Tribute to Excellence Journal 2022 - Flipbook - Page 11
Improving Quality
Wide variations in the quality of health care stubbornly persist throughout our health care
system and unacceptable inequities continue to exist, even though New York has some of the
best institutions and clinicians in the world.
Our Clinical Quality Fellowship Program is training the next generation of quality improvement
champions—260 physicians to date, from more than 50 hospitals and health care systems throughout
the metropolitan area.
Our Quality Institute develops and promotes innovative strategies to improve health outcomes for
New Yorkers by strengthening and spreading best practices, enhancing quality measurement and
reporting, and better engaging and supporting patients and their families so that no one is left behind.
Our Skilled Nursing Learning Collaborative partners with skilled nursing facilities on important
quality issues such as improving transitions home so they are safer and more effective, and
addressing the problem of polypharmacy for long-stay residents whose multiple medications
may increase the likelihood of adverse effects.
Addressing Social Factors Driving Health Disparities
Stressors like inadequate housing, unemployment, poor nutrition, and poverty compound illness
and can cause lasting effects on physical and emotional well-being. There is an urgent demand
for innovative clinical-community partnerships to address these needs.
Our Pediatrics for an Equitable Developmental Start (PEDS) Network is a learning community
for pediatricians across New York, including a 15-month fellowship program, aimed at transforming
pediatric practices to achieve better health and educational outcomes for New York’s children and
strengthen families.
Our Framework for a Population Health Approach to Health and Housing Partnerships fostered
collaboration that facilitated the development of a pilot “medical respite” program to provide
recuperative care for New Yorkers experiencing homelessness as they leave the hospital.
Our Partnerships for Early Childhood Development initiative developed and strengthened
partnerships between pediatric primary care and community agencies to address families’
unmet social needs and promote healthy early childhood development and lifelong health.
Expanding Insurance Coverage and Access to Care
Medicaid enrollment grew by 1 million New Yorkers during the pandemic, illustrating the
importance of the state’s safety net at a critical time. Helping to support and strengthen
Medicaid and other insurance programs is critical, as is continued attention to the needs of
the more than 1 million New Yorkers who remain uninsured.
Our Health Insurance Project provides in-depth research and analysis to policymakers to help
protect and strengthen health insurance coverage and address complex, urgent issues that stand
between New Yorkers and affordable, quality health coverage and access to care.
Our Medicaid Institute works to improve health care for the more than 7 million New Yorkers who
rely on Medicaid. These include low-income workers, long-term care patients, individuals with
disabilities, and over 2 million children who live in low-income households.