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Strengthening Primary Care

Web2023: A Year of Expanding Our Impact. (January 2024) 2023 was an eventful year for MHQP, a year in which we continued expanding beyond our historical focus on measuring patient experience and took important …

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CHIA and MHQP Release First-Ever Dashboard to …

Web“Primary care services represent a vital component of the health care ecosystem in the Commonwealth and access to these services can meaningfully shape patient care and outcomes,” said Lauren Peters, …

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MHQP Begins Annual Process to Update Clinical Guidelines with a …

Web(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 …

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Massachusetts Can Finally Measure the Health of …

WebPrimary care spending represents less than 8 percent of overall medical spending and declined across all insurance categories from 2019 to 2020. Capacity: Primary care workforce and pipeline. In 2020, …

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We Need Better Data to Tackle Health Disparities, Massachusetts

Web~MHQP Serves as Critical Source of Information for this Important Report~ (January 2022) To truly advance its equity goals, Massachusetts must take a leadership …

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Healthcare Survey Experts

WebToday, Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP) is an independent, non-profit measurement and reporting organization that brings together key stakeholder groups (providers, payers and patients) in Massachusetts …

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The Value of Primary Care: How Come They See It and We Don’t

Web“Primary care is the only health care component where an increased supply is associated with better population health and more equitable outcomes. For this reason, …

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Health Equity Lens Brings New Focus to MHQP’s …

WebThe World Health Organization defines the social determinants of health as “conditions in which people are born, grow, live, and work and age [that] are shaped by the distribution of money, power, …

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Strategies to Enhance Patient Engagement in Primary Care

Web(November 2017) Patient engagement has emerged as an essential element of effective care. Health care leaders around the country have begun to recognize that engaging …

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Capturing Patient Experience

WebMHQP is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 “MHQP Patient Experience Awards.”. MHQP introduced this award program in 2018 as a way to recognize the …

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Enhancing Telehealth

WebNow that the pandemic has forced virtual care to the forefront, we have both an opportunity and a responsibility to enhance telehealth as an effective and sustainable component of …

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MHQP Patient Experience Awards

WebMHQP recognizes the primary care practices that perform highest on its annual statewide Patient Experience Survey through a new awards program called the “ MHQP Patient …

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MHQP Future of Primary Care Roundtable Participants

WebBehavioral Health Program Manager. Partners HealthCare. Zirui Song, PhD, MD. Assistant Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine. Harvard Medical School. …

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News & Views

WebBy Barbra G. Rabson. (July 2023) Last month, the Commonwealth Fund published its annual scorecard on state health performance and gave Massachusetts the top overall …

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A Vision for the Future of Primary Care

Web(January 2021) Primary care is at a crossroads. In the fall of 2019, after Governor Baker proposed an unprecedented increase of investment in primary care and …

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Primary Care’s Value Proposition and the Damage Done by the …

WebPCPs confirm that primary care has provided crucial services to keep patients healthy during the pandemic by offering mental health support (70% MA, 72% …

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Study Finds Disparities in Telehealth Usage Since the Onset of the

WebThe Department of Population Medicine at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, has released the results of a research study …

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The Need to Measure Patient Experience of Oral Health Care: A …

WebRigorous surveys to measure patients’ experiences of health care are common practice in general medical care to improve patient centered care. However, …

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Julita Mir, MD, Brings Insights and Expertise as MHQP’s New …

WebOver time, Julita took on more responsibility at the health center, ultimately becoming the medical director, and then the Chief Medical Officer (CMO). In 2017, she …

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We Need Bolder Actions to Take On Our Primary Care Crisis

WebSenator Cindy Friedman and Wayne Altman are championing Primary Care for You (PC4You), proposed legislation to increase Massachusetts’ investment in …

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Winners of MHQP’s 2022 Patient Experience Awards Provide Best …

Web(February 2023) Primary care practices are facing unprecedented challenges in the wake of the pandemic due to staffing shortages, inadequate reimbursement policies, changing …

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