Health Reform Policy to Practice: Oregon’s Path to a Sustainable Health System: A Study in Innovation

Goldberg served two Oregon Governors as the Director of the Oregon Office for Health Policy and Research, the Director of the Oregon Department of Human Services from November 2005 through February 2011, and then led the formation of the Oregon Health Authority from February 2011 through 2013. Goldberg's experiences span time as an administrator of large complex organizations, a practicing clinician, teacher/academician, a county health officer, medical director for a Medicaid managed care organization, and Director of Community Health Services for the US Public Health Services in Zuni, New Mexico. Sto

In addition, he led efforts to establish Oregon’s Healthy Kids program providing health coverage for all children, improve Oregon’s mental health system and transform the delivery of public human services to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.Dr. He has been a faculty member at Oregon Health and Science University for more than 15 years. Before joining Oregon Health & Science University in 2012 as an Associate Professor of Family Medicine, he served as Executive Medical Direc

This is not only an Oregon story, but a national one as other states, payers and purchasers implement health care reform.Written by content experts who have been actively involved in health care reform effortsProvides clear translation of current information and experience to implementationExplores the potential impact of the Oregon experience on national and international health care reform efforts. Traditionally, health care reform looked at cutting people from care, cutting provider rates or cutting services. Over more than two decades, Oregonians have participated in a dialogue to create a new approach to solve the dilemma of providing high quality health care that is affordable and effective. Oregon’s approach is unique in that it built a new system of delivery from the ground (community) up. Health Reform Policy to Practice: Oregon as a Case Study for a Path to a Comprehensive and Sustainable Health Delivery Model offers a real world example of an innovative, successful and comprehensive program conducted by the U.S. State of Oregon. In 1991, Oregon embarked on a journey to improve health for all its citizens by radically re-thinking how to approach health care for long-term benefits. The Oregon model took a “Fourth Path to health care by redesigning the clinical delivery system through reducing waste, improving individual health and prevention, and therefore reducing utilizati