Finalists in the Innovative Approach to the Delivery of Healthcare Category
Alameda County Medical Center
 Wright Lassiter, III, CEO
Oakland, CA

Alameda County Medical Center’s Rapid Entry and Accelerated Care at Triage (REACT) program has increased capacity, efficiency, and throughput in the emergency department. It is a multi-step process developed on the concept of “the right patient receiving the right care at the right time."

About Alameda County Medical Center
Alameda County Medical Center is a comprehensive public health authority comprised of three hospitals and three freestanding ambulatory clinics. It carries a total bed license of 475, and its acute care facilities include Highland Hospital, a 236-bed trauma and teaching facility; John George Psychiatric Pavilion, an 80-bed acute facility; and Fairmont Hospital, a 159-bed skilled nursing and acute rehabilitation hospital. The system also includes numerous freestanding primary care and specialty clinics.

 

Sutter Health Partners
Margaret Sabin, CEO
Sacramento, CA
Sutter Health Partners’ LIVE WELL FOR LIFE program focuses on identifying the predictors of disease and intervening before disease status is reached. Used by 18,000 clients, the program is based on a personal health assessment and one-on-one wellness coaching, facilitated by e-health tools and interactive operability to extend the coach’s influence.

About Sutter Health Partners
 Sutter Health Partners' Live Well for Life is the wellness coaching division of Sutter Health, a highly respected family of not-for-profit hospitals and physician organizations serving Northern California. Sutter Health Partners offers programs that identify and target healthcare issues and costs within a company's workforce. Sutter Health Partners then helps clients address those issues through a unique high-touch wellness coaching program designed to keep workforces healthy and productive.

 

WellPoint’s Lumenos
Charlton "Chip" Tooke, Founder of Lumenos
Alexandria, VA

WellPoint’s Lumenos created one of the first Consumer Directed Health Plans. By enabling consumers to take a more proactive roll in managing – and paying for – their own healthcare, Lumenos spurred providers to be more transparent in pricing their services. Their latest offering is a Zagat Health Survey for patients to review and evaluate their physicians.

About WellPoint, Inc.
WellPoint's mission is to improve the lives of the people it serves and the health of its communities. WellPoint, Inc. is the largest health benefits company in terms of commercial membership in the United States. Through its nationwide networks, the company delivers a number of leading health benefit solutions through a broad portfolio of integrated health care plans and related services, along with a wide range of specialty products such as life and disability insurance benefits, pharmacy benefit management, dental, vision, behavioral health benefit services, as well as long term care insurance and flexible spending accounts.