About four years ago, Nick Macchione, who oversees San Diego County’s public health system, had an idea to expand the accountable care organization concept in a way that would involve a much broader range of stakeholders working together to improve the health of an entire region.

During a meeting that focused largely on the role of healthcare providers in reducing hospital admissions, Macchione says he remembers thinking that the ACO approach alone will do little to fix fragmented healthcare. “I said we can do better than ACOs,” Macchione recalls. “We’ve got to do an accountable care community.”

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