New Findings Reported from California State University Sacramento Describe Advances in Quality of Care (A Quality Strategy To Advance the Triple Aim In California’s Medicaid Program)

2020 SEP 30 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators publish new report on Health and Medicine - Quality of Care. According to news reporting originating from Sacramento, California, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) administers the nation’s largest Medicaid program. In 2012, DHCS developed a Quality Strategy modeled after the National Quality Strategy to guide the Department’s activities aimed at advancing the Triple Aim.”

Financial support for this research came from California Department of Health Care Services.

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from California State University Sacramento, “The Triple Aim seeks to improve the patient experience of care and the health of populations as well as reduce the per capita cost of health care. An academic team was contracted to assist DHCS in developing the strategy, which also was informed by extensive stakeholder input, an advisory committee, and a comprehensive inventory of DHCS quality improvement (QI) activities. From 2012 to 2018, the strategy included 129 unique QI activities. Most activities were intended to deliver more effective, efficient, affordable care or to advance disease prevention.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “This qualitative assessment of the DHCS Quality Strategy provides insights that may inform other Medicaid programs or large health systems as they develop quality strategies.”

For more information on this research see: A Quality Strategy To Advance the Triple Aim In California’s Medicaid Program. American Journal of Medical Quality, 2020;35(3):213-221. American Journal of Medical Quality can be contacted at: Sage Publications Inc, 2455 Teller Rd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, USA. (Sage Publications - http://www.sagepub.com/; American Journal of Medical Quality - ajm.sagepub.com)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Desiree R. Backman, California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, CA 95819, United States. Additional authors for this research include Orion T. Stewart, Rachel L. Barrington, Kenneth W. Kizer and Neal D. Kohatsu.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1177/1062860619860251. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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