Deb Wachenheim, HCFA’s Health Quality Manager, was interviewed recently by Helen Osborne, a health literacy expert, about Patient and Family Advisory Councils-what they are, how they can make a difference in health care, and how HCFA and the Consumer Health Quality Council were able to successfully advocate for legislation requiring all Massachusetts hospitals to have them in place by October 1, 2010.
Go to the website Health Literacy Out Loud to listen to the podcast and see links to on-line resources. Scroll through the website to find links to many other interesting podcasts on a variety of topics relating to health literacy, communication, and patient engagement. For more about PFACs, an op-ed about PFACs, signed by HCFA executive director Amy Whitcomb Slemmer, recently appeared in the Standard Times.
-Deb Wachenheim
Doesn’t this look much like a first Lady going Gaga over the Urban Health Initiative “patient dumping’ in Chicago?