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John Rugge, CEO of Hudson Headwaters Health Network, and Dianne Shugrue, president and CEO of Glens Falls Hospital, spoke to business people at the annual EDC luncheon\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

BY ANDREA PALMER<\/p>\n

A major collaborative effort between
\nGlens Falls Hospital and Hudson Headwaters
\nHealth Network, in conjunction the
\nAdirondack Health Institute (AHI), was
\nannounced at the Economic Development
\nCorp. Warren County annual luncheon on
\nMay 8 at the Great Escape Lodge.<\/p>\n

The announcement involves AHI, founded
\nin 2011 and comprised of four corporate
\nowners: Glens Falls Hospital, Hudson Headwaters
\nHealth Network, Adirondack Health
\nin Saranac Lake and UVM Health Network-
\nChamplain Valley Physicians Hospital. The
\nnetwork includes approximately 100 provider
\nfacilities and 1,400 partners in an 11,000
\nsquare mile area that covers nine counties.
\nKeynote speakers Dianne Shugrue, president
\nand CEO of Glens Falls Hospital, and
\nDr. John Rugge, founding CEO of Hudson
\nHeadwaters Health Network, said AHI will
\nshare in $186.7 million in federal funding,
\nthrough the state, to redesign the health care
\nsystem to stabilize costs. Officials did not say how much of that funding will go through
\nAHI for the collaborative efforts between the
\nhospital and Hudson Headwaters.<\/p>\n

The funding is to be used over five years.<\/p>\n

The money will assist health care providers
\nmeet the state’s goal of reducing unnecessary
\nemergency room visits and hospital stays
\namong Medicaid patients by 25 percent.<\/p>\n

The state Medicaid system is changing
\nfrom a model based on fees for each service
\nto one where providers are paid a set fee,
\nwith incentive payments for meeting quality
\nstandards.<\/p>\n

Shugrue cited increases in healthcare
\ncosts grossly disproportionate to increases
\nin workers’ earnings as a need for an interdependent
\ncollaboration between the two
\nfacilities. The trickle-down result of the disparity
\nbetween healthcare costs and workers’
\nwages is a local economy negatively impacted
\nas a result of limited consumer spending.<\/p>\n

“Many of the economic problems we are
\nhaving in this country can be traced to many of the economic problems we are having
\nwithin the healthcare system. Our current
\nsystem of delivery, quality and access to
\nhealthcare, is simply unsustainable,” Shugrue
\nstated.<\/p>\n

Healthcare costs account for 18 percent
\nof the entire U.S. economy and have grown
\nexponentially faster than the rate of inflation
\nsince 1980, she said.<\/p>\n

Rugge cited enormous financial pressure
\non hospitals, primary care physicians and
\nspecialists in areas of demand destruction,
\ndisappearing margins and consolidation.
\nRugge stated a need for value-based payments
\nfor the consumer.<\/p>\n

“Healthcare in the United States is simply
\nnot a good value. Patients are facing high
\ncosts and mediocre outcomes. Reimbursement
\nfor providers has to change. We need to
\nmove from fee-for-service medicine towards
\npaying for the value of the outcome of the
\nservice provided,” he said.<\/p>\n

Shugrue and Rugge noted recent cooperative
\nefforts between Glens Falls Hospital
\nand Hudson Headwaters Health Network,
\nincluding palliative care, physician recruitment,
\nthe new health center in Warrensburg,
\nlaboratory services, graduate medical education
\nplanning and a 340B drug program for
\noncology patients.<\/p>\n

“There are many consistencies throughout
\nour two healthcare agencies. We complement
\neach other. Bottom line: We both exist to
\ndeliver health care to this community, to the
\nsame patients. We are both concerned about
\naccess to healthcare, rising costs and quality
\nof care being delivered. We are both challenged
\nwith redesign related to healthcare reform. It is imperative that we work together
\nto figure out how to transform healthcare
\nfor the patients that we both serve, to make
\nthis community strong and to make sure we
\nhave world class healthcare available in our
\nregion. We need to work together to do that,”
\nShugrue said.<\/p>\n

Rugge said the region depends on the
\nhospital for referral-based services and Hudson
\nHeadwaters for primary care. “Together,
\nwe can combine the care that our patients
\nreceive. It is indeed a working marriage.”<\/p>\n

“Hudson Headwaters is looking to be the
\nprimary care foundation for this region,” he
\nsaid. “Glens Falls Hospital will provide the
\nmost comprehensive hospital-based services
\navailable. We will continue to be the center
\nof health care in this economic center of the
\nregion and we hope to be a leading model
\nfor the rest of New York state. In addition
\nto the healthcare we are providing, we can
\nshare the responsibility in the economic
\nvitality and success of this community. If
\nwe don’t have the support of our community,
\nrepresentatives and businesses, we have no
\nfuture–and vice versa.”<\/p>\n

Edward Bartholomew, president and CEO
\nof EDC Warren County, said the healthcare
\nsystem in the region “provides jobs to over
\n3,500 employees, with millions of dollars
\nbeing driven into the local economy through
\nsalaries and benefits. Every hospital job
\nsupports two more jobs, and every hospital
\ndollar spent supports two more dollars spent
\nin additional business activity. That collaboration
\nis here with Glens Falls Hospital and
\nHudson Headwaters. They are both vibrant
\nand important parts of our economy.”<\/p>\n

Photo Courtesy of Warren County EDC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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