We are Creating Change

It starts with talking with each other; to share the good parts of what is working in our current healthcare system and then developing a plan to implement the best health care practices.

Below are some of the areas where we are creating change.

Millennium has engaged healthcare partner organizations, community-based organizations, and voice of customer groups representing Western New York’s eight counties.
On track to distribute: $15-20 M – Master Participation Agreements (Contracts to Safety Net Providers)
Over 140 Leadership staff, 800 Direct Care Staff, and 400 RNs and LPNs have been trained in the core INTERACT principles and care.
The Emergency Department Care Triage (EDCT) project is being implemented at Olean General Hospital, the Erie County Medical Center, Kaleida Health hospitals, Eastern Niagara Hospital, and other facilities across Western New York. Each site has patient navigators dedicated to the project’s goals of reducing avoidable Emergency Department utilization by 25 percent over the next four years.
Since November of 2015, we have enrolled more than 500 mothers or expectant mothers into the Community Health Worker Home Visiting Program.
Since August 2015, over 15,000 recipients have participated in the Millennium Patient Activation Measure® (PAM®) process to identify the motivations of recipients (uninsured, non and under-utilizing populations) to seek healthcare.

Millennium is delivering national best practice programs such as the Million Hearts® cardiovascular disease project in partnership with the University at Buffalo School of Nursing, the Greater Buffalo United Church Ministries, and Kenneth Lee Gayles, M.D., Cardiologist, Gayles Medical; Project Champion, Cardiovascular Disease/Million Hearts®.
Helping practices across Western New York attain Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) 2014 Level 3. National Committee Quality Assurance (NCQA) Recognition – the Gold Standard for practice transformation.
Supporting the mission of HEALTHeLINK to create and maintain a secure and reliable infrastructure for the timely and accurate electronic exchange of clinical information among health care providers and others involved in the delivery of health care services in Western New York and who are connected via the State Health Information Network of New York (SHIN-NY).
By advancing Behavioral Health Integration: Primary care settings have become a gateway for many individuals with behavioral health and primary care needs. Our team is assisting practices with Integration of mental health and substance abuse within the primary care practices, and assisting practices with referral agreements with key behavioral health specialists along with implementation of Universal Screening and Intervention tools.

Updates Value Based Payment Value Based Payments
Millennium Implementing Initiative to Drive Innovation
Continuing to Accept Applications By Steve Nelson, Director VBP & Performance As health care providers speed down the bumpy Value-Based […]
Community Engagement Press Updates We Are Creating Change
Millennium Launches Value-Based GetSET Readiness Program
LuAnne Brown, CEO, Buffalo Prenatal-Perinatal Network and Tim Boling, Executive Director, Compeer participate in a panel discussion. After months of […]
Press Updates We Are Creating Change
Buffalo Healthy Living April 2019: Rita Hubbard-Robinson is Truly a Healthy Hero
https://buffalohealthyliving.com/april-2019-buffalo-healthy-living/
Updates Value Based Payment Value Based Payments
VBP Strategy Leaders Headline MCC/CPWNY Webinar Series
Millennium Collaborative Care and fellow Performing Provider System Community Partners of Western New York are pleased to present a series […]
Community Engagement Press Updates We Are Creating Change
The Value of a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet
Photo: WNY INNOVATOR: Dr. Frances Ilozue demonstrating in the Rapha Family Medicine “teaching kitchen” with Millennium’s Michele Mercer. Buffalo Healthy […]
Community Engagement Press Updates We Are Creating Change
Eat Plants For Health
Buffalo Healthy Living Special Issue BHL_MILLENNIUMCOLLABSPECIALISSUE – 2019
Updates We Are Creating Change
MCC Spotlights Evergreen, GBUAHN, Rapha Program Outcomes at NYS Learning Symposium
“Planting New SDOH Seeds; Growing Healthy Communities” was the title of Millennium Collaborative Care’s exhibit at the 2019 NYS Learning […]
Acute Care Updates
Population Health Services Update: Enhanced Patient Services Moving Forward, Working with Patients and Providers
By Peter Ciotta, Communications Director Millennium’s Enhanced Patient Services initiative has started working with patients and Primary Care Providers. […]
Community Engagement Press Updates We Are Creating Change
‘Reimagining: Health ∙ Education ∙ Social Justice’ … Community Forum on the Health Impacts of Exploitive Ticketing and Avoidable School Suspensions on African Americans Living in Buffalo
Community Forum on the Health Impacts of Exploitive Ticketing and Avoidable School Suspensions on African Americans Living in Buffalo • […]
Press Updates We Are Creating Change
NYS ‘DSRIP Stories of Meaningful Change in Patient Health’ Features Millennium Initiatives
Please click on above Cover to view publication. The New York State Department of Health has released a compendium of […]

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We appreciate all whom are helping to ignite healthcare change in Western New York. We are excited for the opportunity to partner with our community to impact healthcare for all generations.

Al Hammonds, CSSBB
Executive Director
Millennium Collaborative Care

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