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WASHINGTON, May 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Center for Sustainable Health Care Quality and Equity (SHC), a division of the National Minority Quality Forum (NMQF), today announced the expansion of its Demonstrating Real Improvement in Value and Equity (DRIVE) program to address racial and ethnic disparities surrounding COVID-19 among diverse and underserved communities. The COVID-19 DRIVE toolkit is intended to help primary care teams, health care systems, and community organizations improve health outcomes and vaccination rates as well as enhance quality performance. The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted communities of color due to embedded systemic factors. Black Americans are nearly twice as likely to die of COVID-19 and Latinos are three times as likely to be hospitalized, said Dr. Gary A. Puckrein, Ph.D., president and CEO of NMQF. In addition to tackling health disparities, the DRIVE toolkit works to address populat
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National Minority Quality Forum Launches Initiative Focused on Reducing Patient Risk
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WASHINGTON, April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Today, National Minority Quality Forum (NMQF) published the first blog in its What s Patient Risk Got to Do With it? series part of a new initiative focused on reducing patient risk by putting the focus of our healthcare system on patient outcomes rather than rationing care for short-term savings. National Minority Quality Forum is working to create a patient-centric risk model built around the precept that health systems should be designed and operated to reduce a patient s risk for an acute event while improving quality of life, said Dr. Gary A. Puckrein, Ph.D., CEO and President at NMQF.
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