The IBC Foundation: Investing in Innovation for a Healthier Community
Abstract
Today, our nation and our region are facing a historically challenging health care environment, a still volatile economy, the uncertainties of pending health care reform, continually rising health care costs, and the aging of a huge generation of baby boomers. Against this complicated backdrop, two real and complex problems will impact the future of health care for all of us: the challenge of caring for the uninsured and underinsured and the shortage of nurses and other health care professionals trained to care for the elderly.
How can we bring about meaningful, lasting change in our region’s health care system to address these two issues and improve the quality, effectiveness, and affordability of health care for generations to come? The Independence Blue Cross Foundation, a newly formed $10 million private charitable organization dedicated to transforming the delivery of health care, is looking closely at these two pressing issues, and at new approaches to address them.
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