HRSA award recognizes Family Health Centers at NYU Langone for maternal and child care improvement

The Household Well being Facilities at NYU Langone has earned nationwide recognition from the Well being Sources and Providers Administration (HRSA) for high quality enchancment achievements in maternal and youngster healthcare. The newly created Nationwide High quality Chief gold degree award was bestowed to only one % of the greater than 1,300 HRSA-supported, Federally Certified Well being Facilities throughout the nation, and the Household Well being Facilities at NYU Langone is 1 of solely 2 facilities amongst 63 in New York State to obtain this distinction.

We created clear and constant medical pathways for managing wellness and prevention, in addition to for power sickness and acute care to spur enhancements throughout the board. One spotlight of this course of: Guaranteeing we ship high-quality prenatal care has made a optimistic impression on sufferers and their youngsters and can in the end enhance our group’s well being total.”

Isaac P. Dapkins, MD, Chief Medical Info Officer, Household Well being Facilities, NYU Langone

Maternal and youngster high quality care enhancements

The HRSA award acknowledges the Household Well being Facilities at NYU Langone for increasing affected person entry for all providers, elevating the extent of care, and for its efficient use of information and digital know-how, in addition to for medical care total.

The gold award for maternal and youngster care enchancment displays collaborative efforts amongst Dr. Dapkins, Meleen Chuang, MD, director of ladies’s well being, and Paolo R. Pina, MD, MPH, director of pediatrics on the Household Well being Facilities at NYU Langone. Because of this, in 2022, the Household Well being Facilities at NYU Langone elevated prenatal visits, resulting in greater delivery weights, and reached and sustained excessive ranges of childhood immunizations.

“The robust participation within the Household Well being Facilities at NYU Langone’s youngster immunization program is very necessary at a time when vaccine hesitancy is a problem and new and previous illnesses are threatening youngsters’s well being,” Dr. Dapkins notes.

“Our clinicians and workers work extremely laborious not simply to attain high-quality requirements, however to repeatedly enhance and improve the care we offer,” says Larry Okay. McReynolds, govt director of the Household Well being Facilities at NYU Langone. “This nationwide accolade in maternal and youngster well being is very significant as a result of it focuses on a core service that’s so very important to the tons of of younger households we serve in and across the Sundown Park space.”

The group on the Household Well being Facilities at NYU Langone gives high-quality care to underserved sufferers in low-income communities which are house to many immigrants, reminiscent of Sundown Park, Brooklyn, the place most residents are Latinx and Chinese language with restricted English language expertise. Many are additionally adversely impacted by different social determinants of well being, reminiscent of insufficient housing, low-paying jobs, and subpar digital expertise. The Household Well being Facilities at NYU Langone is dedicated to decreasing these well being disparities, and gives a variety of applications, together with major care, dental care, rehabilitation drugs, and behavioral well being providers.

Accolades for dedication to group well being

As well as, for the sixth consecutive 12 months, the Household Well being Facilities at NYU Langone earned silver-level Neighborhood Well being High quality Recognition (CHQR) badges bestowed by HRSA for assembly high quality benchmarks in three classes regarding entry, advancing well being data know-how for high quality, and total providers. The Household Well being Facilities at NYU Langone scored within the prime 10 to twenty % on these established medical high quality measures taken yearly.

HRSA, primarily based in Washington, DC, oversees the nation’s Federally Certified Well being Facilities. Its 2022 CHQR badges acknowledge well being facilities which have made notable high quality enchancment achievements within the areas of entry, high quality, well being fairness, well being data know-how, and COVID-19 public well being emergency response.