TY - JOUR T1 - Advanced Primary Care in San Antonio: Linking Practice and Community Strategies to Improve Health JF - The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine JO - J Am Board Fam Med SP - 288 LP - 298 DO - 10.3122/jabfm.2013.03.120238 VL - 26 IS - 3 AU - Robert L. Ferrer AU - Carolina Gonzalez Schlenker AU - Raquel Lozano Romero AU - Ramin Poursani AU - Oralia Bazaldua AU - DeWayne Davidson AU - Melissa Ann Gonzales AU - Janie DeHoyos AU - Martha Castilla AU - Betty A. Corona AU - James Tysinger AU - Bryan Alsip AU - Jonathan Trejo AU - Carlos Roberto JaƩn Y1 - 2013/05/01 UR - http://www.jabfm.org/content/26/3/288.abstract N2 - Improving health among people living in poverty often transcends narrowly focused illness care. Meaningful success is unlikely without confronting the complex social origins of illness. We describe an emerging community of solution to improve health outcomes for a population of 6000 San Antonio, Texas, residents enrolled in a county health care program. The community of solution comprises a county health system, a family medicine residency program, a metropolitan public health department, and local nonprofit organizations and businesses. Community-based activities responding to the needs of individuals and their neighborhoods are driven by a cohort of promotores (community health workers) whose mission encompasses change at both the individual and community levels. Centered on patients' functional goals, promotores mobilize family and community resources and consider what community-level action will address the social determinants of health. On the clinical side, care teams implement population-based risk assessment and nurse care management with a focus on care transitions as well as other measures to meet the needs of patients with high morbidity and high use of health care. Population-based outcome metrics include reductions in hospitalizations, emergency department and urgent care visits, and the associated charges. Promotores also assess patients' progress along the trajectory of their selected functional goals. ER -