Connecticut Center for Primary Care

Vision Statement

“The Primary Care Coalition of Connecticut serves as a unified voice for the essential role of primary care in reforming the healthcare system in our state. Our core membership represents the broad spectrum of providers throughout primary care. We advocate with legislators, payers, employers and citizens for a well organized primary care foundation as the best way to achieve universal access, improve quality, and control costs. We promote efforts to transform our current primary care structure into a more effective model, including the principle of a medical home for all people. In support of our common platform, we seek the endorsement and collaboration of all stakeholders in the health care system in our state.”

Primary Care Coalition of Connecticut

Community Health Center Association of Connecticut

Community Health Center, Inc.

Connecticut Academy of Family Physicians

Connecticut Academy of Physician Assistants

Connecticut Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Society

Connecticut Area Health Education Center

Connecticut Center for Primary Care

Connecticut Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Connecticut Chapter of the American College of Physicians

Connecticut Public Health Association

HealthWise Medical Associates

Middlesex Department of Family Practice

ProHealth Physicians

University of Connecticut / St. Francis Family Medicine Residency Program

VA Connecticut Healthcare System

We welcome the opportunity to serve as a resource to your office as you consider healthcare reform options for Connecticut.

The Primary Care Coalition of Connecticut is a group of health care professionals from across Connecticut who have united to help build and promote a more effective system of primary health care for our state. We believe that primary care must play a central role in a redesigned health care system that meets the needs of the people of Connecticut. We come from diverse backgrounds, including physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, public health workers, community health centers, government health programs, and private medical practices.

Today, health care reform challenges us at the state and national level. As we debate the outline and next steps in this reform effort, we believe that these central principles are critical to success:

Everyone should have access to affordable, high quality health care.
Primary care must play a central role in an effective and affordable health care system.
Access to primary health care is essential in building a system that not only treats disease, but prevents illness and enhances our quality of life.
Primary care can significantly reduce the cost of care through prevention, early detection, optimal intervention, and efficient coordination of care.
Every person should have a primary care clinician to provide basic, coordinated care, as in the patient-centered medical home.

Our current health care system is expensive, fragmented, and lacks universal access, while producing inconsistent outcomes. Much work will be needed from all stakeholders to move to a better system that includes everyone. Changes in workforce policy, financial incentives, and investment priorities will be essential to achieving this goal. To support this process of change, The Primary Care Coalition of Connecticut serves as an advocate to the public, as a resource to policy makers in the legislature and payer community, as a clearing house for ideas, and as a focal point for activity to improve our existing primary care base. The members of the Coalition are committed to this purpose and seek others to join us in our effort and collaborate to improve the health of the people of our state.

For further information please contact: Susan Huntington at ProHealth Physicians at (860) 284-5206