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Room for Improvement: Where Does Ohio’s Health Care Quality Rank? provides an evaluation of Ohio's health care system performance. For more information on the forum associated with this publication, please go here.

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Room for Improvement:
Where Does Ohio’s Health Care Quality Rank?


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Room for Improvement: Where Does Ohio’s Health Care Quality Rank? features results from the Commonwealth Fund’s State Scorecard on Health System Performance. In September 2006, the Commonwealth Fund released the National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance. The National Scorecard assesses how well the U.S. is performing across key areas of health care relative to achievable benchmarks. It also points to deficient areas where public and private action is needed — and provides a yardstick against which to measure the success of new policies. Recognizing the influence of state policy on health care system performance, the Commonwealth Fund recently released Aiming Higher: Results from a State Scorecard on Health System Performance, which offers a framework to evaluate state health care system performance across five dimensions: access, quality, avoidable hospital use and costs, equity, and healthy lives.

In order to help disseminate this infortmation, the Health Policy Institute of Ohio adapted the Ohio-specific aspects of this health care system evaluation for release in this state.
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