CMS Framework for Healthy Communities
CMS Framework for Healthy Communities
CMS Framework for Healthy Communities
CMS released an updated framework to further advance health care delivery and improve health outcomes for the more than 170 million individuals supported by CMS programs.
The Five Priorities for Improving the Health of America’s Communities
These priorities will inform CMS’s efforts as to how the Agency may operationalize its work to address differences and close gaps in health outcomes. Each priority area reflects a key area in which CMS stakeholders expressed that CMS action is needed and critical to advancing optimal health.
Priority 1: Expand the Collection, Reporting, and Analysis of Standardized Data
CMS strives to improve our collection and use of comprehensive, interoperable, standardized individual-level demographic and social determinants of health (SDOH) data.
Priority 2: Assess Opportunities to Close Gaps in CMS Programs, Policies, and Operations
Moving beyond observation and into action, CMS is assessing our programs for alignment and making concrete, actionable decisions about our programs, investments, and resource allocation to ensure all Americans can achieve their highest level of health.
Priority 3: Build Capacity of Health Care Organizations and the Workforce
CMS supports health care providers, plans, and other organizations who ensure individuals and families receive the highest quality care and services.
Priority 4: Promote Language Access, Health Literacy, and the Provision of Person-Centered Services
CMS must ensure that all individuals we serve, including members of communities that are underserved, can equitably access all CMS benefits, services and other supports, and coverage. Language access, health literacy, and the provision of culturally tailored services play a critical role in health care quality, patient safety and experience, and can impact health outcomes. CMS has opportunities across our operations, direct communication and outreach to enrollees and consumers, and guidance to plans, providers, and other partners to improve health care quality, patient safety, and the experience individuals have within the health care system.
Priority 5: Increase Access to Health Care Services for Individuals Living With a Disability
Individuals and families with a disability need to be able to get health care services when and where they need them.
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