Cooperatives

EvidenceNOW established seven regional cooperatives composed of public and private health partnerships and multidisciplinary teams of experts in 12 States. Bringing together the skills, experiences, and resources of academic researchers, local organizations, and consumer groups, the cooperatives designed interventions to expand primary care practices’ capacity to use evidence to improve the care they provide, including heart health care.

Each cooperative successfully recruited and engaged 200-250 small- and medium-sized primary care practices and provided quality improvement support services usually not available to the practices because of their size. The services included onsite practice facilitation and coaching, expert consultation, shared learning collaboratives, electronic health record support, and data feedback and benchmarking.

Since 2016, EvidenceNOW has reached over 5,000 primary care professionals delivering health care to approximately 8 million people in a range of metropolitan and rural settings.

Learn more about the cooperatives below.

• Midwest Cooperative
  Principal Investigator: Abel Kho, M.D.
  Serving: Tri-State Chicago area of Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana
  Profile: Information about the Midwest cooperative (PDF, 1 MB)
  Learn about the Midwest cooperative's organizational structure on the ESCALATES Web site.
• New York City Cooperative
  Principal Investigator: Donna Shelley, M.D.
  Serving: New York City
  Profile: Information about the NYC cooperative (PDF, 1 MB)
  Learn about the New York City cooperative's organizational structure on the ESCALATES Web site.
• North Carolina Cooperative
  Principal Investigator: Samuel Cykert, M.D.
  Serving: North Carolina
  Profile: Information about the North Carolina cooperative (PDF, 1 MB)
  Learn about the North Carolina cooperative's organizational structure on the ESCALATES Web site.
• Northwest Cooperative
  Principal Investigator: Michael Parchman, M.D.
  Serving: Washington, Oregon, and Idaho
  Profile: Information about the Northwest cooperative (PDF, 1 MB)
  Learn about the Northwest cooperative's organizational structure on the ESCALATES Web site.
• Oklahoma Cooperative
  Principal Investigator: Daniel Duffy, M.D.
  Serving: Oklahoma
  Profile: Information about the Oklahoma cooperative (PDF, 1.1 MB)
  Learn about the Oklahoma cooperative's organizational structure on the ESCALATES Web site.
• Southwest Cooperative
  Principal Investigator: W. Perry Dickinson, M.D.
  Serving: Colorado and New Mexico
  Profile: Information about the Southwest cooperative (PDF, 5.3 MB)
  Learn about the Southwest cooperative's organizational structure on the ESCALATES Web site.
• Virginia Cooperative
  Principal Investigator: Anton Kuzel, M.D.
  Serving: Virginia
  Profile: Information about the Virginia cooperative (PDF, 1 MB)
  Learn about the Virginia cooperative's organizational structure on the ESCALATES Web site.