Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Joins the Cardiometabolic Center Alliance as a Charter Member

WINSTON-SALEM, NC—The Cardiometabolic Center Alliance (CMCA) is pleased to announce the addition of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist as a Charter Member. The goal of the Alliance is to improve the care and outcomes of patients living with type 2 diabetes, metabolic disease, and related comorbidities such as cardiovascular and kidney diseases.

Through their participation, Alliance members contribute to a national registry that tracks treatment patterns and quality of care measures. CMCA Patient Registry data reveals when the CMCA model of care is applied, rates of optimal guideline-directed medical therapy substantially increase, ensuring that patients receive optimized care that provides comprehensive cardiovascular risk reduction with the ultimate goal of improved patient outcomes.

"The addition of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, a healthcare leader throughout North Carolina as a member of the CMCA further strengthens our efforts in delivering comprehensive, team-based, coordinated care to patients living with cardiometabolic disease,” said Dr. Mikhail Kosiborod, Executive Director of the CMCA. “This partnership is a substantial step forward in our common goal of improving patient-centered care and clinical outcomes and we are excited to work together to achieve our aligned mission.” 

“Joining this alliance enables our cardiologists, endocrinologists and scientists to work closely with others across the country to discover even better ways to care for our patients who are at high risk for cardiovascular disease,” said Dr. Michael Shapiro, director of Wake Forest Baptist’s Center for Preventive Cardiology and a professor of cardiology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. “As the region’s only academic learning health system, we are looking forward to collaborating to provide evidence-based preventive care and helping improve outcomes for the patients we serve.” 

About The Cardiometabolic Center Alliance 
The Cardiometabolic Center Alliance is a national collaborative of healthcare organizations committed to the mission of improving the quality of care and outcomes in patients with cardiometabolic disease. Across its aligned member sites, care is delivered via a standardized, patient-centered, team-based, comprehensive risk-reduction approach based on a novel care model designed and successfully implemented by Saint Luke’s Michael & Marlys Haverty Cardiometabolic Center of Excellence in Kansas City, Missouri. 

Alliance members adopt and implement a novel care model designed and successfully implemented by Saint Luke’s Michael & Marlys Haverty Cardiometabolic Center of Excellence in Kansas City, Missouri. Based on the initial data, under this model the rates of optimal guideline-directed medical therapy substantially increased over the national average, ensuring that patients with T2D receive care that is aimed at both optimizing diabetes management and providing comprehensive cardiovascular risk reduction with therapies proven to improve outcomes. These results are made possible by a unified team of clinicians from across the disease continuum, who focus on holistic, guideline-directed preventative care. Through their participation, Alliance members also contribute to a national registry that track treatment patterns and quality of care. As the Alliance enhances its capabilities, improves processes, and expands research opportunities on a national scale, the ultimate goal is improved patient outcomes. 

About Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist 
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist (www.wakehealth.edu) is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and part of Advocate Health, the third-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, which was created through the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest University School of Medicine, the academic core of Advocate Health and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist employs more than 22,000 teammates, part of Advocate Health’s 150,000 teammates. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist provided a record-setting $767.5 million in community benefit in 2022, which includes unreimbursed care, financial assistance, education and research, and community health improvement. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.