This Indiana Clinic Has Patient-Care Stats Worth Bragging About

(By Dan Weissmann for Kaiser Health News)

When I visited Dr. James Gingerich, he launched into some of the nerdiest bragging I’ve ever heard.

We were chatting in front of his stand-up desk at Maple City Health Care Center, the clinic he founded and runs in Goshen, Ind.

“Here’s our data,” he said, and started clicking through a set of preventive care benchmarks.

His graphs compare Maple City’s performance to that of other clinics across the state — clinics like his that get federal funds.  Continue reading article here…

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