Health Care: Reversing Cost and Quality in America's Poorest City: Dr. Jeffrey Brenner at TEDxPhilly
2013 MacArthur Fellow Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, MD is a family physician working to bend the health care cost curve the right way through patient engagement. Recognizing the need for a new way for hospitals, providers and community residents to collaborate on health, Dr. Brenner founded the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, working to build an integrated health delivery model to provide better care for Camden, New Jersey residents. As the Coalition's Executive Director, Dr. Brenner spends much of his time meeting with stakeholders and policymakers, advocating for the models of care the Coalition has developed and demonstrated through data centric results. His goal is to ensure that families who live in urban, underserved communities receive high-quality, culturally competent, personalized family health care. Fixing health care is not a technical problem -- it is a moral, ethical and political problem. Go out and meet the most expensive people in the city and build health care around extreme patients, while lowering costs at the same time.
The 2011 TEDxPhilly conference examined vast interpretations of the theme The City on Tuesday, November 8. TEDxPhilly brought together engaging speakers, performers, participants and exhibitors to deconstruct, decipher and explore some of the greatest challenges, innovations, concepts and realities that shape and are shaped by cities and their inhabitants. Philadelphia was the point of departure, but the conversation traveled beyond its borders. The event took place at Temple Performing Arts Center in North Philadelphia.
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Dr. Jeffrey Brenner and Hot Spotting: Innovative Approaches to Caring for the Very Ill
Dr. Jeffrey Brenner delivers the keynote address at An NJ Spotlight's Conference: Accountable Care Organizations & Healthcare Delivery System Reform, held February 28, 2014 at the Robert Wood Johnson Fitness and Wellness Center in Mercerville, N.J.
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On Jeffrey Brenner:
For 15 years, Jeffrey Brenner owned and operated a solo-practice, urban family medicine office in Camden, N.J., providing full-spectrum family health services to a largely Hispanic Medicaid population. He delivered babies, cared for children and adults and conducted home visits. Recognizing the need for a new way for hospitals, providers, and community residents to collaborate, in 2003 he founded and has served as the Executive Director of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers. Through the Camden Coalition, local stakeholders are working to build an integrated, health delivery model to provide better care for Camden City residents.
Brenner's work was profiled by the writer and surgeon Dr. Atul Gawande in The New Yorker and featured in an episode of PBS Frontline. In 2013 he received a MacArthur genius award. According to the MacArthur Foundation, Brenner has demonstrated that using this model of cooperative care — identifying and visiting high-risk patients, earning their trust, offering access to clinical services, heading off medical complications before they occur, addressing social needs before they become medical problems — can reduce repeated emergency room visits and hospitalizations and lower healthcare costs.
Brenner is also the medical director of the Urban Health Institute, a dedicated business unit at Cooper Health System focused on improving care of the underserved. Using modern business techniques they are redesigning long-standing clinical care models to deliver better care at lower cost.