Scaling Whole Health in Primary Care: Value-Based Care + Lifestyle Medicine
Grantee: American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation
Year Funded: 2024
Amount: $125,130
Report Status: In Process
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Project Summary: The AAFP proposes that it host a multi-stakeholder convening on Whole Health and Primary Care with the primary goal of addressing how to scale and sustain adoption of “whole health care” approaches in primary care that are compatible with value-based payment. The primary mechanisms of change that are in-scope for the convening include training and payment (reimbursement). The convening will target organizations and individuals in the public and private sector with decision-making authority or influence over relevant payment and workforce training policies and/or practices.
Specific goals of the convening include the following:
Identify and connect related whole health and whole health care initiatives that have the potential to scale further, faster by being connected with one another and/or working together rather than separately.
Identify barriers or obstacles that could slow or thwart progress toward adoption of whole health approaches in primary care.
Develop consensus statements that reflect broader aims of whole health for primary care patients and clinicians to guide individual efforts.
Position family and other primary care physicians as change agents and leaders in the shift to whole health and health care.
Identify resources that enable the adoption of a whole health primary care orientation targeting individual physicians, primary care practices and the organizations that support them including hospital/health systems, private equity/investors.
