Western Plains, Poudre Valley create systems of seamless care

A popular slogan bantered about at health-care conferences these days is, “If you’ve seen one integrated system, you’ve seen one integrated system.”

Integrated health-care delivery is purported by many to be the next wave in the industry. Seamless systems of physicians groups, hospitals, ancillary-care services and management organizations that contract as a unit with insurance companies or directly with employers or groups of employers to provide a continuum of quality care are in various stages of development all over the country.

In Northern Colorado, we have Western Plains Health Network, generally considered to be a fully integrated system, which extends services throughout…