Health Care Quality

Whether you are insured or uninsured, the serious quality problems in the American health care system affect you. There are many excellent health care providers in America, yet there are too many preventable mistakes and too few efforts to coordinate patient care. Our Emergency Departments are over-burdened and inefficient and many Americans experience unequal health care outcomes because of race, ethnicity, and income.

Fundamental changes are needed in health care delivery in the United States. Indeed, efforts to improve the quality of patient care are central to reforming our struggling health system.

At this New America Foundation event, the panelists below discussed the various opportunities to improve the quality of patient care in the U.S. An MP3 recording can be downloaded below, as can the presentation slides from this discussion.

Participants

• Brent Asplin, MD, MPH
  Emergency Department Head
  Regions Hospital, St. Paul, MN

• Guy Clifton, MD
  Physician Advisor
  New America Foundation

• Debra L. Ness, MS
  President
  National Partnership for Women & Families

• Marsha Regenstein, PhD, MCP
  Associate Research Professor, Department of Health Policy
  George Washington University

Moderator

• Len Nichols, PhD
  Director, Health Policy Program
  New America Foundation