace Health’s recent opening of their first care center! Watch to see myPlace Health, SCAN, and Commonwealth Care Alliance leadership share how the new care center will help bring comprehensive care and coverage to vulnerable older adults within the Los Angeles community and enable independent living.

CCA is pleased to share that Matt Peary has joined the team this week as Senior Vice President of Strategic Finance and Transformation. In this role, Matt will provide leadership and direction for strategies and tactics that will improve our operations and financial performance, as well as oversee financial planning and budgeting, capital planning, investment management, procurement, and support of corporate development activities. Welcome to CCA, Matt!

In 2017, Commonwealth Care Alliance (CCA) founded the Center to Advance Consumer Partnership (CACP), an organization dedicated to facilitating authentic partnerships between health care organizations and the consumers they serve. CCA has been proud to serve as the incubator for CACP and today we are pleased to announce an important milestone for CACP as it becomes a standalone organization, led by its new President and CEO, Melinda Karp. “Partnering with organizations to leverage consumers as ‘experts by experience’ is not only central to our mission and vision; it is also an important component of our business model and strategy,” said Chris Palmieri, President and CEO of Commonwealth Care Alliance. “We look forward to remaining deeply engaged in the work of CACP as Melinda builds her team and engages with plans across the country to ensure that the voice of the member is at the forefront.” CACP works with innovative health care and human services leaders across the country to develop capabilities, build infrastructure, and cultivate relationships that ensure consumers become enduring organizational partners, invaluable to shaping strategy and action. To learn more visit CACP’s website https://lnkd.in/edsQp6Dv

CCA has received $150,000 in grant funding from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services to develop and facilitate health education programming for seniors in Holyoke and Springfield, Massachusetts. CCA will bring culturally and linguistically appropriate programming and support services to 865 residents across four senior affordable housing locations. Residents, regardless of their health insurer, will be invited to attend monthly in-person workshops, in English and Spanish, on fall prevention, nutrition, digital literacy, and more. “Through our longstanding work across the state, we have learned that individuals living in affordable senior housing often lack access to general health education and necessary support services. For Spanish speaking residents in Springfield and Holyoke in particular, language is a unique barrier that can be mitigated by CCA’s bilingual team. Broadly, this grant will allow CCA to further expand our commitment to providing comprehensive, community-centered services to seniors in Massachusetts,” says Mark Waggoner, General Manager for CCA Massachusetts. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eeae_Ktb

Today, Amy Helwig, CCA Chief Quality Officer, is speaking at the SNP Alliance Spring Roundtable with Deb Paone, Performance Evaluation Lead and Policy Consultant for SNP Alliance to discuss the Health Equity Index (HEI). The discussion will focus on how the HEI is being utilized by CCA to support current efforts around health equity, provide relevant benchmarks, and inform quality improvements to reduce health disparities.

Please join Commonwealth Care Alliance in officially welcoming Erik Helms to the CCA team. Serving as our Senior Vice President of Provider Contracting and Performance since the beginning of 2024, Erik has joined our organization to support our mission of improving the health and well-being of people with the most significant needs in our communities. He will be deepening our relationships with providers across our markets and leading efforts that mutually benefit CCA’s members and our network providers who care for them. Erik’s immediate priorities at CCA are growing and expanding our provider network, leading CCA’s value-based contracting transformation strategy, and enhancing our provider network performance and partnership development. Welcome to CCA, Erik!