Cooperatives
EvidenceNOW established seven regional cooperatives composed of public and private health partnerships and multidisciplinary teams of experts in 12 States. Bringing together the skills, experiences, and resources of academic researchers, local organizations, and consumer groups, the cooperatives designed interventions to expand primary care practices’ capacity to use evidence to improve the care they provide, including heart health care.
Each cooperative successfully recruited and engaged 200-250 small- and medium-sized primary care practices and provided quality improvement support services usually not available to the practices because of their size. The services included onsite practice facilitation and coaching, expert consultation, shared learning collaboratives, electronic health record support, and data feedback and benchmarking.
Since 2016, EvidenceNOW has reached over 5,000 primary care professionals delivering health care to approximately 8 million people in a range of metropolitan and rural settings.
Learn more about the cooperatives below.
- Midwest Cooperative
Principal Investigator: Abel Kho, M.D.
Serving: Tri-State Chicago area of Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana
Profile: Information about the Midwest cooperative (PDF, 1 MB)
. - New York City Cooperative
Principal Investigator: Donna Shelley, M.D.
Serving: New York City
Profile: Information about the NYC cooperative (PDF, 1 MB)
. - North Carolina Cooperative
Principal Investigator: Samuel Cykert, M.D.
Serving: North Carolina
Profile: Information about the North Carolina cooperative (PDF, 1 MB)
. - Northwest Cooperative
Principal Investigator: Michael Parchman, M.D.
Serving: Washington, Oregon, and Idaho
Profile: Information about the Northwest cooperative (PDF, 1 MB)
. - Oklahoma Cooperative
Principal Investigator: Daniel Duffy, M.D.
Serving: Oklahoma
Profile: Information about the Oklahoma cooperative (PDF, 1.1 MB)
. - Southwest Cooperative
Principal Investigator: W. Perry Dickinson, M.D.
Serving: Colorado and New Mexico
Profile: Information about the Southwest cooperative (PDF, 5.3 MB)
. - Virginia Cooperative
Principal Investigator: Anton Kuzel, M.D.
Serving: Virginia
Profile: Information about the Virginia cooperative (PDF, 1 MB)
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