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Quality
Improvement Council
Serve
as key regional leaders and partners in community-based
initiatives and efforts to reduce disparities in the quality of
healthcare, locally and nationally.
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Identify the problems related
to quality and healthcare disparities.
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Host Town Hall meetings
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Identify key concerns, ideas,
and initiatives
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Sponsor education and outreach
programs
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Develop measuring tools to
gauge how we are doing.
Define and formulate benchmarks
for quality of care for minority and underserved populations.
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Research and analysis of needs
and gaps
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Measure available data for
respective diseases, conditions, and issue areas
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Identify cost-effective,
efficacious, and evidence-based strategies
Identify system-wide barriers
(provider and consumer side) to providing high quality health
care and create/ find workable solutions.
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Create community initiatives
based on research outcomes
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2006 Minority Health Symposium
(focus: diabetes)
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Develop outreach and education
projects that promote creative thinking and skill
development
Council
Byron Grimmett, Chair, Physicians
Reach Out
bgrimmett@cacheinc.org
Tina Hunt, Secretary, Metrolina
Native American Assoc.
thunt@cacheinc.org
Nazanin Rostam-Abadi
Jerome Williams, Jr., MD, Mid
Carolina Cardiology
jwilliams@cacheinc.org
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