Room for Improvement: Where Does Ohio's Health Care Quality Rank?
The Scorecard on State Health System Performance
July 31, 2007

Created by the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System, the Scorecard on State Health System Performance is the first-ever comprehensive means of comparing the status of population health and quality of health care systems across the states.

How does the Ohio health care system compare to other states in the U.S. on key dimensions including healthy lives, access to care, quality, efficiency, and equality?

What are our strengths, and what opportunities are there for improvement?

Speaker:

• Anne Gauthier, Senior Policy Director, The Commonwealth Fund
  
  
  

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Publications released in conjunction with this forum:

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

Biography:

Anne K. Gauthier is senior policy director of the Fund's Commission on a High Performance Health System, based at AcademyHealth in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the Fund in May 2005, she was vice president of AcademyHealth where she served as: program director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization initiative, a program that bridges the health policy and health services research communities through grantmaking, convening, and the distribution of useable and timely information; senior advisor for the Foundation's State Coverage Initiative, which works with states to plan, execute and maintain insurance expansions; and a co-project director for a Fund project on administrative simplification in health care. Before joining AcademyHealth in 1989, she was senior researcher for the National Leadership Commission on Health Care, a private commission charged with developing a system-wide public/private strategy to control rising costs, improve the quality, appropriateness, and efficiency of care, and ensure universal access to a basic level of services. She held a position in the congressional Office of Technology Assessment from 1980 to 1986. Ms. Gauthier holds an A.B. in molecular biology from Princeton University and an M.S. in health administration from the University of Massachusetts School of Public Health.