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Health Affairs Online Briefing - The Care We Need: NQF and 20 Years of Quality

  • Date: Thursday, July 30, 2020
  • Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. (Eastern)
  • Place: Online details to come after you've registered

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CONTACT
Debbie Boylan
Phone: 301-347-3910
Email: dboylan@projecthope.org


In 1999, at the urging of President Clinton's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry, the National Quality Forum was formed to promote health care quality through measurement and public reporting.

Twenty years later, with America in the grips of COVID-19, the work of NQF continues and is more important than ever. A new report from the National Quality Task Force entitled, “The Care We Need: Driving Better Health Outcomes for People and Communities” provides a roadmap to consistent and predictable high-quality care for every person by 2030. The Task Force consists of nearly 100 leaders and diverse stakeholders from across the health care system.

At an online forum on July 30, Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil (who was a member of the Advisory Commission) will host leaders of the quality movement for a discussion of the report and its recommendations for improving the health and safety of all Americans.

Date: Date: Thursday, July 30, 2020
Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. (Eastern)
Place: Online details to come after you've registered

SPEAKERS TO INCLUDE

Shantanu Agrawal
President and CEO, National Quality Forum

Carolyn Clancy
Deputy Under Secretary for Discovery, Education and Affiliate Networks, Veterans Health Administration, US Department of Veterans Affairs; Former Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Kenneth W. Kizer
Chief Healthcare Transformation Officer and Senior Executive Vice President, Atlas Research; Founding President and CEO, National Quality Forum

Mary Wakefield
Visiting Distinguished Professor, Practice of Health Care, Georgetown University; Member, President Clinton's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry

Alan Weil
Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs


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