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New York State Department of Health Hospital Quality Rating Stakeholder Workgroup: final recommendations
New York State Department of Health Hospital Quality Rating Stakeholder Workgroup: final recommendations
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Contributor(s):
- United Hospital Fund of New York, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [New York, New York] : United Hospital Fund, January 21, 2020
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Consumer Advocacy
Health Communication
Hospitals
Quality Assurance, Health Care
New York
United States - Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Despite calls for greater transparency and continued public and private investment in publishing provider quality and cost information, online report cards have largely fallen short on delivering timely and meaningful information that can help drive consumer decisions about where to seek health care. To tackle this challenge, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) plans to empower consumers by making it easier for them to find, understand, and compare the quality of health care delivered by providers in the state. This will be achieved by expanding, reorganizing, and curating the existing information the NYSDOH provides online to allow easier use by consumers. In 2015, NYSDOH received a State Innovation Model (SIM) award from CMMI to implement a state health innovation plan to improve health, provide better health care quality and consumer experience and lower costs. Empowering consumers with information and engaging them in their health care decisions is a foundational driver of the model. By expanding the information currently available on its websites, NYSDOH is committed to making meaningful information about quality of health care more readily available to consumers, supporting SIM improvement goals. Early in 2019, the NYSDOH Office of Quality and Patient Safety engaged the United Hospital Fund (UHF) to organize, co-lead, and support two multi-stakeholder Workgroups--one for hospitals and one for primary care. To help solicit a broad range of perspectives and input, participants were selected from consumer advocacy groups, providers, payers, and professional and trade organizations. Both Workgroups were charged with making recommendations to NYSDOH for designing more user-friendly and meaningful provider profiles that could help inform health care decisions that New Yorkers commonly face. The remainder of this report outlines the recommendations and related deliberations of the Hospital Quality Stakeholder Workgroup, chaired by Anne Schettine, Director of the NYSDOH Office of Quality and Patient Safety, and Dr. Anthony Shih, UHF President. A separate report outlines the recommendations of the Primary Care Quality Rating Stakeholder Workgroup.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (13 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918266197206676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918266197206676