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Enrique Martinez-Vidal Enrique Martinez-Vidal is a Vice President at AcademyHealth and the Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's State Coverage Initiatives (SCI) program which works with state policy leaders to develop strategies to improve insurance coverage and foster broad health care reform. Enrique joined AcademyHealth in February 2005 as the deputy director of SCI. He is currently the project director for the State Quality Improvement Institute, a project of the Commonwealth Fund to assist states that are ready to make substantial commitments to quality improvement and to facilitate development of concrete action plans for further progress. He also has worked on various projects under a contract with the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) including the oversight of a state-level environmental scan of quality initiatives to help determine how a partnership could be developed between AHRQ and states regarding quality improvement; and a pilot project that presented AHRQ's State Snapshots to four states in an effort to create an ongoing dialogue about how these reports can be used for state-level quality improvement. Previously Mr. Martinez-Vidal was the deputy director for performance and benefits at the Maryland Health Care Commission, an independent state agency. There he was responsible for the oversight of Maryland's small group insurance market reforms; the annual evaluation of Maryland's mandated health insurance benefits; the collection and public dissemination of quality and performance information for hospitals, nursing homes and health plans; providing primary assistance on all legislative issues; and working on numerous other projects related to the affordability of health care, quality improvement, and patient safety. Mr. Martinez-Vidal was formerly a policy analyst with the Maryland Department of Legislative Services for five years. During that time he staffed the House Economic Matters Committee and was involved with a number of health-care related issues. He has a B.A. in political science and international studies from Dickinson College and a master's degree in public policy from Georgetown University. Tel: 202.292.6729 |
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