Welcome

The Coalition of Leaders for Louisiana Healthcare (COLLAH) was organized by health care stakeholders both statewide and in the New Orleans region to continue the discussion of designing and implementing a modernized health care delivery and financing system based on evidenced-based patient need, the Guiding Principles and the Concept Paper of the Louisiana Health Care Redesign Collaborative.

Goals

The Coalition’s immediate goal is to develop an implementation plan for a modernized health care delivery system in the New Orleans region based on the Collaborative’s Medical Home Model, which improves access to care, increases patient choice for the uninsured and systematically provides patient-based reimbursement for all qualified providers of care. The Coalition will design an appropriate system of referrals for diagnostic services, access to specialty care and hospital services, as well as clarify the mechanics of providing health care coverage and suggest benefit packages and services.

The long term goal of the Coalition is to expand the best practices from the plan for the New Orleans region statewide and serve as a health system redesign example for the rest of the nation. This is a logical next step toward implementation of valid concepts contained in the work of the Louisiana Health Care Redesign Collaborative’s concept paper, the blueprint for healthcare system reform in Louisiana.