You Don’t Find, What You Aren’t Looking For
Primary Impact: Equity Sat, 2011-07-16read more
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Standardizing Language Data Improves Patient Care
Primary Impact: Equity Tue, 2011-08-23 Ashland Community Hospital in Oregon, part of the AF4Q Hospital Quality Network Improving Language Services program, improved rates for screening preferred...
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Healthy Memphis Common Table Releases Equity Report – First Ever for Region
Primary Impact: Equity Wed, 2011-08-24 In May 2011, Healthy Memphis Common Table released its Take Charge - Health Equity Report -- the first of its kind in the region. The fourth release in HMCT Take...
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Equity in Health Care: What Does It Mean to Physicians?
Primary Impact: Equity Wed, 2011-08-24read more
View ArticleQuality = Equality
Primary Impact: Equity Wed, 2011-09-07 The ability to reduce disparities is predicated on collecting and analyzing the data; and implementing strategies to improve the quality of care provided for all...
View ArticleWest Michigan and Detroit Hospitals Collaborate to Improve Language Services
Primary Impact: Equity Wed, 2011-09-07read more
View ArticleTelephones on a Pole Increase Medical Interpreter Use
Primary Impact: Equity Wed, 2011-09-07read more
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Interpreters Bring Washington Hospital Closer to Peak Performance
Primary Impact: Equity Wed, 2011-09-07read more
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Using Data to Measure Equity
Primary Impact: Equity Wed, 2011-09-07 Health care is full of disparities. Federal data consistently show that minorities, women, and other groups consistently receive poorer quality care. However,...
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Innovative Technology Improves Interpreting Service Efficiency
Primary Impact: Equity Mon, 2012-01-09read more
View ArticleFinding Answers: Disparities Research for Change—An Update
Primary Impact: Equity Wed, 2012-01-18read more
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We Ask Because We Care
Primary Impact: Equity Wed, 2012-02-22 We Ask Because We Care The five major health systems in Cincinnati are asking patients to identify their race, ethnicity, and preferred language (R/E/L). The...
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Healthy Memphis Common Table Releases Report on Health Equity
Primary Impact: Equity Wed, 2012-02-29read more
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A Patient's Story: Integrating Equity in PCMH
Primary Impact: Equity Other Impacts: Patient-Centered Care Wed, 2012-05-23 In practice, patient-centered health care should fit the unique needs and preferences of individual patients, instead of a...
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Healthy Memphis Common Table Tackles Food Deserts
Primary Impact: Equity Other Impacts: Consumer Engagement Fri, 2012-06-01Successful multi-stakeholder alliances take many shapes and sizes. In AF4Q, these groups include those who receive care,...
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Using EMR to Improve Interpreter Access
Primary Impact: Hospital Care Other Impacts: Equity Mon, 2012-06-04 To increase physician usew and documentation of interpreter services, St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison, WI, added a physician Best...
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Bringing Farm-Fresh Foods to an Urban Community Fighting Obesity
Primary Impact: Equity Wed, 2012-12-19The term “food desert” has been mentioned widely. Many have questioned whether living in a food desert contributes to obesity because of the preponderance of fast...
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One Size Doesn't Fit All
Primary Impact: Equity Wed, 2013-05-08It all begins with data. When you slice and dice the numbers, African Americans with diabetes in Wisconsin are four times more likely than Caucasians with...
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Addressing Health Disparities
Primary Impact: Equity Wed, 2013-08-07 Memphis, TN, is a city of diversity. According to the latest census data, 63 percent of the population is African American.read more
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Detroit Working To Reduce Health Care Disparities
Primary Impact: Equity Other Impacts: Equity Wed, 2014-02-26The Detroit Alliance has garnered positive media attention for its efforts to reduce disparities in care. Marshall Chin, MD, director of...
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Simple Questions, Better Care
Primary Impact: Equity Wed, 2014-06-04Asking patients their race, ethnicity, and language preferences can feel awkward for busy hospital registration staff, but Cincinnati-area hospitals have found...
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Quality Field Notes: Equity
Primary Impact: Equity Tue, 2014-07-01Quality Field Notes features key lessons learned by regional Alliances of clinicians, patients, and payers in Aligning Forces for Quality communities as they work...
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Improving Care Through Screening and Public Reporting
Other Impacts: Equity Measurement & Reporting Thu, 2014-07-31Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States and the leading cause of cancer deaths...
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Breaking Down the Barriers to Health Care in Detroit
Primary Impact: Equity Other Impacts: Care Across Settings Thu, 2014-10-23 Detroit health care leaders are working to improve access to health care by addressing chronic disease, better communicating...
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Helping Underserved Neighborhoods Get the Care They Need
Primary Impact: Equity Tue, 2014-11-18 Health care leaders in Boston are helping residents in traditionally underserved communities get the resources they need to improve their health. Local health...
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Helping At-Risk Patients Change Their Outlook
Primary Impact: Patient-Centered Care Other Impacts: Equity Tue, 2014-11-18 Health care leaders in and around Buffalo are improving how vulnerable patients in the area’s “safety net” clinics receive...
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Making Health Care Equitable For All
Primary Impact: Equity Tue, 2014-11-18 Health care leaders in Memphis are making strides to reduce long-standing racial and ethnic disparities in the care residents receive. These efforts, which range...
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Language is the Heart of Patient Safety
Primary Impact: Equity Tue, 2014-12-02Moe Rustom of Detroit has been a nurse for more than 23 years and understands the challenges of limited English proficiency in patients as a provider. He believes...
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A Decade of Difference
Primary Impact: Equity Tue, 2014-12-02The very suggestion that a patient may be treated differently based on skin color or origin is, frankly, as insulting as it is absurd. Yet we can’t deny our...
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Waist Deep in Trouble
Primary Impact: Equity Tue, 2014-12-02The blizzard of ’78 was tumultuous in Boston, and it also represented a tumultuous time in health for the Roxbury community in Boston. There was little access to...
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Safety-Net ACOs Hold Promise to Achieve the Triple Aim
Primary Impact: Care Across Settings Other Impacts: Ambulatory Care Equity Wed, 2015-01-21Aligning Forces Alliances in Maine, Minnesota, and Oregon were recently featured in Health Affairs for their...
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