Western New York
Until recently, debates over health disparities were bounded by what’s been called an individual, bio-medical model that focuses almost exclusively on the roles of health care, medical technologies, and individual behaviors in shaping health outcomes. The social determinants of health equity framework offers a model for understanding health inequities. The social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, including the health system. This framework understands political and economic structures that offer advantages to some and...
Sometimes perfect compliance on a quality measure is only as far away as a store-bought shower caddy and a bit of MacGyver ingenuity. That’s how an Erie County Medical Center unit lifted nurse compliance with its IV-tube labeling measure out of the 20 percent to 30 percent range to 100 percent.
Western New York's "Healthy Start, Health Future for All" Population Health Project (PHP) was featured in a news article on work being done at a Elementary School 7 in Dunkirk, NY to improve the diet and exercise routine of students. At Dunkirk and 9 other schools in the region the Rural Health Network, a PHP partner organization, is implementing its Fit & Fun program that includes a variety of student and community engagement strategies to achieve project goals. See the article link for more information on their progress and early successes.
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The Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative in Western New York is led by the P² Collaborative of Western New York, Inc. (P² Collaborative). The mission of this nonprofit organization is to improve the health of people in WNY by empowering patients to maintain healthy lifestyles, ensuring access to the highest quality of care, and promoting the implementation of proven practices in medicine. Incorporated in 2002, the P² Collaborative facilitates the development of a community-wide standard for the promotion of wellness and initiates dialogue with government leadership to promote policy change. The organization includes a diverse board of directors that represents the three major health plans in the area, health care providers, consumer advocates, businesses, labor organizations, the media, faith-based organizations, the education community and a university medical school.
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