Online Program

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Mobile Clinic Quality Assessment Evaluation


Tuesday, November 3, 2015 : 10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Caterina Hill, MSc, Research Associate in Social Medicine Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
The Public Health Quality Check-Up tool was created to allow mobile clinics and other frontline organizations to learn about public health quality, and to identify their public health quality strengths and areas for improvement.  It was developed by the Harvard School of Medicine Mobile Health Map Team in partnership with mobile clinic programs, quality experts, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Public Health Quality Check-up tool was piloted with 70 mobile clinic programs. The sample included those that described themselves as federally qualified health centers, hospital systems, universities, non-profits, faith based programs and other.  These programs represent a broad range of frontline health programs and have received funding from HRSA (Bureau of Health Workforce, Bureau of Primary Healthcare, HIV/AIDS Bureau and Office of Women's Health), and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). This presentation will report on key findings from the research.

Learning Areas:

Administration, management, leadership
Program planning
Public health administration or related administration
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Describe how the 9 Public Health Aims for Quality were used to improve quality in mobile health clinics

Keyword(s): Community Health Assessment, Quality Improvement

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am considered the national expert on quality for mobile health clinics
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.