Question

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Do you think the efforts by the various federal agencies of the DHHS (ie. AHRQ, CMS, HRSA, ONC, and FDA) to improve patient safety and quality are adequate? What steps can be taken to improve them?

Answer 1

The federal agencies of DHHS has taken many efforts to improve patient safety and quality.The findings shows out of 35 measures ,25 measures showed improvement but still it lacked improvement in certain aspects especially the services which were offered to low income groups and of different color were of low quality. Hence this area needs improvement because of this reason a patient cannot be deprived of good quality care by health care professionals. Some of the steps to improve them are

• Providing training which can develop a healthcare professionals to gain good cultural competency and diversity knowledge to handle patients
• Federal programs for healthcare providers to serve rural communities as a part of their career
• Government programs for low income population which can increase their standard of living and avoid discrimination