Emerging Ideas

Engaging Emergent Strategies in Facilitating Multi-Stakeholder Health Equity Collaboration

By Vicki Quintana, MSPH, RN, and Kim Singletary, PhD Emergent Strategy can help multi-stakeholder teams foster relationships and creative spaces…

Advancing Health Equity in Medicaid: Emerging Value-Based Payment Innovations

By Diana Crumley JD MPAff, and Tricia McGinnis MPP MPH Health care disparities persist across the United States, despite growing…

Engaging Payers in Health Care Equity Interventions

By Susan Beane, MD Healthfirst is a provider of Medicaid Managed Care plans in downstate New York and, in concert…

Value-based Payment Policies Can Help Reduce Health Care Disparities—If We Do It Right

By Andrew C. Anderson As the health care system moves towards value-based payment, we need performance measures that can assess…

A County Holds Itself Accountable

By Robin Mullet Fostering a culture of equity across the entire Health and Human Services System is not just a…

Healthy Mom, Healthy Baby: Keys to a Successful Postpartum Care Delivery Reform Project

By Amy Balbierz, MPH Childbirth is the number one reason for hospital admissions in the United States. Postpartum care offers…

The NQF Roadmap for Promoting Health Equity and Eliminating Disparities: Diverse Voices Produced Strong Recommendations

By Marshall H. Chin, MD, MPH Today the National Quality Forum (NQF) published an important report entitled A Roadmap for…

Thank You for Asking…

By Jean Glossa, MD, MBA, Jeffrey Ring, PhD What do you get when you invite 15 to 20 diverse patients…

Going to Where the Kids Are: a Dental Payment and Delivery Reform Collaboration That’s Working for Providers and the Underserved

By Peter Milgrom, DDS, R. Mike Shirtcliff, DMD Dentistry, a cottage industry long after changes in medical care delivery systems,…

Ensuring the Best Intentions Hit the Mark

By Len M. Nichols, PhD People who work in safety net clinics deserve an extra dose of respect, for we…

Reimagining the Dental Team: Hygienists as key to reconnecting underserved patients with the dentist’s office

By Ashley Danielson, RDH, EPP As a dental hygienist, I used to work in a clinic, helping treat dental disease…

This Intervention Helps Underserved Women At Mount Sinai Hospital Access Needed Postpartum Care

By Elizabeth A. Howell, MD, MPP This post originally appeared on the Health Affairs blog. Pregnancy and childbirth can exacerbate…