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2009-2010 PRIORITIES Quality Watch and Health Equity Initiatives |
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One way to measure the success of health system reforms is by the extent to which they have reduced barriers to care based on ethnicity, socio-economic status, or geographic location. To this end, UHPP will focus on: • Developing the statewide infrastructure and capacity to improve overall quality of care and reduce health disparities; • Ensuring that health equity provisions are built into health system reforms. • Providing research support, policy expertise, and advocacy training to the Multicultural Health Network, a Comunidades Unidas-hosted public-private sector partnership dedicated to eliminating health disparities and improving health outcomes for Utah's ethnic minority communities. For more information: Options for Joining the Utah Multicultural Health Network. • Maximizing the role of CHIP and Medicaid in reducing health disparities. • Ensuring that the quality, cost, and access provisions of the health system reforms are rigorously applied to Medicaid and CHIP. • Ensuring that consumers' interests are well represented in statewide quality improvement and transparency efforts like the state's new Chartered Value Exchange and electronic medical records. Download our recent report, Integrating Quality into Utah's Health System Reforms, a collaboration with HealthInsight, the state's Federally-funded QIO (quality improvement organization). Senate Bill on Quality (excerpts) For a list of Fact Sheets and Papers on Quality Watch & Health Equity click here. |
