Quality Update Fall 2009

Stratis Health publishes the Quality Update Newsletter twice a year. The electronic publication is an update on healthcare quality topics and issues for Minnesota's health care leaders. In this publication we aim to provide Minnesota "thought leaders" with news, issues, and perspectives on health care quality and patient safety.

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Building a Reformed Health System that Emphasizes Quality

From Jennifer P. Lundblad, Stratis Health President and CEO.

Why Culture Matters for a Healthier Minnesota
Making better connections with multicultural health plan members and patients. Perspective from Stratis Health Board of Directors member Nancy J. Feldman. president and CEO of UCare.

Advance Care Planning
Getting patients ready to have “The Talk” about end-of-life choices, as advance care planning moves forward in Minnesota.

Quality Care for Changing Communities
Health care organizations are heading in different directions with cultural competence depending on their strengths and assets. Several health care leaders share their efforts.

Culture Care Connection

New online learning and resource center to help Minnesota health care providers offer culturally and linguistically appropriate care.

Expanding Rural Palliative Care Nationally

Stratis Health provided technical assistance to three rural communities, during a six month pilot project funded by the National Rural Health Association.

HIT Regional Extension Center
Regional Centers are being developed through stimulus dollars. Key Health Alliance—a partnership of Stratis Health, the Rural Health Resource Center, and The College of St. Scholastica—has submitted a proposal to serve as the Regional Center in Minnesota and North Dakota.

Looking at the numbers: providers assess themselves against CLAS standards

Project results of clinics meeting or exceeding the 14 national Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) standards.

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