Press Releases
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Sen. Harry Reid, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis Join Healthcare Workers and Providers in Call for Reform: “Every Patient Matters”
September 23, 2009
Healthcare workers deliver thousands of messages written to Congress on scrub tops to urge affordable, comprehensive care this year.
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Partnership for Quality Care Fights Healthcare Disparities
July 01, 2009
The Partnership for Quality Care advanced its goals of decreasing racial and ethnic healthcare disparities by sponsoring a multi-state tour of Tony Award-winning actress Sarah Jones’ one-woman show “A Right to Care,” commissioned by the Kellogg Foundation to illustrate healthcare disparities. This tour was open to the public, free of charge, in venues organized by and promoted in collaboration with PQC partners.
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Statement from the Partnership for Quality Care Regarding President Obama’s Address to Congress
February 25, 2009
The 60 million health care workers and caregivers of the Partnership for Quality Care will work with the President and Congress to build a strong, sustainable health care system that will affordably provide the highest quality health care to everyone in America.
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Nation's Leading Health Care Providers and Unions to Share Solutions with Congressional Leaders for Health Care Crisis
November 05, 2008
As the national call to find a solution to America's broken healthcare system emerges as a key driver in yesterday's election of Barack Obama and a slate of Congressional seats, the nation's largest joint labor-management healthcare coalition released a report today on how they are tackling the most expensive problem in our nation's healthcare system: the escalating social, economic, and individual costs of treating and managing chronic disease.
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Statement from the Partnership for Quality Care Regarding Renewal of Massachusetts Medicaid Waiver
October 01, 2008
The Partnership for Quality Care applauds CMS and Governor Deval Patrick for their support of Massachusetts' landmark achievement in expanding health care coverage.
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Statement on the Census Bureau Report Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2007
August 26, 2008
The U.S. Census Bureau report released today included the encouraging news that the number of uninsured in the U.S. declined slightly in 2007 from 47 million to 45.7 million, but a deeper look at the trendlines shows much cause for concern.
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Frontline Caregivers, National Healthcare Providers Unveil What's Working in the Battle Against Chronic Disease
April 07, 2008
Nurses, doctors and health care workers joined CEO's from a nationally renowned group of health care providers in sharing nearly a dozen pioneering programs that contain costs while improving the quality of chronic care at a summit hosted today by the Partnership for Quality Care (PQC).
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Leading Minnesota Healthcare Organization Joins National Health Care Reform Partnership
March 04, 2008
The Partnership for Quality Care, a unique coalition that brings together some of the nation's largest and most innovative health care providers and labor unions to press for the reform and improvement of our health care system, announced today that HealthPartners of Minnesota will join its efforts to secure guaranteed, high quality, affordable health care for every American.
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PQC Statement on Healthcare Costs
February 26, 2008
The report issued today by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on projected health expenditures contains critically important macroeconomic data for anyone concerned about the long-term affordability of high quality health care in the United States.
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Statement on the House of Representatives Vote to Override Presidential Veto of SCHIP
October 18, 2007
The Partnership for Quality Care is disappointed to see that the House's worthy attempt to override the veto of a bill to strengthen SCHIP and cover 10 million low-income children narrowly missed its goal.
