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The SC Health Coordinating Council (SCHCC) welcomes new member, the SC Nurses Association (SCNA). The SCHCC is a coalition of 40+ senior leaders of the major associations of businesses, consumers, and health care providers, government agencies in human and health services, philanthropic organizations, academics, and policy analysts. Aware of the poor health status of South Carolinians, and the necessity to work together in order to change it, they have spent the last two years researching and reaching agreement on the health priorities that they could impact in the years to come. With a closely aligned purpose of better health and healthcare for all people, The SCNA will be a valued member of SCHCC, providing integral insight and guidance in achieving our j±na Gallego mutual goals through collective impact.
All SCHCC metrics are in terms of outcomes, and each organization can decide which strategies to use to get there. However, even though there are a thousand ways to get to Rome, some routes are better than others; so the SCHCC invites every organization to be open to discover, share, and learn what are the most effective ways and work together to use those that will help us achieve these goals as soon as possible.
The goals of the SCHCC were developed using the Triple Aim framework, which calls for the simultaneous achievement of,
* better health outcomes for the population, and better distribution of such outcomes within the population
* better experience of care for patients
* lower per capita cost
Nurses' education and practice was in concert with the Triple Aim philosophy even before there was a coined term for it; so there are countless ways for nurses to align with these efforts. Here some of them.
Improve the health of all moms and babies from pre-conception to the first year of life, at a lower per capita cost.
What can you do to help at risk women be healthy before and during pregnancy?
* Birth Outcomes Initiative (BOI): South Carolina has a collaborative group that meets every second Wednesday of the month at the SC Hospital Association from 10:30am to 12:30pm. It has over 100 regular attendees who work in services for moms...