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Delivering Better Care

Delivering better care is a broad domain of research that includes assessing and improving the quality of care itself, expanding access to care, and understanding the many ways to organize and improve care in hospitals, health systems and other care settings.

Blog Post

Advancing Health Equity through Medicaid: Opportunities for States’ Managed Care Plans

Our third post in the Health Equity Blog series summarizes a discussion by researchers and policy administrators outlining opportunities for states to further health equity through managed care organizations. Representatives from Michigan also shared their efforts to embed health equity throughout their state’s Medicaid program.
Blog Post

New research finds a connection between police brutality and unmet needs for mental health care.

Previous evidence indicates that people exposed to police brutality are more likely to face mental health challenges like depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder, that Black people and people of color are more likely to experience police brutality, and, that these same populations are more likely to have unmet needs for mental health care. This plain language summary highlights new research from Alang et al. that connects these themes and demonstrates for the first time that exposure to police brutality is itself associated with unmet mental health needs.
Posted Nov 29, 2021 By Kristin Rosengren
Past Event

Webinar: Asking Better Questions, Making a Bigger Impact: A Changemaker Chat with Dr. Don Berwick and Dr. Rebekah Gee

This webinar allowed attendees to listen in on a virtual coffee chat between two noted changemakers: Dr. Don Berwick, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Dr. Rebekah Gee, CEO of Healthcare Services at Louisiana State University.
Date & Time September 8, 2021, 1:00-1:30 p.m. ET Location Online