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The Primary Care Dashboard Paints a Troubling Picture for Massachusetts Healthcare

By Barbra G. Rabson

(June 2025)

 “We’re beyond a crisis.”

That is how State Senator Cindy Friedman chose to characterize the current state of primary care in the Commonwealth in her opening remarks to Massachusetts’ newly established Primary Care Access, Delivery, and Payment Task Force in April.

The updated data in the Primary Care Dashboard released last week by the Center

The Primary Care Dashboard Paints a Troubling Picture for Massachusetts Healthcare2025-06-12T10:12:01-04:00

Expanding MHQP’s Impact: Insights and Opportunities in Behavioral Health

(January 2025)

MHQP’s Board of Directors has recommended an expansion in MHQP’s work scope to include primary care-adjacent clinical areas, particularly behavioral health. The Board sees a critical need for MHQP’s measurement expertise and sense-making capabilities in this space, given behavioral health’s significant impact on physical health and overall healthcare costs. This need has become even more urgent given

Expanding MHQP’s Impact: Insights and Opportunities in Behavioral Health2025-03-12T13:41:41-04:00

Lessons from Steward and the Need for Primary Care Reform in Massachusetts

(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

Lessons from Steward and the Need for Primary Care Reform in Massachusetts2024-05-23T10:16:32-04:00

Unsustainable: An Honest Assessment of Massachusetts’ Healthcare Performance

By Barbra G. Rabson

(July 2023)

Last month, the Commonwealth Fund published its annual scorecard on state health performance and gave Massachusetts the top overall ranking. The ranking was based on several metrics collected in 2019, 2020 and 2021 covering seven categories ― Reproductive and Women’s Health, Access and

Unsustainable: An Honest Assessment of Massachusetts’ Healthcare Performance2023-11-27T08:55:29-05:00

Massachusetts Can Finally Measure the Health of Primary Care

(An editorial published online by The Boston Globe on January 25, 2023, by Barbra G. Rabson and Katherine Gergen Barnett)

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), a nationally renowned institution of science,

Massachusetts Can Finally Measure the Health of Primary Care2024-05-15T17:39:16-04:00

MHQP Celebrates Barbara Spivak and Julita Mir

(November 2022)

MHQP is pleased to celebrate the invaluable contributions of two members of our Board of Directors, Barbara Spivak, MD, and Julita Mir, MD, both of whom have an enormous impact on MHQP’s strategy and direction.

Barbara Spivak, MD

A primary care provider and President and CEO of the Mount Auburn Cambridge

MHQP Celebrates Barbara Spivak and Julita Mir2022-11-16T12:32:40-05:00

Employee Spotlight: Raji Rajan

(November 2022)

Raji Rajan, MBA, MS, and her husband, Raj, both decided to shift their careers to work in healthcare after the medical procedure that saved Raj’s life. This was back in 2008. Raji was spending her days working as a Senior Software Engineer at Fidelity and her evenings helping Raj

Employee Spotlight: Raji Rajan2023-05-16T08:42:17-04:00

Evaluating Patient Experiences of Primary Care by Visit Mode and Visit Reason During the Pandemic

(September 2022)

MHQP’s Jim Courtemanche, Nathalie McIntosh, Raji Rajan and Barbra Rabson co-authored, along with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts’ Mark Friedberg, an important study investigating adult patient experiences of, and satisfaction with, in-person, video, and telephone visits in primary care during the COVID-19

Evaluating Patient Experiences of Primary Care by Visit Mode and Visit Reason During the Pandemic2024-08-19T14:40:14-04:00

Employee Spotlight: Natalya Martins

(August 2022)

Natalya Martins, MPH, has a placard with a quote from Indigenous Australian and activist Lilla Wilson hanging in her office:

“If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work

Employee Spotlight: Natalya Martins2022-11-15T10:03:13-05:00
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