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Medicaid and CHIP Children's Healthcare Quality Measures: What States Use and What They Want
Charting Chip | Medicaid | Quality oversight

This article, written by NASHP Managing Director Catherine Hess and former NASHP Program Director Sarah deLone, draws from responses to NASHP’s Charting CHIP IV survey, supported by the David and Lucile Packard...

Sarah deLone
Catherine Hess, Managing Director for Coverage and Access
May 2011
State Strategies to Improve Quality and Efficiency: Making the Most of Opportunities in National Health Reform
National Health Care Reform | Service delivery | System performance

There is an acknowledged need for extensive reform to the health care delivery system in the United States. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act offers unprecedented opportunities to transform care delivery, with numerous provisions that support systemic improvements. States have an imperative to greatly improve system...

Jill Rosenthal, Program Director
Anne Gauthier, Senior Program Director
December 2010
Enhancing Clinical Information in Statewide Hospital Administrative Data: Project Summary and Lessons Learned
Event Data | Measurement | System performance
This report, developed by Thomson Reuters and NASHP, is based on lessons from the AHRQ-sponsored Adding Clinical Data project, which awarded Pilot or Planning contracts to the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Partner organizations in Florida, Minnesota, Virginia, and Washington to explore feasible, practical solutions to adding...
Jill Rosenthal, Program Director
Carrie Hanlon, Program Manager
January 2010
State Partnerships to Improve Quality: Models and Practices from Leading States Issue Brief
Collaboration | Partnerships | Quality oversight
The National Academy for State Health Policy identified ten leading state quality improvement partnerships – interrelated broad-based partnerships, mostly with public and private sector representation, which have long-term, statewide, systemic quality improvement strategic intent, and transparent agendas.  This State Health Policy...
Jill Rosenthal, Program Director
Carrie Hanlon, Program Manager
July 2009
State Partnerships to Improve Quality: Models and Practices from Leading States Report
Collaboration | Partnerships | State roles
This NASHP-led, Commonwealth Fund-supported report highlights ten leading state quality improvement partnerships, broad-based, public-private partnerships that strive for long-term, statewide, and systemic quality improvement. This report describes the state partnerships' origins, internal processes, accomplishments, and lessons learned, as well...
Jill Rosenthal, Program Director
Carrie Hanlon, Program Manager
June 2009