So happy to celebrate the contributions of Barbra Rabson in advancing primary care with Andrew Bazemore (American Board of Family Medicine) at the Barbara Starfield Award Banquet at the Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) Conference. Barbra and her team in Massachusetts are the bomb!

A Virginia reunion in Minneapolis— this week, #VCHI Chief Strategy Officer Lauryn Walker travelled to the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting #ARM2025 and met up with Ellen Montz, Managing Director at manatt, and Andrew Barnes, faculty at VCU.

Congratulations #VCHI BoD Secretary Aneesh Chopra, MPP (Arcadia.io) and #VCHI Leadership Council members Gerard Filicko, CMPE (Virginia Care Partners) and Lacy Heiberger, RN (UVA Health) for being named in the 2025 Top 50 Value-Based Care Thinkers by Pearl Health

Check out this Health Affairs article by Chris Koller, Milbank Memorial Fund, to see how cost growth targets can provide policy-relevant data on cost drivers. healthaffairs.org/content/forefr…

Interested in support to improve clinician well-being and retention? Check out vahealthinnovation.org/virginia-joy-i… and email Beth Bortz [email protected] for more information! Virginia Joy in Healthcare is an initiative of the #VTFPC in partnership with the AMA.

This summer, VCHI is happy to have Allison Hammond joining us as a Communications and Research Intern! Allison is a UVA graduate and headed to UNC Public Health this fall. We are grateful for her work on all things communications and research!

Join #VCHI in welcoming Cecelia Johnson to our team for the summer as a Health Policy Intern! Cece is a public policy major at William & Mary. We are happy to have her passion for research!

Thank you PCDC, Milbank Memorial Fund & The Milbank Quarterly, and Commonwealth Fund for hosting the 2025 Primary Care Investment Network meeting! #VCHI CSO Lauryn Walker joined Primary Care Collaborative (PCC)’s Larry McNeely, MHQPs’ Barbra Rabson and Molly Totman, and Partnership for a Healthy Nebraska’s Bob Rauner.

Today #VCHI CSO Lauryn Walker joined Purva Rawal, Former CSO CMSGov CMMI, to present "Unlocking State Levers for Innovation: Leveraging Industry and Federal Partnerships" at the Third Annual Medicaid Leadership Innovation Strategies in D.C. Thank you to all who joined us!