Preferredone Community Health Plan

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2010 to Dec 31, 2010

Signed

Oct 31, 2011

Return Version

2010v3.4

Gross Receipts

$167,362,776

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Participation in collaborative and community projectspreferredone takes pride in being directly involved in community activities that impact our members in the communities they live and work. In an effort to create consistency among provider networks in our community and improve the delivery of health care to our members preferredone participates in several collaborative activities:minnesota community measurement (mcm) is a collaboration among health plans and provider groups designed to improve the quality of medical care in minnesota. Mcm improves care by:- reporting the results of health care quality improvement efforts in a fair and reliable way to medical groups, regulators, purchasers and consumers.- providing resources to providers and consumers to improve care.- increasing the efficiencies of health care reporting in order to use our health care dollars wisely.preferredone is one of seven health plan founding members of minnesota community measurement. The state medical association, participating medical groups, consumers, businesses and health plans are all represented on the organization's board of directors. Data is supplied by participating health plans on an annual basis for use in developing their annual health care quality report.minnesota council of health plans (mchp) is a non-profit trade association representing minnesota health plan organizations. The council promotes the delivery of high-quality, affordable health care. Health plans members are active in the areas of health care reform, research-based guideline development, community health and prevention, medical technology assessment and health care quality data collection.preferredone staff members serve on various committees through the mchp including community health, health policy and medical issues.the minnesota alliance for patient safety (maps) is a partnership among the minnesota hospital association, the minnesota medical association, the minnesota department of health and more than 50 other public-private health care organizations working together to improve patient safety. Maps mission is to promote optimum patient safety through collaborative and supportive efforts among all participants of the health care system in minnesota. The goal of maps is to improve the culture for patient safety and mobilize community resources for patient safety. Preferredone is an active partner in maps efforts. The diamond initiative is a collaboration with local health plans and the department of human services in minnesota to develop an evidenced-based best practice model for structured collaborative follow-up care management of adults with depression in primary care; with the long-term goal being to create a care management program that is sustainable and applicable to other chronic diseases. Preferredone is also participating in the parallel research study designed to investigate the outcomes of the diamond initiative.echo (emergency and community health outreach) is a collaborative that includes public health and safety agencies across minnesota, ethnic advisory organizations and non-profit groups. It is spearheaded by saint paul-ramsey county public health, hennepin county public health protection, the minnesota department of health and other agencies charged with public health emergency preparedness. Echo provides health and safety information in multiple languages by fax, phone, on television and on the web during emergency and non-emergency times to people with limited english language skills. Echo was created to address the concern that new systems were needed to help all minnesotans stay and healthy as hundreds of thousands of immigrants and refugees from vastly different cultures and climates make this state home. New residents need information on specific health and safety issues that occur here, and methods were needed to reach limited-english speakers in a statewide emergency such as the outbreak of a highly contagious disease like sars, or a man-ma

Activity 3

Organizational support for employee volunteer eventspreferredone supports community involvement throughout the organization. Events are employee-driven, with the organization enabling or providing employee time and/or financial support to encourage volunteerism. Examples include:- adopt-a-family (preferredone employees sponsor families during the holiday season)- united way- on-site blood drives- collection of school supplies to benefit step (st. Louis park emergency program)- toys for tots

Filer

EIN

41-1796007