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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Read All The Reports
Lots of interesting reports out in the past few days looking at Massachusetts health care access. Individually, each presents a slightly different picture, based on what they looked at and how they looked at it. One theme is that while … Continue reading
Posted in Health Disparities, MA Health Reform
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Colleges Addressing Mental Health Needs of Students: A Few Thoughts
NPR’s Morning Edition today featured a story about efforts by certain colleges to more effectively address the mental health needs of their students. A wide-ranging piece, there were some points worth pulling out and thinking about. Stigma remains a tragically … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Mental Health
Tagged children, Children\'s Mental Health, mental health
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Betsy Lehman Center Seeking Nominations for Patient Safety Award
The Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety and Medical Error Reduction is seeking nominations for its patient safety award. This annual award was established in 2005 to recognize leadership and innovation in patient safety, including public awareness, education and promotion … Continue reading
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Thanks and Congratulations to Sarah Iselin
We want to extend our warmest thanks and congratulations to Sarah Iselin who will be leaving her job as the Commissioner of the Division of Health Care Finance and Policy at the end of the year to take over the … Continue reading
Posted in MA Health Reform
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Reducing Medical Errors through National Health Reform
National health reform legislation includes some quality of care provisions but, as a Hearst newspapers article points out, none of the federal bills requires medical error reporting and only one (the House bill) requires public reporting of healthcare-associated infections. This … Continue reading
Looking to a Day When Access to Mental Health Services Doesn’t Depend on Where You Go to School
Working in conjunction with the Boston Public Health Commission, the Children’s Mental Health Campaign sponsored its 16th community forum in Allston at the Gardner Pilot Academy. It was an energetic and inspiring evening, with a mix of policy makers, elected … Continue reading
Want To Lower the Number of Uninsured? Look at the 19-21 Age Group
Think back to when you were 19. Were you a freshman in college? Living in your first apartment? Working your first full-time job? Living at home with your parents? There are certain age milestones in all of our lives. For … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Health, MA Health Reform
Tagged Children\'s Health, uninsurance, young adults
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Docs Dig Reform
In yet another data point in the category of health reform’s success, Massachusetts doctors support the Commonwealth’s health reform! Bob Blendon of the Harvard School of Public Health in conjunction with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Blue Cross … Continue reading
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Patient Safety Advocate, Sorrel King, Tells Her Emotional Story to HCFA
In just a matter of days, Sorrel King went from planning a welcome home party for her young daughter, to planning her funeral instead. But out of this tragedy, a mother has become a passionate, national patient safety advocate so … Continue reading
The Path to Payment Reform: We now have a Roadmap!
The HCQCC held their monthly meeting today. There were brief reports from the sub-committees starting with the Quality & Safety Committee, which gave a quick update on the Care Transitions Forum, the Expert Panel on Hospital Mortality, MOLST, and the … Continue reading
