Camden Wealth: A Case Study

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Camden is an example of this type of place-based approach. Camden is among the poorest city in the United States. It population face high rate of poverty and often lack access to care, with high utilizers of ER and hospital visits for preventable conditions that are treatable by a primary provider. As a result, individuals have difficulty accessing primary care along with a number of “behavioral, social, and medical issues” (Heiman & Artiga, 2015). The Camden Coalition used data to identify a small group of patients who had consumed a large quantity of medical resources and limited assets. Using these finding, the coalition designed and implemented a citywide health-information exchange, to coordinate care and locate patients in needs of intervention.

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