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(Continuing the Hinton Daily News The Weekend Leader)
Home ’of “W. Va. Water Festival” . . »-
- Care Providers loin Successful,
cutting-Edge Federal Initiative
Last week, the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services
(CMS) announced that in 2016, a
total of 36,814 Medicare
beneficiaries will be served by
Medicare Accountable Care
Organizations (ACOs) in West
Virginia.
ACOs are groups of doctors and
hospitals that join together to
develop and execute a plan for a
patient's care and share
information, putting the patient at
the center of the health care delivery
system.
The ACOs are paid not based on
how many tests or procedures are
performed but by the success of the
treatment administered.
ACOs were created to change the
incentives for how medical care is
paid for in the US, moving away
from a system that rewards the
quantity of services to one that
rewards the quality of health
outcomes.
The following Medicare ACOs
will be serving Medicare
beneficiaries in West Virginia:
O Aledade West Virginia ACO,
LLC
0 Genesis Healthcare ACO, LLC
I National Rural ACO 14 LLC
0 Ohio Integrated Care Providers,
LLC
*' Note that a number of ACOs Will
serve Medicare beneficiaries across
state lines.
"People in West Virginia will get
better care and we will spend our
health care dollars more wisely
because these hospitals and
providers have made a commitment
‘ to change how they do business and
work with patients," HHS Secretary
Sylvia M. Burwell said.
"We are moving Medicare and the
entire health care system toward
paying providers based on the
quality, rather than the quantity of
care they give patients.
The three new ACO initiatives
being launched today mark an
important step forward in this
effort."
Many Americans who have gotten
ill or injured have experienced a
situation where they have been
shuttled from hospital to doctor's
office to doctor's office, often
enduring duplicative tests or
receiving care that isn't coordinated.
CMS announced 121 new
participants nationwide today.
With this announcement ACOs
n'ow represent 49 states and the
District of Columbia.
f ACOs are delivering better care,
and they continue to show promising
results on cost savings.
In 2014, they had a combined
total net program savings of $411
million for 333 Medicare Shared
Savings Program (Shared Savings
Program) ACOs and 20 Pioneer
ACOs.
Based on 2014 quality and
financial performance results for
Shared Savings Program ACOs who
started the program in 2012, 2013,
and 2014, those that reported in
both 2013 and 2014 improved on 27
of the 33 quality measures,
including patients' ratings of
clinicians' communication,
beneficiaries' rating of their doctors,
screening for tobacco use and
cessation, screening for high blood
pressure, and Electronic Health
Record use.
Shared Savings Program ACOs
also outperformed group practices
reporting quality on 18 out of 22
measures. 5
CMS also announced today that
providers and hospitals have signed
up to join new types of ACOs, which
in addition to being paid for positive
patient outcomes will also receive
penalties for negative ones.
With new participants in the
Shared Savings Program (SSP), the
Next Generation ACO Model,
Pioneer ACO Model, and the
Comprehensive ESRD Care Model,
there will now be:
0 Nearly 8.9 million beneficiaries
served.
0 A total of 477 ACOs across SSP,
Pioneer ACO Model, Next
Generation ACO Model, and
Comprehensive ESRD Care Model
0 64 ACOs are in a risk-bearing
track including SSP, Pioneer ACO
Model, Next Generation ACO Model,
and Comprehensive ESRD Care
Model The Next Generation ACO
Model is a new CMS Innovation
Center initiative that builds upon
experience from the Pioneer ACO
Modlel and the Shared Savings
Program.
With 21 participating ACOs, the
new model offers a new opportunity
in‘ accountable care—one that
enables providers and beneficiaries
greater opportunities to coordinate
care and aims to attain the highest
quality standards of care.
Unlike other models, this model
includes a prospectively (rather than
retrospectively) set benchmark,
allows beneficiaries to choose to be
aligned to the ACO, and tests
beneficiary incentives for seeking
care at Next Generation
The Next Generation Model
participants will have the
opportunity to take on higher levels
of financial risk - up to 100 percent
risk - than ACOs in current
initiatives.
While they are at greater
financial risk they also have a
greater opportunity to share in more
of the Model's savings through
better care coordination and care
management.
In addition, the A003 will receive
their budgets prospectively, in
advance of the performance year, to
plan and manage care around these
financial targets from the outset.
The ACOs will also be able to
select from flexible payment options,
such as infrastructure payments
that support ACO investments in
care.
The Medicare Shared Savings
Program welcomed 100 new ACOs
and nearly 150 renewing ACOs on
January 1, 2016.
Since the start of the ACO
program in early 2012, thousands of
health care providers have signed on
to participate.
In 2016, approximately 15,000
more physicians will be
participating in ACOs under the
program.
With the new group of ACOs,
CMS will have ' 434 ACOs
participating in the Shared Savings
Program next year, serving more
than 7.7 million beneficiaries.
ACOs have demonstrated
"increased interest in performance—
based risk arrangements, with 22
ACOs now opting'for either Track 2
or Track 3 participation.
Thirty-nine Shared Savings
Program ACOs will also participate
in the ACO Investment Model
(AIM).
This model, which has a total of
41 participants, will provide pre—
paid shared savings to encourage
new ACOs to form in rural and
underserved areas and to encourage
current Shared Savings Program
A003 to transition to performance-
based risk arrangement.
The up-front payments
distributed through the AIM
support ACOs in improving
infrastructure and redesigning care
processes to provide beneficiaries
with lOwer cost and higher quality
health care.
"Accountable Care Organizations
are improving quality of care and
spending dollars more wisely.
.These new initiatives place
patients at the center of a
coordinated care delivery system
and give providers the tools to
achieve better outcomes," said
Patrick Conway, Deputy
Administrator for Innovation and
Quality and Chief Medical Officer
for CMS.
These initiatives also advance the
Administration's goals, announced
on January 26, 2015, to move 30
percent of traditional Medicare fee-
for-service payments into
alternative payment models that
pay providers based on the quality
rather than the quantity of care they
provide patients by 2016 - and 50
percent by 2018.
The Affordable Care Act provides
tools, such as Medicare ACOs, to
move our health care system toward
one that rewards doctors based on
the quality, not just the quantity, of
care they give patients.
Today's announcement is part of
the Administration's broader
strategy to improve the health care
system by paying providers for what
works, unlocking health care data, "
and finding new ways to coordinate
and integrate care to improve
quality.
More than 4,600 payers,
providers, employers, patients,
states, consumer groups, consumers
and other partners have registered
to participate in the Health Care
'Payment Learning and Action
Network, which was launched to
help the entire health care system
reach these goals.
The Center for Medicare and
Medicaid Innovation (CMS
Innovation Center)
innovation.cms.gov/index.htmi was
created by the Affordable Care Act
to test innovative payment and
service delivery models to reduce
program expenditures while
preserving or enhancing the quality
of care for Medicare, Medicaid and
Children's Health' Insurance
Program (CHIP) beneficiaries.
The CMS Innovation Center is
committed to transforming
Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP to
help deliver better care, and smarter
spending for Medicare, Medicaid
and CHIP beneficiaries, and.
healthier populations.
-_ I Job Shadowing At
Tri—County Veterinary Service
Have you ever done it? I did at
the Tri-County Vet in Peterstown.
I have always wanted to be a vet
because of the love I have for
animals.
But, I didn't know much about it
besides the things that I have read
on the internet and in books.
That's good information but I
wanted to know how things worked
on the job to make sure that this
career is really what I wanted.
I saw really amazing things there
By Holly Kesner
like five surgeries on different types
of animals and one sonogram that
showed nine puppies inside the belly
of a second time mommy to be.
I learned a lot by all the?
questions that I had, for them to
answer.
After that day it made me realize
that this career is exactly what I
want to be for the rest of my life.
If you want a career and want
more information on that type of
career besides the internet and
books, I would highly recommend
you take a chance and spend a day ,
job shadowing your dream career.
The Adult Education program at
the Library helped me with the job
shadowing ’4’ th y can help you.
They are always looking for ways:
to help peo)le achieve their dreams.
For more information about the
adult education program at the
Summers County Public Library,
call 466-4490 or drop by the 3rd floor -'
of the library.
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,._-1HintOn, west Virginia Tuesday Jan. 19, 2016 .
TWWest Virginia ’HOSpitals And Health ,' Summers Ciinty High
USPS - 246- 180
School Players Reach
.1000 Career Points
Summers County 91 Richwood 54
Matt Ryan Scores 1000 Career Points
Matt Ryan scored hileOOth
career point, and he did it in
impressive fashion, finishing the
game with 31 points, eight assists
and four steals in a lopsided win over
Richwood on Jan 7.
Summers County also received 13
points from Dacota Thomas and 15
from Antonio Ford, who also dished
out seven assists. Braxton Adkins
scored 14, and Andrew Richmond
finished the game with 10. Caleb
Clendenin scored 13 to lead
Richwood, Richwood (0-8)
Griffin Snyder 5 0-0 11, Caleb
Clendenin 5 0—0 13, Joe Kidwell 1 l-
1 5, Brandon Amick 3 0-0 6, Bryar
Spencer 3 0-0 6, Dalton Myers 1 0-0
2, Shawn Griffin 1 1-3 4, Justin
Ritchie 01-21, Devin Holcomb 2 2—4
6. Totals: 22 6-11 54.
Summers County (5—5)
Matt Ryan 13 2-3 31, Cordell
Meadows 01—1 1, Braxton Adkins 5
2-515, Antonio Ford 7 0-015,Andrew
Richmond 0—010, Jamison Hamm
1 0-0 2, Dacota Thomas 5 3-513.
Totals: 3810-16 91.
R: 1112247 - 54 SC 30 23 21 17 -
91. 3-point goals: R: 6 (Snyder,
Clendenin 3, Kidwell, Griffin); SC:
4 (Ryan 3, Adkins 3, Ford).
Fouled out: None.
Lady Bobcats Beat Princeton
90-59
Brittney Justice scores 1000 Career Points On Saturday Jan 16 the
Summer 5 County Lady Bobcats defeated AAA Princeton
90-59 to improve to 12-0.
It was a big day for Brittney
Justice who scored 29 points
including the 1000'h point of her
career.
Justice scored her basket on a
pass from her sister Whittney. Just
two weeks earlier they had reversed
roles when Brittney got.the assist
on Whittney's 1000th point.
Brittney also pulled down 10
rebounds in the Princeton win.
Whittney Justice scored 26 points
and passed out six assists.
Hannah Taylor scored 14 points
along with 10 rebounds and six
assists. Adrianna Mitchem led the
9-3 TigereKes with 18 points,
followed by Kaleigh Barkerwith 16.
Princeton (9-3)
Danielle Hall 3 3-5 9, Madison
Parsons 1 0-0 2, Adrianna Mitchem
9 0-1 18, Jaime Vest 0 2-4 2, Britney
Long 3 0-0 6, Kaleigh Barker 3 9-11
16, Autumn Bradley 1 0-2 2, Dee
Dee Eaves 2 0-0 4.
Totals: 22 14-23 59.
Summers County (12—0)
Hannah Taylor 5 4-6 14, Morgan
Miller 3 0-0 6, Tiffany Cline 3 0-0 7,
Brittney Justice 7 15—21 29, Whitney
Justice 7 11-12 26, Jordan Sigman
2 0-1 4, Erica Merrill 1 0-0 2,
Bryanna Bragg 1 0-0 2.
Totals: 29 30—40 90.
P: 14 9 16 20 - 59 SC: 23 13 30 24
- 90 3-point goals: P: 1 (Barker); SC:
2 (C1ine,W. Justice) Players. Fouled
out: P (Vest,Long, Hall Lady Bobcats
Improve to 11-0
CHESTNUT GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH
This week's Summers County Church is from 1912, su
photo by Vicky Maddy.
The following article was taken
from The History of Summers
County West Virginia 1984 on page
104-105.
On August 3, 1912, a meeting was
called at Palmer O'Bryans' barn
located at the top of Sourwood
Mountain for the organization and
building of a church. The church was
built on a lot donated by Mrs. S. A.
O'Bryan.
This church was a white frame
building constructed of lumber from
the surrounding area.
The pews were made of solid
chestnut lumber using every wide
boards cut from the virgin forests of
the region. Much of the lumber used
in the church itself was also
chestnut.
The church was dedicated on
October 4, 1914 by its first pastor,
E. J. "Lige" Garten. Ahuge crowd of
. people attended this dedication
service. Otis Reed is one of the few
surviving people who attended this
dedication service.
His parents Lewis and Lida Reed
came from Judson with six children
in a hack pulled by a span of mules.
"Ote" recalls that many of the
high country people from Tempa,
Judson and Elk Knob attended this
service.
The crowd was so large that less
than half of them could get
inside the church. The service last
most of the day with lots of food
being served.
The people came by wagon,
buggies, hacks, horseback and on
foot. ,
The horses were hitched on the
hill behind the church. He says
while the food was being served a
thunderstorm came up with the
rain falling heavily.
Taking shelter under the church,
under and in wagons, the people fled
wherever they could get out of the
rain.
Due to the time involved to travel
to either Laurel Creek or Hungarts
Creek where the water was deep
enough to baptize, the men dug a
hole and made a small dam to create
a little pool of water to baptize the
people in. This was located on .the
bmitted by Donna Brown Brewster with
R. S. O'Bryan farm.
'Melvin O'Bryan now lives on this
farm and the pool was just above his
house in the old apple orchard.
Due to deteriorating conditions,
the old church was torn down and a
new church
constructed in 1979. More land
was donated to the church by Melvin
O'Bryan in 1982.
The present church is made of red
brick trimmed in white and
tastefully landscaped.
This beautiful church is nestled
in a small cove on the headwaters
of Laurel Creek, just under the crest
of Keeny Mountain. Located on
County Route 7.
It is eight miles from Sandstone
and thirteen miles from Hinton from
the opposite direction.
For the past thirty-six years,
Chestnut Grove has held its annual
"Homecoming" on the third Sunday
of August.
This event is usuallly an all day
affair with lots of good good
preaching, singing and Christian
fellowship.