General Information

The mission of DHCN for its physician members, in collaboration with their hospital partners, is to improve the health of the community through the efficiency and effectiveness of the care they deliver, monitoring outcomes across the healthcare continuum and focusing on improvement of processes and appropriate utilization to ensure quality.

This network is a physician-driven, physician-led, and physician-managed effort to develop and maintain active and ongoing clinical initiatives designed to control costs and improve the quality of inpatient and outpatient care. The clinically integrated network of physicians will work collaboratively, share data and hold each other accountable for performance against physician developed and agreed upon clinical performance and efficiency standards.

Through innovative care coordination programs, exceptional care continues after the patient leaves the doctor’s office. Care teams are essential to helping both physician and patient navigate the most complex of health challenges. Teams of health professionals work closely with patients to assist with doctor’s orders, medications and communication with their physician’s office.

DHCN securely shares patient information among its provider participants as allowed under the law as an organized health care arrangement.