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1. Appendix E: Resources and Tools To Address Language and Cultural Barriers and Improve Patient Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   September 01, 2020 - look at select hospitals and their use of patient race, ethnicity, and language data. … participated in RWJF's Speaking Together: National Language Services Network, a program aimed at improving … duplication in the field; coalesce existing efforts into a single national certification program; further … Language Access Services in Healthcare Organizations The Office of Minority Health has sponsored the … development of this guide to help health care organizations implement effective language access services

2. 5. Improving Data Collection across the Health Care System | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   May 01, 2018 - The aggregate data means CHCs can look at trends across populations and compare outcomes by different … can be stratified by race, ethnicity, and language need and can look at episodes of care and care coordination … , and other services, may be in a strong position to collect race, ethnicity, and language data because … the health of a population and current and future needs for health care services ( Ezzati-Rice and Curtin … from a national standard set A question to determine English-language proficiency A question about

3. Webinar Transcript - The 2014 Quality and Disparities Report and the National Quality Strategy: Working Together to Improve Health Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   November 01, 2016 - Department of Health and Human Services. Nancy. … They cover a broad range of services and settings, so we have hospitals, nursing homes, home health, … In particular, we had a website that focused on state contrasts, so you could look to see how your state … your efforts on particular geographic areas or population in your state, wherein if you have poor quality … I have access to this mailbox and I'll look at it and we'll try to make sure that we answer your questions

4. State Documentation of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities to Inform Strategic Action
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   July 01, 2016 - state and national efforts to reduce disparities: Mirtha Beedle , Deputy Director at the Office of … to measure and address them at the federal and state level. 9 Recent National Efforts Two examples … Access to translated materials and/or language services, if needed (NJ, CT) ✓     ✓ ✓   … throughout the state, and at a regional and national conference. … conducted a survey about language access services with the local health departments and community health

5. Looking Forward | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   June 01, 2018 - Health Care System Access and Disparities in Access to Health Care Quality and Disparities in Quality … and affordable care at the national level using the available nationally representative data. … It is a collaborative model of medical education and care management to increase access to specialty … Recently, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities launched a new resource … Policymakers, researchers, and others can use these findings to direct future efforts toward making health

6. Chapter 4: Defining Language Need and Categories for Collection, cont. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   August 01, 2021 - Improving access to language services in health care: A look at national and state efforts. … Language spoken and differences in health status, access to care, and receipt of preventive services … Executive order 13166 - improving access to services for persons with limited English proficiency. … Language preference as a predictor of access to and use of healthcare services among Hispanics in the … Detailed list of languages spoken at home for the population years and over by state: 2000. http://www.census.gov

7. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (pdf file)
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   January 01, 2020 - about state and national efforts to reduce disparities: Mirtha Beedle, Deputy Director at the Office … to measure and address them at the federal and state level.9 Recent National Efforts Two examples … Access to translated materials and/or language services, if needed (NJ, CT) Cost 1. … groups throughout the state, and at a regional and national conference … survey about language access services with the local health departments and community health centers

8. Improving Patient Safety Systems for Patients With Limited English Proficiency: A Guide for Hospitals (pdf file)
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   September 01, 2012 - Improving Access to Interpreter Services At Massachusetts General Hospital, in addition to having in-person … Language access in health care statement of principles. … Improving quality of health care relies on effective language services. … participated in RWJF’s Speaking Together: National Language Services Network, a program aimed at improving … Language Access Services in Healthcare Organizations • The Office of Minority Health has sponsored

9. Improving Patient Safety Systems for Patients With Limited English Proficiency: A Guide for Hospitals (pdf file)
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   September 01, 2012 - Improving Access to Interpreter Services At Massachusetts General Hospital, in addition to having in-person … Language access in health care statement of principles. … Improving quality of health care relies on effective language services. … participated in RWJF’s Speaking Together: National Language Services Network, a program aimed at improving … Language Access Services in Healthcare Organizations • The Office of Minority Health has sponsored

10. Executive Summary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2020 - , speak a language other than English at home. … Confused by having performed a carpal-tunnel release operation immediately prior and in a state of agitation … Helping patients gain access to English as a second language (ESL) courses is one step. 27 However, … The National Council on Interpreting in Health Care and the International Medical Interpreters Association … have developed national certification standards to guide the design of services, processes, and programs

11. 2016 CMS Quality Strategy (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2016 - populations; monitor health status, health care, and health policies at the national, state, local, … Improving access to essential services requires three forms of innovation: (1) technological, to ensure … services aimed at managing and improving care at the local level • Expanded use of person experience … prevention and treatment; • Improving access to coordinated services so that prevention-focused health … focus new initiatives on improving access to utilization of preventive services in low-income and minority

12. Chapter 1: Background on Patient Safety and LEP Populations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2020 - safety efforts are now a central component of efforts to improve the quality of care for all patients … With the passage of health care reform and an additional 32 million uninsured Americans having access … , or are not proficient in the patient's and clinicians' languages. … of language interpreting and translating services. … Speaking Together: National Language Services Network, a project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

13. Strategies for Improving CAHPS Clinician & Group (CG-CAHPS) Survey Scores (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2016 - people can deposit their data and then have access to national comparative data. … experience with behavioral health services. … access; our overall work to do well at population health management. … Twenty-three percent state they're best served in a language other than English, and about 81% are below … They come together and look at the data, identify best practices and implement improvement efforts.

14. Hospital Language Services: Quality Improvement and Performance Measures (pdf file)
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    May 08, 2008 - health status and diminished access to health care are frequent challenges. … Language Services Measures Speaking Together is the first national QI collaborative focusing on improving … Without national benchmarks related to quality of care in language services, the Speaking Together … Racial and ethnic differences in children’s access to care. … How race/ethnicity, immigration status and language affect health insurance coverage, access to care

15. In Conversation with…William B. Weeks, MD, MBA | PSNet
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    May 01, 2013 - His research centers on business and economics in health services delivery and how they apply to physician … RW: As you look at evidence from the Dartmouth studies of what appears to be overuse in certain markets … them with some of the language and the ways that the financial guys look at things. … each other's languages, if you will, and to be able to partner a little better in considering how to … Assuming that we don't go to a national health care plan, my sense is that bigger employers will do this

16. National Pcep Meeting White Paper (doc file)
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    May 05, 2014 - , state, and national level. … look like? … community health workers (thus providing employment opportunities as well as improving access to care … Webinar hosted by the National Academy for State Health Policy held on May 5, 2014. 6. … National Academy for State Health Policy Briefing. June 2012. 9. Mold JW.

17. State and Regional Demonstrations in Health Information Technology: Colorado - Final Report (pdf file)
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    July 01, 2015 - aimed at improving health care for patients and populations on a discrete State or regional level. … providers look at aggregated data. … Through those efforts we had access to many State entities—executive branch (Governor’s policy advisors … Early efforts looked at the AHRQ-funded State and Regional Demonstration model in Utah developed by … The security assertion markup language is a tool that could support easier user access without the laborious

18. Expanding and Enhancing All Payer Claims Database System Capacity in States | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2018 - State representatives to attend a Fifth National APCD Conference and to offset conference costs. … Enhance the utility of State APCDs by highlighting best practice in applications for health services … the value of the data in improving the cost and quality of the health care delivery system. … to individual State design efforts. … NAHDO and the Council have been providing these services at no or low cost to States; as more States

19. Microsoft Word - C18RECaseStudyReportforWEBfinal99.docx (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2020 - reporting health care access and utilization data by race, ethnicity, and primary language, and including … , and treatment outcomes at the national, state, and local levels. … a group to measure disparities in health and health care in the state. … the following: • Health Disparities Report 2008: A County-Level Look at Health Outcomes for Minorities … Health Disparities Report 2008: A County-Level Look at Health Outcomes for Minorities in Georgia.

20. Positioning Medicaid and CHIP for the Future: Health IT Regulations, Initiatives, and Opportunities (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2009 - , HCFA/CMS; a state government, MN Dept. of Human Services/Medicaid Director; and a county government … In building a strategic plan, look at your strengths and weaknesses because you want to manage your … try to look at it prospectively and look at relational databases to look at multiple pieces of information … they need to have access to cultural and language needs of individuals, which is where we get the Web … The states will need to amend state plans, look at state laws, and deal with state legislature to make