Q: How important is it to check the QAPI and QAA guidance updates in the State Operations Manual? A: If you haven’t checked it lately, now is a good time to look. Refer to text in RED indicating ...

Health equity means ensuring everyone has the chance to be as healthy as possible. However, factors outside of a person’s control can prevent them from achieving their best health. Examples of these ...

Health equity and health equality both aim to improve outcomes and increase access to services, especially for underserved populations and marginalized groups. Equity and equality in healthcare are ...

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Colleen Murphy is a senior editor at Health. She has extensive experience with interviewing healthcare providers, deciphering medical research, and writing and editing health articles in an ...

Editor’s Note (12/21/21): This article is being showcased in a special collection about equity in health care that was made possible by the support of Takeda Pharmaceuticals. The article was published ...

Anyone with an interest in quality nursing home care should agree on one thing: The moment for Quality Assurance/Performance Improvement (QAPI) is now! A couple of years ago, a nursing home ...

We suggest that there are four types of health equity performance measures: data infrastructure, process and outcome measures stratified by subpopulation, process and outcomes measures targeted at ...