To improve access to high quality, culturally and linguistically competent primary and preventive care for underserved, uninsured, and underinsured Americans.
A major goal in the United States is to eliminate health disparities for different minority populations, poor people, and women. Disparities lead to differences in deaths from heart disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes, as the four top killers, as well as other illnesses. To eliminate health disparities and improve functional and clinical outcomes, health care organizations must change the way they deliver care. The HRSA Health Disparities Collaboratives call for such a change -- a transformation in the delivery systems of care. The transformation affects how:
- providers such as doctors,
dentists, social workers, and nurses deliver care;
- patients understand and
participate in managing their own care; and
- communities learn to strengthen
the provider-patient partnership.
The HRSA Collaboratives strive to achieve excellence
in practice through the following goals:
- Generate and document improved health outcomes for underserved
populations;
- Transform clinical, financial, and operational practice through models of care, improvement and learning in the context of Community Oriented Primary Care;
- Develop infrastructure, expertise and multi-disciplinary leadership
to support and drive improved health status; and
- Build strategic partnerships.
As the Nation’s access agency, HRSA focuses on uninsured, underserved, and special needs populations in its goals and program activities. The HRSA Collaboratives align with all 7 goals:
Goal 1: Improve Access to Health Care
Goal 2: Improve Health Outcomes
Goal 3: Improve the Quality of Health Care
Goal 4: Eliminate Health Disparities
Goal 5: Improve the Public Health and Health Care Systems
Goal 6: Enhance the Ability of the Health Care System to Respond to Public Health Emergencies
Goal 7: Achieve Excellence in Management Practices
About HRSA: http://www.hrsa.gov/about/
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