NQS Webinar: Best Practices to Improve Community Health

NQS Webinar: Best Practices to Improve Community Health



What do health care quality and community health initiatives have in common? They both occur in and out of traditional health care settings and can be used to achieve the National Quality Strategy’s aims to provide better, more affordable care to individuals and the community. The next National Quality Strategy Webinar features presenters from the Office of the Surgeon General of the United States and the Boston Children’s Hospital Community Asthma Initiative, who will address best practices from their work in this important intersection of quality and community health. Click Here to Register Now.

This interactive Webinar will:

• Connect the three aims of the National Quality Strategy to health and health care beyond the traditional health care system   • Spotlight the Office of the Surgeon General of the United States’ community health initiatives   • Feature the work of Boston Children’s Community Asthma Initiative, an individualized disease management program that has reported consistent decreases in hospital utilization and costs as well as improved health among the children it serves by addressing social determinants of health

When: August 6, 2015, 2:30 – 3:30 PM ET

Presenters:

• Nancy J. Wilson, M.D., M.P.H., B.S.N., Executive Lead for the National Quality Strategy   • Nazleen Bharmal, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.P., Director of Science and Policy, Office of the Surgeon General of the United States   • Ayesha Cammaerts, M.B.A., Manager, Programs and Population Health, Office of Community Health, Boston Children's Hospital

Registration:

To register, visit https://cc.readytalk.com/r/n07ztf97787&eom

To learn more about the topic of this Webinar, read the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s recently published Chartbook on Healthy Living, which highlights trends across measures of Healthy Living from the 2014 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report. In conjunction with this release, the National Quality Strategy published a Priority in Action featuring the Boston Children’s Hospital Community Asthma Initiative, which was developed to address disparities in pediatric asthma hospitalizations and improve the health and quality of life of children with asthma and their families.