September 9, 2011
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Program Results Report
From 2004 to 2010, the National Partnership for Women and Families in Washington organized a broad-based network of consumer advocates at the grassroots and national levels to bring the consumer perspective to health care quality issues.
September 1, 2011
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Report
Working-age adults with private insurance living in areas with a high rate of uninsurance were less likely than their peers in areas with a low uninsurance rate to have a usual source of care, an office-based visit, and any medical care expenditures.
August 10, 2011
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Story
For families that struggle to meet basic needs like adequate food or housing, clinical care is only part of the solution.
May 20, 2011
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Program Results Report
Researchers at the University of Southern Maine studied the state's Pathways to Excellence system of reporting on health care quality. Practices that filed reports had higher scores on six indicators of health care quality than those that did not.
May 10, 2011
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Story
For the past 15 years, the not-for-profit Health Leads has been redefining medical care.
May 9, 2011
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Video/Story
Health Leads relies on volunteer college students to "fill" prescriptions by connecting patients with vital resources.
April 18, 2011
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Program Results Report
The overarching objective of the Dartmouth Atlas is to report local and regional variation in the performance of U.S. health care to policymakers and health systems and to provide interpretation of unwarranted variation that can guide policy.
April 18, 2011
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Program Results Report
Ten hospitals throughout the country joined a collaborative learning network, developed strategies to improve the quality and accessibility of their language services, and tested them using five standardized performance improvement measures.
April 6, 2011
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Program Results Report
As the project manager at the University of Michigan said: "We could just grab the phone when patients came in who spoke languages for which we don't have an interpreter."
April 1, 2011
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Journal Article
Providing treatment for patients with substance abuse can result in significantly reduced lifetime medical costs. In order for more patients to receive substance abuse treatment, efforts must be made to increase acceptance of Medicaid at substance abuse facilities.