Hospital Equity Measures Advisory Committee

Overview

The Advisory Committee will be comprised of health care stakeholder experts, including a health care quality and measurement expert, and will:

  1. Make recommendation to assist and advise the HCAI director on the appropriate measures that hospitals are required to report in their annual equity reports. These measures should also align with the health equity measures developed by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and include any relevant Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Quality Indicators. Once finalized the recommendations will be published on the HCAI website.
  2. Advise the HCAI director in identifying the 10 widest disparities in health care quality for vulnerable populations, in terms of access or outcome and priority performance areas to be addressed in the health equity plan that hospitals are required to include in their annual equity reports. The committee will also provide recommendations on the measurable objectives and specific timeframes in which disparities for vulnerable populations identified in the data need to be addressed
  3. Once reports have been submitted, the Advisory Committee will need to make recommendations to the department regarding the submitted hospitals’ health equity plans.  Once finalized these recommendations will be published on the HCAI website.
  4. Through its meetings, provide a forum for stakeholder and public engagement.

Advisory Committee Recommendations

December 2022 Hospital Equity Measures Recommendations

Follow the hyperlink to review the 2022 Advisory Committee Hospital Equity Measures Recommendations

Hospital Equity Measures Advisory Committee Members

Committee Members

Dr. Amy Adome
Senior Vice President of Clinical Effectiveness, Sharp Healthcare

Representing Private Hospitals and Health Systems 

Joan Allen
Governmental Relations Advocate, Service Employees International Union

Representing Organized Labor

Dr. Ash Amarnath
Chief Medical Officer, California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems

Representing Public Hospitals and Health Systems 

Dannie Ceseña
MPH, Director, California LGBTQ Services Network

Representing the LGBTQ Community

Denny Chan
Directing Attorney, Justice In Aging

Representing Consumers

Elia Gallardo
JD, Chief Equity Officer, California Department of Health Care Access and Information

Departmental Representative

Dr. Neil Maizlish
Senior Data Advisor, Public Health Alliance of Southern California

Public and Community Health and Healthy Places Inde
x Expert

Cary Sanders
Senior Policy Director, California Pan-Ethnic Health Network

Representing Vulnerable Populations

Dr. Amy Sitapati
Clinical Professor, Division of Biomedical Informatics, University of California San Diego

Academic Health Care Quality and Measures Expert

Kristine Toppe
Assistant Vice President, National Committee for Quality Assurance
Public and Community Health Expert

Silvia Yee
Senior Staff Attorney, Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund

Representing People with Disabilities

State Partners

Providing technical subject matter expertise

Sarah Lahidji
Chief, Quality and Health Equity Division, California Department of Health Care Services

Nathan Nau
Deputy Director, California Department of Managed Health Care

Julie Nagasako
Deputy Director, California Department of Public Health

Peg Carpenter
Senior Equity and Quality Specialist, Covered California

Meeting Archive

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September 1, 2022

August 4, 2022

July 7, 2022

Contact

For questions or inquiries about the Hospital Equity Reporting Program, email hospitalequity@hcai.ca.gov.

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