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Designed by the Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital
September 25 and 26
Le Meridien Hotel, Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Institute of Medicine Reports Crossing the Quality Chasm and Unequal Treatment highlight the critical nexus between improving quality, achieving equity, and eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Combined, they provide a blueprint for addressing disparities that will require concerted and coordinated efforts towards health systems change. For this to occur our health care system will need leaders in quality improvement who have the knowledge and skills necessary to develop strategies to achieve equity. To help reach this goal, we will be hosting a two-day conference entitled The Healthcare Quality and Equity Action Forum.
The Healthcare Quality and Equity Action Forum is designed for leaders that are active in health care delivery—including those from health plans, hospitals, and health centers across the country—who focus on quality improvement. It will provide participants with implementation strategies, tools, and skills to identify and address racial and ethnic disparities in health care within their organization, as well as techniques to transform organizations to focus on quality and equity. This includes:
- Presenting the latest research on racial and ethnic disparities in health care quality and health care delivery, including root causes and innovative approaches
- Providing cutting-edge quality improvement tools and strategies for identifying and addressing disparities, including how to collect race, ethnicity and language data; how to develop monitoring and measuring tools including equity dashboards and reports; and when disparities are found, how to develop quality improvement interventions to eliminate them
- Reviewing the key principles of organizational transformation and implementation science to facilitate integration of these strategies within health care delivery systems
- Sharing tactics to meet new Joint Commission and NCQA Standards, National Quality Forum Measures, and Health Care Reform initiatives that focus on disparities, quality, and equity.
- Creating an environment where participants can openly interact with experts in the field of quality, safety and disparities—as well as with their peers who are actively engaged in this work—so they can share challenges, experiences, and key lessons learned in an effort to maximize their potential for success in achieving equity.
The Healthcare Quality and Equity Action Forum will be developed and led by The Disparities Solutions Center (www.mghdisparitiessolutions.org) at Massachusetts General Hospital, directed by Dr. Joseph Betancourt, as well as alumni from the Disparities Leadership Program (http://www2.massgeneral.org/disparitiessolutions/dlprogram_about.html) which we developed and oversee. Forum faculty will consist of experts in the field, as well as those with real-world experience implementing equity strategies and solutions.
Additional information about the Forum is forthcoming. To stay posted, please register for updates by e-mailing us with your Name, Title, Organization, and E-Mail Address. Feel free to share with others who may be interested in attending.
Initial support is provided by The Amgen Foundation, Aetna, Inc., The California Healthcare Foundation, and a private donor.
Aswita Tan-McGrory, MBA, MSPH
Deputy Director of The Disparities Solutions Center
Massachusetts General Hospital
50 Staniford Street, 9th Floor, Suite 901
Boston, MA 02114
Email: atanmcgrory@partners.org
Phone: (617) 643-2916
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