Will There be Future Reports? What Else Will be Included?

We expect to publish reports twice yearly, with our second report coming in fall 2008. Our reports will continue to highlight care and outcomes for the region’s patients with chronic conditions, disparities in our measures by insurance and other social indicators, and improvement.

Because this is our first Community Health Checkup, future reports will allow us to highlight improvements in our measures by comparison with this first report, and not simply achievement by comparison to nationally endorsed and locally vetted measures. In addition, as more practices are able to measure and report their care, we expect our reports to describe a larger part of the region’s residents. Finally, we will begin to measure and report selected aspects of our region’s hospitals’ achievement in the care and outcomes of patients with chronic health conditions, including patients’ experiences with their preparation for returning to the community following hospital discharge.