Our Work
GCCN strives to be innovative and resourceful as we productively help clinics reach Georgia’s most vulnerable, while becoming effective and efficient providers of equitable, quality health care.
Clinics must continue to increase capacity to respond to system changes and transformation of the wider health care delivery system in Georgia.
Charitable Clinics provide high-quality care that emphasizes prevention.
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The most common diagnosis is hypertension, followed by diabetes and COPD. Patients with an initial diagnosis of hypertension or prehypertension experienced average reductions of 10.27 mmHg and 6.32 mmHg in systolic and diastolic blood pressure, respectively, during their follow-up visits. These changes were associated with 32.0 percent and 44.3 percent reductions in the relative risk of CHD and stroke, respectively.
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The savings from reduction in blood pressure and avoided emergency department visits for 1661 hypertensive patients produced a positive net benefits of more than $400,000 and a benefit-cost ratio of 1.6, in 2013 US$.
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For every dollar invested in GCCN clinics for hypertension screening and management, there is a benefit to the healthcare system through reduced costs of $1.60. GCCN clinics are a cost-saving delivery model for un-derserved communities with poor health status and high emergency department usage.
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Patients
GCCN provides patients with the resources that they need to find and access the quality, compassionate healthcare that they need and deserve within their own communities.
Providers
GCCN provides our network of free and charitable clinics with the resources needed to expand their scope of care to the patients who deserve quality, compassionate healthcare.
