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MHQP Introduces Measured Equity, a Statewide Initiative to Measure Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Patient Experiences

(September 2023)

We can no longer ignore the systemic racial and ethnic disparities in patient experiences that plague our healthcare system. Organizations across the state are taking action to address these disparities, but these complex issues can only be effectively addressed by working collaboratively across organizational lines, not in organizational siloes. At the Health Equity Trends Summit assembled by

MHQP Introduces Measured Equity, a Statewide Initiative to Measure Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Patient ExperiencesJonathan Small2023-11-13T14:26:48-05:00

MHQP Begins Annual Process to Update Clinical Guidelines with a Health Equity Focus

(September 2023)

It’s a valued resource for some, but not known by many ― MHQP’s Clinical Guidelines. Since 2001, MHQP has been helping to ensure all patients receive the same high standard of care through the annual publication of consistent, evidence-based, best practices guidelines for Adult Preventive Care, Pediatric Preventive Care

MHQP Begins Annual Process to Update Clinical Guidelines with a Health Equity FocusJonathan Small2023-09-26T12:21:10-04:00

MHQP Receives Second PCORI Award to Help Improve Care for Patients with Sickle Cell Disease

(May 2023)

In the summer of 2022, MHQP partnered with the Massachusetts Sickle Cell Association (MSCA) to lead a set of convenings to explore new directions for research into patient-centered approaches to help people with sickle cell disease (SCD) self-manage their pain. This effort was made possible through an award from

MHQP Receives Second PCORI Award to Help Improve Care for Patients with Sickle Cell DiseaseJonathan Small2023-06-07T09:21:10-04:00

2023 MHQP Clinical Guidelines Highlight the Impact of Systemic Racism on Health Outcomes

(April 2023)

“Patients may be more likely to develop type 2 diabetes if they are Black, Alaska Native, American Indian, Asian, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, or Hispanic/Latino.”

This was one of the “Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes” identified in the Diabetes section of last year’s version of MHQP’s Clinical Guidelines. MHQP

2023 MHQP Clinical Guidelines Highlight the Impact of Systemic Racism on Health OutcomesJonathan Small2023-11-27T08:51:57-05:00

MHQP Receives BCBSMA Foundation Grant to Explore Asian Patient Experiences

(March 2023)

Through a Special Initiatives grant from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation (BCBSMAF), MHQP has launched a new project designed to help better understand why Asian patients report worse experiences with primary care than other racial populations. A deeper understanding requires a more nuanced consideration of the

MHQP Receives BCBSMA Foundation Grant to Explore Asian Patient ExperiencesJonathan Small2023-04-29T15:16:55-04:00

Black, Hispanic and Asian Patients Report Worse Patient Experiences than White Patients in Massachusetts

(February 2023)

MHQP Convening Stakeholders to Explore Drivers of These Disparities and How to Reduce Them

Black, Asian and Hispanic patients report worse experiences than White, non-Hispanic patients in Massachusetts. This is the key finding of an analysis of data collected in MHQP’s annual statewide Patient Experience Survey of commercially-insured patients,

Black, Hispanic and Asian Patients Report Worse Patient Experiences than White Patients in MassachusettsJonathan Small2023-11-27T08:53:55-05:00

MHQP Welcomes Partners on Statewide Initiative to Measure Disparities in Patient Experience

(November 2022)

MHQP is excited to launch an initiative to measure racial and ethnic disparities in patient experiences across Massachusetts by utilizing the same instrument and methodology we have used to measure patient experience in the state since 2006.

Our aim is to broker consistency in health equity measurement throughout the state

MHQP Welcomes Partners on Statewide Initiative to Measure Disparities in Patient ExperienceJonathan Small2023-03-13T12:05:36-04:00

Study Finds Disparities in Telehealth Usage Since the Onset of the Pandemic

(November 2022)

The Department of Population Medicine at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, has released the results of a research study on telehealth use in the Commonwealth since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. MHQP supported the effort by collecting and analyzing qualitative interview data

Study Finds Disparities in Telehealth Usage Since the Onset of the PandemicJonathan Small2024-08-19T14:33:20-04:00

Stepping Out of Silos to Tackle Disparities

(September 2022)

Nearly 30 years ago, a Boston Globe Spotlight article highlighted “the worst hospitals” in Massachusetts based on high mortality rates. In the wake of that article, well before the measurement of healthcare quality was widely practiced and accepted, a forward-thinking group of healthcare, business and community leaders

Stepping Out of Silos to Tackle DisparitiesJonathan Small2024-08-19T14:09:40-04:00

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 MartinsJonathan Small2022-11-15T10:03:13-05:00