Jonathan Small, Author at Massachusetts Health Quality Partners

Black, Asian and Hispanic Patients Report Lower Levels of Trust in Their Healthcare Providers Compared to White Patients

(January 2025)

MHQP’s Annual Statewide Patient Experience Survey Documents Disparities for Fourth Year in a Row

Patient-provider trust is widely viewed as a foundational element of quality patient care. Research shows that higher levels of trust are associated with patients’ willingness to seek treatment,^1,2 adherence to treatment recommendations,^3,4 and improved health outcomes.⁵ This dynamic

Black, Asian and Hispanic Patients Report Lower Levels of Trust in Their Healthcare Providers Compared to White PatientsJonathan Small2025-01-16T09:11:40-05:00

Looking Back at 2024: Shedding Light on Inequities in Care and Primary Care Instability

(January 2025)

2024 was an unsettling year, as Massachusetts health care experienced unprecedented access challenges, widespread clinician burnout, and other unanticipated disruptions. Through all the uncertainty and turmoil, MHQP continued to be a reliable source of data to help us all better understand patient experiences, an innovative force for transparency and

Looking Back at 2024: Shedding Light on Inequities in Care and Primary Care InstabilityJonathan Small2025-01-06T15:10:38-05:00

MHQP Receives PCORI Award to Help Address Mistrust in Healthcare within the Black Community

(August 2024)

MHQP is pleased to announce that we have received a funding award through the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award Program, an initiative of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, to identify new research directions to address mistrust in healthcare within the Black community. This work will be conducted in collaboration with team members from Boston Medical Center’s implementation

MHQP Receives PCORI Award to Help Address Mistrust in Healthcare within the Black CommunityJonathan Small2024-12-20T11:14:45-05:00

MHQP Helps Push for Primary Care Task Force Legislation

(July 2024)

In July, as the Massachusetts Legislature neared the end of its session, MHQP leaders helped push for draft legislation that would establish a Primary Care Task Force in Massachusetts. This Task Force would help lead the Commonwealth out of its current primary care crisis by studying primary care

MHQP Helps Push for Primary Care Task Force LegislationJonathan Small2024-08-12T11:51:04-04:00

MHQP Releases Biennial Clinical Quality Data for Primary Care Practices

(July 2024)

While some preventive care measures have rebounded, several have not returned to pre-pandemic levels.

Every two years, in partnership with the Center for Health Information Analysis (CHIA), MHQP collects clinical quality performance data from the state’s health plans for commercially insured patients in primary care practices across the Commonwealth.

MHQP Releases Biennial Clinical Quality Data for Primary Care PracticesJonathan Small2024-08-12T11:53:09-04:00

MHQP Welcomes Molly Totman, MPH, as Senior Director of Quality Initiatives

(June 2024)

“When you’re in healthcare, data is what moves the needle. Having quantitative or qualitative patient experience data as someone on the ground in healthcare and being able to go to your leadership and say, ‘Look how we’re performing,’ or ‘Look what this patient said about this experience,’ that kind

MHQP Welcomes Molly Totman, MPH, as Senior Director of Quality InitiativesJonathan Small2024-06-13T16:16:56-04:00

Boston Globe Editorial Calls for Action on the Primary Care Crisis in Massachusetts

(May 20, 2024)

MHQP is pleased to have made a significant contribution over the past few years to the growing awareness of the fragile state of primary care in Massachusetts. Last week, in collaboration with MHQP, the Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) released an updated dashboard to measure the health of primary care

Boston Globe Editorial Calls for Action on the Primary Care Crisis in MassachusettsJonathan Small2024-05-20T16:09:05-04:00

CHIA Releases Updated Dashboard to Measure the Health of the Primary Care System in Massachusetts

(May 2024)

The Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA), in collaboration with MHQP, today released the latest primary care dashboard to monitor the health of the primary care system in the Commonwealth.

A high-functioning primary care system can lead to better patient outcomes, lower costs, and more

CHIA Releases Updated Dashboard to Measure the Health of the Primary Care System in MassachusettsJonathan Small2024-05-23T10:11:21-04:00

Lessons from Steward and the Need for Primary Care Reform in Massachusetts

(May 2024)

Barbra Rabson and Katherine Gergen Barnett have collaborated again, this time on a commentary in Perspectives in Primary Care, published by the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care. The opinion piece, entitled “Lessons from Steward and the Need for Primary Care Reform in Massachusetts,” traces the roots of

Lessons from Steward and the Need for Primary Care Reform in MassachusettsJonathan Small2024-05-23T10:16:32-04:00

Media Coverage Spotlights Primary Care Access Problems Based on MHQP Data and Insights

(April 2024)

MHQP is pleased to have played a key role in providing data, insights and connections to help create several recently published prominent stories about the critical issue of primary care access in Massachusetts.

Please note that the Boston Globe articles are behind a paywall.

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Media Coverage Spotlights Primary Care Access Problems Based on MHQP Data and InsightsJonathan Small2024-09-16T13:33:54-04:00

About Jonathan Small

(July 2024)

While some preventive care measures have rebounded, several have not returned to pre-pandemic levels.

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