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Former BWH physician JudyAnn Bigby, MD, returned to Francis Street twice this month to deliver the season’s first Quality Rounds lecture and to celebrate Women in Medicine Month with the Office for Women’s Careers. Bigby, who now serves as secretary for the Executive Office of Health and Human Services of Massachusetts, informed BWHers about health care quality initiatives in Massachusetts and health care reform.
“Massachusetts is one of the healthiest states in the nation, but we still have things we can improve upon,” Bigby said to a capacity crowd in the Bornstein Amphitheater at Quality Rounds last week.
Bigby discussed in depth Mass. Health, the state’s Medicaid program, and a program that ties hospital rate increases to hospital adherence to certain quality standards. She also detailed at Quality Rounds several other programs of Mass. Health, as well as an initiative to report and reduce health care acquired infections. At the OWC event this week, Bigby discussed health care reform from the women’s health perspective.