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ApolloMed and Wider Circle Enter Strategic Partnership to Elevate the Delivery of Patient-Centered Care for High-Need Community Members
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Wider Circle, a peer-based community health organization working with payers and providers to connect neighbors for
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[{"type":"text","content":" REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nWider Circle, a peer-based community health organization working with payers and providers to connect neighbors for better health, today announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc. (\"ApolloMed\") (NASDAQ: AMEH), a technology-powered healthcare company empowering providers to deliver high-quality, value-based care to all in their community, to deliver Enhanced Care Management (ECM) to high-need Medicaid members across the state of California.\n\n\nUnder the joint venture relationship, the two organizations will provide comprehensive patient-centered care and Enhanced Care Management for Medicaid members with complex needs, an integral component of the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) initiative. This program will leverage Wider Circle’s unique group-based engagement model and ApolloMed’s well-established comprehensive care management offering to elevate how social programs and clinical services are delivered – together – in the communities they collectively serve.\n\n\n“An interdisciplinary and coordinated approach to patient-centered care is critical in delivering whole person-centered care to members, especially for those with the most complex medical and social needs,” said Brandon Sim, Co-CEO of ApolloMed. “By pairing Wider Circle’s impressive community-based engagement model and ApolloMed’s core clinical offerings and proprietary care management platform and technology suite, we will strive to bring community-based, interdisciplinary, and person-centered care to all who need it.”\n\n\nWider Circle is committed to solving the last mile of healthcare by building neighborhood groups that empower members to motivate and support each other to get the care they need, when they need it, where they need it. This is accomplished by using the company’s analytics capabilities to identify members who are eligible for the program and building trusted neighborhood groups, leveraging its multi-modal outreach techniques to engage these populations where they are in the community.\n\n\nApolloMed is focused on coordinating care for community members and empowering care providers with the technology and infrastructure they need to effectively deliver high-quality care to all. ApolloMed continues to pair its significant experience w...