What the Stakeholders are saying...
Mayor of Sacramento
“Thank you for sharing your innovative approach to reducing the cost of health care by enabling community and faith-based organizations to provide efficient access to medical treatment facilities and information to assist a change in patient behavior. I’m convinced that making health care delivery information available at the grass roots level will be a significant step forward in addressing the long term costs and health needs of underserved communities. Clearly, community clinics play an increasingly important and pivotal role in local health care delivery.
[The Health Reform Coalition] offers the opportunity to do even more with these clinics, by enhancing their ability to change patient behavior and achieve better long term health outcomes. The Nation and the Administration would be well served by supporting such initiatives. Compared to current cost estimates, the cost is negligible.
Moreover, the impact of this grass-roots approach provides a real and measurable solution to the long-term cost of healthcare by focusing resources on providing efficient access to healthcare and changing patient behavior.
I’m excited about the potential opportunity to deploy PHIERS in Sacramento by virtue of the combined strengths of your Pastors Association in collaboration with the Jewish community. This is exactly the kind of city-community partnerships we have been seeking and I fully support a Sacramento-based PHIERS demonstration project.”
Presiding Elder of the AME Church
“The Health Reform Coalition represents the kind of innovation and utilization of resources that is needed while policymakers wrestle with complexities of providing universal health care. The Health Reform Coalition is a smart approach to the delivery of personalized public health information and resources.
Given increasing healthcare cost pressures across the board, community-based initiatives that empower preventive health, wellness, patient education and personal health maintenance offers every opportunity for significant healthcare cost reductions, while addressing patients needs where they live, work, and worship. By demonstrating that PHIERS can help us reduce the burdens on our already overtaxed hospitals and emergency rooms, the coalition offers a real opportunity to reduce costs up to six-fold since patients won’t be treating emergency rooms as their primary care facility. By addressing this issue alone, the Health Care Reform Coalition initiates strategies that will bring about reform solutions. For these reasons, we offer our unconditional support for their efforts.”
California Pastor's Association
“We enthusiastically support your proposal to conduct a demonstration of the Personalized Health Information Education and Retention Solution (PHIERS) and agree that a scalable, high-impact, low-risk initiative has the potential to address some of our most pressing healthcare challenges facing our communities and the underserved.
The further down the chain we can get customers and patients to embrace preventive care, find the right, and relevant, healthcare information, embrace it and act upon it, the more we will empower local communities, community centers, and clinics to act as the first line of healthcare defense.
We must find better ways to streamline collaboration along the entire healthcare value stream. The Coalition's focus on building community, awareness, stewardship, partnership, and follow through at the local level strongly appeals to us.
No single national health care solution will address the full magnitude of today’s health care challenges. We have always believed that it will be entrepreneurs such as yourself who hold the key to resolving the critical issues of service and cost. We are, therefore, prepared to underwrite a PHIERS demonstration project in one of our local communities.”
Chabad Lubavitch of Sacramento
“We are always looking for new opportunities to help our community and improve lives. Until now, Chabad of Sacramento has not been active in the health care arena, but we understand that this is one of the greatest concerns facing families.
The Program is called PHIERS, and it creates partnerships between community and public health service providers, while focusing the delivery of preventive, wellness and treatment information on our community's elderly and uninsured - the very neighbors, friends and co-workers we may have that cannot afford quality health care for their family. What's particularly attractive about this solution is that it has a real chance of improving healthcare right where people live, learn, work and worship - while significantly reducing costs across the entire healthcare chain.”
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