But what makes Geisinger unique is the patients and communities who are the focus of everything — our essential partners.
We have many exciting initiatives with our patients, but two foundational levers for better health are the Proven Portfolio, focused on delivering the best care every time with every patient, and MyCode, which targets understanding — and tailoring treatment based on — genetic influences on health.
We started ProvenCare in , identifying and consistently providing the best treatment for a specific condition to deliver better care at lower cost. It includes fixed payments and a day warranty; if a patient needs more treatment, Geisinger covers the costs.
ProvenCare began with elective coronary artery bypass surgery, expanded to hip and knee replacements and other surgeries, and then on to chronic conditions. ProvenCare delivered great quality and safety, but during a period of rapid expansion, we lost focus on consistently providing compassionate care. That was the impetus for ProvenExperience , which guarantees the best experience for every patient, every time. MyCode began in and is now the biggest biobank in existence - with potential to make healthcare better for patients not just at Geisinger, but around the world.
About 90 percent of the patients we ask let us look at their entire genomes. Our patients come from an unusually stable population — giving us volumes of data from more than 15 years of electronic health records. MyCode therefore provides unprecedented opportunity for early diagnosis and developing new and tailored treatments, or precision medicine.
MyCode is already letting us help participants and their families prevent or mitigate the impacts of some identified genetic risk factors, including cancer and heart disease. Although Geisinger has moved the needle for quality care and access to service, we see growing need to remove other barriers to health. The region we serve has struggled economically for decades; community health status proves that zip codes and income levels are as essential health predictors as cholesterol levels or BMI.
Our communities have big problems with diabetes, heart disease, opioid addiction — all issues we should be able to prevent. So, just as we tackle genomic factors, we must address social issues like poverty, and food deserts, environmental factors… everything that makes it hard to achieve and maintain wellness — for individuals, and for our communities. We need to understand and tailor our approaches to reflect the growing diversity of our populations to deliver culturally competent care.
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine Geisinger Commonwealth offers a community-based model of undergraduate medical education with campuses in Scranton, Danville, Sayre and Wilkes-Barre. The school also has more than trainees in 24 graduate medical education programs and offers 19 accredited fellowships from addiction medicine to vascular surgery.
Self-funded plans are sold through Geisinger Indemnity Insurance Company. Throughout the Geisinger system, we have hundreds of community sites that support our community-care focus. In addition to our physical locations, we serve patients in their homes through our Geisinger at Home program. Community sites are supported by physicians, advanced practice, nursing and nursing support, administrative professionals and others.
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