How well are your health-care providers doing?

Puget Sound Health Alliance will release its latest report on how well participating health-care providers are meeting health-care quality standards this Thursday morning, November 13.

The Alliance’s Community Checkup report assesses such things as: how well health-care providers do in providing surgical care and heart attack prevention care; how well they manage chronic conditions such as diabetes, depression and asthma; and how well to they communicate with patients.

The report will be the most comprehensive assessment of health-care quality in the region ever done, the Alliance says.

More than 30 hospitals, 45 medical groups and 170 clinics are participating in the program, which is designed to promote higher quality health care in the region.

All told, more than 40 measures of care are assessed in the report.

The meeting will be held Thursday morning, November 13 at 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. in the Downtown Seattle Public Library 1000 Fourth Avenue, Seattle.

A discussion with the media, running from 9:15 a.m. – 9.45 a.m., will follow.

The speakers will be:

• Mary McWilliams & Karen Onstad, Puget Sound Health Alliance
• David Fleming, M.D., Seattle-King County Public Health & Alliance Board Chair
• Andrew Baron, M.D., MultiCare
• Lindsay Geyer, Port Blakely Companies
• Vazaskia Caldwell, Patient Navigator Program / DSHS.

The new report will be made available online on the 13th at:  www.WACommunityCheckup.org

The previous report is presently on the site.

Tags: Health-care Quality, Medical Errors, Puget Sound Healthcare Alliance, Quality Improvement

Category: Health-care Policy, Hospital News