MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation
Named for a Group Health founder and pioneering physician, W.A. MacColl, MD, the MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation at Group Health Center for Health Studies (CHS) was created in 1992. Ed Wagner, MD, MPH, a senior investigator and founding director of CHS, is the Institute's founder and director.
"We develop tools and expertise to advance Group Health's commitment to 'population-based' or 'planned' care," said Wagner. "This helps the system deliver services that can meet predictable health care needs among groups of patients with common chronic illnesses, using interventions strongly grounded in clinical evidence."
In the mid-1990s the Institute developed the Chronic Care Model, a widely endorsed and adopted approach to improving ambulatory care that has guided clinical quality initiatives in the United States and internationally.
The Institute is the home of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Improving Chronic Illness Care (ICIC). Since 1998, ICIC has been involved in further developing, testing, and disseminating Chronic Care Model-based clinical improvement efforts.
CHS provides core funding for the Institute. Learn more about the ICIC program.