Vision Source announced that its South Florida area members are joining with Baptist Health Quality Network (BHQN), a physician-led network of healthcare providers working together to improve the health of patients within the greater South Florida metropolitan areas including Broward, Monroe and Miami-Dade Counties. Baptist Health Quality Network patients will have access to the clinicians in the Vision Source network of optometric practices in the aforementioned areas.
“On behalf of the Vision Source clinicians, we truly appreciate our new relationship with Baptist Health Quality Network and we are excited and prepared to provide an enhanced healthcare experience serving the highest level of vision and eyecare services,” says Vision Source President and CEO Jim Greenwood. “This innovative relationship will allow us to provide management and treatment to those living with eye diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma in a collaborative manner with the physicians who comprise BHQN’s clinically integrated network. Vision Source is extremely pleased to become a component of BHQN’s solution for population health management.”
With more than 600 of the region’s top physicians, Baptist Health Quality Network works in collaboration with Baptist Health South Florida to develop a comprehensive, patient-centered network of healthcare providers dedicated to improving the quality and value of healthcare in South Florida.
“In this era of healthcare reform, quality and cost effectiveness are driving factors, and healthcare providers must better understand how to improve the health of targeted patient populations by shifting from a volume-based to a value-based reimbursement,” says Jonathan Fialkow, MD, FACC, executive medical director for BHQN. “The Network was created to engage physicians in this important transformation of care, and we are confident this relationship with Vision Source will allow our patients to receive better access to exceptional vision and eyecare services.”
