(January 2025)
MHQP is pleased to welcome three accomplished individuals to its Board of Directors — Pam Ressler, Jeff Levin-Scherz and Tak Tang.
“We are absolutely thrilled to have Pam, Jeff and Tak on the board to help guide the organization into its future,” said Julita Mir, Chair of the MHQP Board of Directors. “Their unique perspectives and valued expertise will
(January 2025)
2024 was an unsettling year, as Massachusetts health care experienced unprecedented access challenges, widespread clinician burnout, and other unanticipated disruptions. Through all the uncertainty and turmoil, MHQP continued to be a reliable source of data to help us all better understand patient experiences, an innovative force for transparency and
(August 2024)
MHQP is pleased to announce that we have received a funding award through the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award Program, an initiative of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, to identify new research directions to address mistrust in healthcare within the Black community. This work will be conducted in collaboration with team members from Boston Medical Center’s implementation
(July 2024)
In July, as the Massachusetts Legislature neared the end of its session, MHQP leaders helped push for draft legislation that would establish a Primary Care Task Force in Massachusetts. This Task Force would help lead the Commonwealth out of its current primary care crisis by studying primary care
Every two years, in partnership with the Center for Health Information Analysis (CHIA), MHQP collects clinical quality performance data from the state’s health plans for commercially insured patients in primary care practices across the Commonwealth.
(June 2024)
“When you’re in healthcare, data is what moves the needle. Having quantitative or qualitative patient experience data as someone on the ground in healthcare and being able to go to your leadership and say, ‘Look how we’re performing,’ or ‘Look what this patient said about this experience,’ that kind
(May 20, 2024)
MHQP is pleased to have made a significant contribution over the past few years to the growing awareness of the fragile state of primary care in Massachusetts. Last week, in collaboration with MHQP, the Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) released an updated dashboard to measure the health of primary care
(May 2024)
The Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA), in collaboration with MHQP, today released the latest primary care dashboard to monitor the health of the primary care system in the Commonwealth.
A high-functioning primary care system can lead to better patient outcomes, lower costs, and more
(May 2024)
Barbra Rabson and Katherine Gergen Barnett have collaborated again, this time on a commentary in Perspectives in Primary Care, published by the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care. The opinion piece, entitled “Lessons from Steward and the Need for Primary Care Reform in Massachusetts,” traces the roots of
(April 2024)
MHQP is pleased to have played a key role in providing data, insights and connections to help create several recently published prominent stories about the critical issue of primary care access in Massachusetts.
Please note that the Boston Globe articles are behind a paywall.
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