Partner Benefits – Wellstar Clinical Partners

Do more of what you love with everything you need

Share the success in your neighborhood

Our partners are passionate about the health and well-being of the communities they serve. That’s why we have great success in recruiting and retaining world-class physicians who desire to transform the health of hundreds of thousands of lives in Georgia.

Referral Network

Giving patients a world-class team

Transforming community health as part of one of the largest referral networks in Georgia opens access to a full continuum of care for a patient’s every need and promotes opportunities for practice growth, opportunities and reward.

Clinical Innovation

Building a legacy of community health

If future success is indicative of past performance, Wellstar Clinical Partners is on the fast track for health transformation in the communities we serve. With increased capabilities for developing best practices on a community level through leadership, engagement and participation in WCP’s quality-driven programs, our partners are vital to advancing healthcare and creating healthier communities.

Accountable Care Organization

Nationally ranked in the top five percent by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for outcomes, preventive focus, and cost savings

Hospital Quality and Efficiency Program

Value-Based Contracts

Expanding the number of contracts in order to transform the health of more community members

Medicare Bundled Payments for Care Improvement

Advancing patient outcomes with COPD and sepsis

Physician Quality Dashboard

Enabling partners to track and report individual and network performance on over 19 quality metrics to close care gaps

Tools & Resources

Closing care gaps and eliminating redundancies

Wellstar Clinical Partners equips you with quality-driven tools and resources. Our Quality Team will provide performance scorecards and patient risk identification—critical to improving the value equation.

Data Analytic Tools

Accurately track and report performance on individual and network levels with ease

On-site Training

Quality and care management coordinators assigned to each partner's practice

HQEP Quality Dashboard

Access to real-time monitoring on patient care and quality improvement progress

Epic Link

Patient data and information sharing for community-based affiliated pratices

Education Bundles

Resources that maximize metric improvements in inpatient and outpatient settings

Care Coordination

Leveraging experts to enhance care quality

We invest people resources in your practice for education, training, coding assistance, and elbow-to-elbow support to close care gaps and ensure continuity of care and gains in quality improvement.

Population Health case managers assist high-risk patients and those transitioning from hospital to home, or a community-based post-acute setting, by providing disease-specific education, coaching on self-management skills and offering support to under-resourced patients negatively affected by social determinants of health.

Network Expertise

Mayo Clinic Care Network Expertise

Wellstar Health System is the only health system in Metro Atlanta to be selected as a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network. As part of the Wellstar Clinical Partners network, complimentary consultations are available with a Mayo physician for additional opinions on complex cases, at no cost to the patient.

Partners also have round-the-clock access to Mayo Clinic-vetted medical information and guidelines through AskMayoExpert, a web-based provider resource. Mayo Clinic shares a common philosophy with Wellstar – an unwavering commitment and mission to improve healthcare delivery. Working together, we hope to ensure the best care and treatment plans for even the most complicated diagnoses.

Advocacy & Support

A widely accredited health system

Wellstar Clinical Partners is a fully owned subsidiary of Georgia’s largest health system, Wellstar Health System, known nationally for its innovative care models focused on improving quality and access to healthcare

Serving a diverse population in Georgia, Wellstar consistently looks at total patient wellness and works to ensure that all systems support that focus. Wellstar is recognized nationally as an Employer of Choice and is featured on FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For^® list and Work Mother Magazine’s Best Companies list. Specialists and primary care providers work in a multi-disciplinary environment with 20,000 team members throughout 11 hospitals, 225 medical office locations, outpatient centers, health parks, a pediatric center, nursing centers, hospice, and homecare.

Wellstar’s Senior Leadership, Board of Trustees, Authority, Regional and Foundation Boards evaluate emerging health needs to equip our facilities with the best new technology. We know that healthy patients come from healthy neighborhoods, and finding ways to deliver better care in Georgia is a big part of who we are. As a not-for-profit health system, WellStar continually reinvests into the health of its communities through new treatments, services and facilities.

Contract Negotiation

Proving our total cost of care with quality

We negotiate contracts with parity to both community-based affiliated and employed physicians by presenting evidence of the value we deliver across the full expanse of our clinically integrated network.

These accomplishments in managing healthcare utilization reflect our mission to transform the health of the communities we serve with an unwavering commitment to meeting Quadruple Aim goals.

Shared Savings

Delivering best practices

The track record of the Wellstar ACO against national benchmarks is stellar garnering national recognition for the coordinated high quality care delivered to its 50,000 Medicare patients. The goal of coordinated care is ensuring chronically ill patients get the right care at the right time and preventing unnecessary duplication of services and medical errors.

When an ACO exceeds quality and financial thresholds—demonstrating achievement of high quality care and wiser spending of healthcare dollars—it’s able to share in the savings generated for the Medicare Shared Savings Program. Wellstar ACO is one of few that have consistently earned shared savings for four out of five years.

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