RE: Provider's Guide to Quality and Culture

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Adolfo- thank you for alerting us to this resource. i just reviewed the

entire site and it's great. i will be incorporating some of this in some

trainings i am doing for my son's middle school. the school has a very

international population because it serves students whose families are

visiting scholars to the university of texas. again, thank you. del

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Mata, Adolfo [mailto:amata@...]

> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 8:40 AM

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> Subject: RE: [ ] Provider's Guide to Quality and

> Culture

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> FYI

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> Dear Colleagues:

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> We are pleased to announce some major enhancements to The Provider's Guide

> to Quality and Culture. Enhancements include: (1) full-color photographs,

> (2) improved navigation and visual appeal, (3) enhanced information on 5

> major cultural groups in the US with pertinent links to related

> information

> in other parts of the site, (4) excerpts from selected chapters of the 10

> volume Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA),

> Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the United States

> Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Office of Minority Health

> (OMH) cultural competence monograph series presented in short

> pieces of text

> for easy on-screen reading with full references for all of the

> material, (5)

> additional resources and links and (6) a fully-functional search

> engine. In

> essence, the amount of information contained in the Guide has

> doubled since

> its release in June.

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> The Guide is emerging as the " one stop shopping resource " in the United

> States for health professionals seeking resources on cultural

> issues within

> the context of quality of care. The Guide emerged out of the

> Quality Center

> of the Bureau of Primary Health Care at the Health Resources and Services

> Administration which perceives cultural competence as a major quality of

> care issue. The Guide responds to 4 of the 6 national aims articulated by

> the National Institute of Medicine's (IOM) Crossing the Quality

> Chasm report

> (Safety, Effectiveness, Patient-centeredness and Equity).

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> The Provider's Guide was developed by Management Sciences for Health, a

> nonprofit organization dedicated to the improvement of global health. HRSA

> and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have

> recently signed an interagency agreement to add, in FY 2002, streaming

> videos (with CD-ROM support) portraying clinical case scenarios of

> culturally appropriate patient encounters. We look forward to

> your comments

> on all of the above, and on the site as a whole.

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> To access The Provider's Guide to Quality and Culture, go to

> http://erc.msh.org/quality & culture.

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> Leonard G. Epstein, M.S.W.

> Senior Advisor on Quality and Culture

> The Quality Center

> Bureau of Primary Health Care/HRSA

> 4350 East-West Highway, 11-9C2

> Bethesda, MD 20814

> v (301) 594-3803

> f (301) 594-5224

> lepstein@...

> http://bphc.hrsa.gov/quality

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