Monument Health experienced a big year, and we loved celebrating our partnerships at a recent networking reception.

We’re nothing without our partners. Our entire business model is predicated around convening different stakeholders to work toward the common goals of better health care affordability, outcomes and quality. The phenomenal showing of people who came to the event validated the work we’re doing to build strong partnerships.

As we close out 2022, we’re gearing up for a truly impactful 2023.

We now support all populations in the community — commercial, Medicare and Medicaid — and adapt our programs and approaches to the unique needs of each. Our growth is no accident. Our team works toward a goal of achieving true population health by helping all types of patients on the Western Slope. I’m proud of the fact we’re more than well on our way.

Our employer relationships have grown this year — most notably with our renewed and deepened partnership with Mesa County School District 51. We’re honored by the trust the school district has placed in our team and look forward to supporting the district over the next several years. We’re also grateful for our long-term employer partners like Family Health West, Hilltop Community Resources, St. Mary’s Medical Center and West Star Aviation. Hilltop was one of the first employer groups to say yes to Monument Health, and we’re proud of the work we continue to do to support the health and wellness of Hilltop employees.

We also added a wellness platform this year, which enabled us to expand our scope into wellbeing initiatives with our employer partners. We established some new relationships, too, including one with the Roaring Fork Transit Authority.

We welcomed a number of new health care providers to the network and are at almost 100 percent network adequacy for Mesa and Delta counties, which is no small feat. We rolled out a new provider scorecard for primary care and are powering that via more than 2.6 million claims we receive every month plus robust medical records from our partner Quality Health Network. We’re working on designing some pretty sophisticated approaches to our clinical programs and are excited about that.

For the year ahead, we’ll begin wrapping our arms around multiple government programs. We’ll launch a Medicare shared savings program in collaboration with other Intermountain-backed networks in Denver and Montana. This will enable us to take a multi-state, regional approach to better serving Medicare patients.

We’re also gearing up to begin support of Medicaid and Children’s Health Plan plus in Western Colorado in partnership with Rocky Mountain Health Plans. This is an exciting and meaningful opportunity we have in front of us to serve this population.

The work Monument Health has done in the past year would not be possible without an awesome team — including clinicians, providers, hospitals and insurance companies — that continues to lead the charge and think outside the box about ways to improve health care on the Western Slope. Here’s to meaningful partnerships and an impactful 2023.