Hall of Fame

As an experienced, comprehensive service provider, Managed Health Services, a Centene Corporation Medicaid health plan, understands the need to customize asthma solutions for diverse populations.

Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics — serving families in Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri — uses a creative approach for managing pediatric asthma.

The staff at Optima Health Plan — the managed care division of Sentara Health Care that operates in southeastern Virginia — noticed a disturbing trend: despite pharmacological advances in asthma therapy, the number of emergency room visits, hospitalization rates, and medical costs for asthma pati

Improving Pediatric Asthma Care in the District of Columbia (IMPACT DC) Asthma Clinic targets inner-city, minority and disadvantaged children who suffer disproportionate asthma morbidity and mortality.

Blue Cross of California, State Sponsored Business Unit (SSB), has designed a Comprehensive Asthma Intervention Program (CAIP) to improve care for California Medi-Cal and Healthy Families members with asthma.

MaineHealth's service area covers 90,675 patients with asthma, including 27,156 children in southern, central, and western Maine. The AH! (Asthma Health) Program combines standards-based clinical care with robust indoor and outdoor environmental asthma management.

Priority Health is a non-profit health plan that serves more than 19,000 people with asthma in 43 Michigan counties. In the late 1990s, Priority Health recognized the need for home-based asthma care that includes environmental trigger management.

The University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) is a non-profit health care provider serving 12,214 adults and children with asthma in Southeastern Michigan.

The Asthma Network of West Michigan (ANWM) is a community coalition that provides comprehensive home-based case management to 82,933 children and adults with asthma in West Michigan. ANWM has demonstrated impressive results including improved health outcomes and cost savings.

The Monroe Plan for Medical Care is a managed care organization, located in the Rochester, New York area. The Monroe Plan covers 5,633 children with asthma in Monroe County and 12 neighboring rural counties.