Overview of Part Three: Our Practices

In Part Three of the Community Health Checkup, we describe characteristics of our partner practices, including selected characteristics of our adult patients with diabetes. Practice locations and selected services at each site are available here.  Detailed comparative data on the achievement of partner practices on our Composite Process and Outcome Standards are reported, as are data pertaining to practice achievement on individual standards. Practices whose measures are derived from their electronic medical records (EMR sites: 31 practices of Cleveland Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, and The MetroHealth System) are reported separately from practices whose measures are based on review of their paper-based medical records (PBR sites of Care Alliance, Huron Hospital, Neighborhood Family Practice, and Northeast Ohio Neighborhood Health Services (NEON)).

Reports of achievement by insurance category (Medicare, Commercial, Medicaid, Uninsured) include only those sites for which data pertaining to 50 or more patients of that insurance type were available. For the paper-based practices, we reviewed the records of 100 patients of each organization in order to have a representative “snapshot” of overall achievement on Better Health’s standards, but for statistical reasons, we do not report these organizations’ achievement within insurance sub-groups. In reports on our Composite Process and Outcome Standards, we identify with a star those sites that are in approximately the top decile (10%) in achievement of relevant organizations.