Transforming Healthcare in the US Virgin

Islands…..

Primary Healthcare

Determinants of Health

Access to Quality Healthcare

Results from the 2009 Virgin Islands Health Insurance Survey

Healthcare in the U.S. Today

What do the statistics tell us?

Health Care Reform

Why are changes in the healthcare delivery system critical for reform?

Raising Healthcare Cost

Challenges with Access to Quality Care

The US health system is focused on specialty services and procedures that take precedence over preventative care

Lack of coordination between systems and providers.

USVI Primary Healthcare: Vision

USVI Primary Health Care

President Obama and Healthcare Reform

“Health care reform is no longer just a moral imperative, it’s a fiscal imperative. If we want to create jobs and rebuild our economy and get our federal budget under control, then we have to address the crushing cost of health care this year, in this administration.”

~ President Obama, White HouseForum on Health Care Reform