BWH, BWPO Receive Nesson Award for 'Plan and Promise'

From left, Allen Kachalia, MD, JD Joanne Hogan, RN, MS, and Allen Smith, MD, MS are joined by Ted Nesson, son of PCHI founder H. Richard Nesson, MD, at PCHI’s annual meeting.

Partners Community HealthCare, Inc. (PCHI) awarded BWH and the Brigham and Women’s Physician Organization with a Nesson Award for Excellence in recognition of the “Plan and Promise” program. The program aims to reduce prevent-able hospitalizations for patients with chronic disease by emphasizing individualized patient education and improving patients’ access to timely care. The program helps patients self-manage their care by recognizing exacerbations of their chronic disease early and emphasizing the importance of calling their physicians in a timely manner. The program also links to BWH and health plan disease management programs where most appropriate for patients.

The Nesson Awards are named for H. Richard Nesson, MD, PCHI’s founder and the former president of Partners HealthCare and BWH. The awards are bestowed annually to PCHI physicians and groups who exemplify his commitment to improving care.

“PCHI was founded with a commitment to improve both the quality and efficiency of patient care,” PCHI CEO Thomas Lee, MD, said. “The leadership at both Brigham and Women’s Hospital and its Physician Organization, through programs like this one to reduce preventable admissions, is helping to make that vision a reality.”