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HEALTH IMPROVEMENT

Health Action Council is dedicated to using our resources to help achieve quality outcomes for our employer members and their employees. Through our foundation, Health Quality Forum, we collaborate with others in the community to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare, resulting in the enhanced health of the population.

Health Action Council participates in meetings and forums with regional coalitions and community partners to encourage a data-driven and value-based approach to purchasing healthcare benefits. We also advocate for employers by helping insurers, vendors, healthcare professionals and policy makers better align payment models, such as bundled and value-based payments, and health outcomes. Health Action Council facilitates projects that will transform the delivery of healthcare and benefit the community.

Resources to Help Employees Navigate Care

Health Action Council provides its members with information to help their employees work more effectively with physicians to improve their outcomes and quality of care. These include details on:

Preparing for a doctor visit
How to work with your doctor
Questions to ask
Avoiding unnecessary care
Where to get care (clinic vs. urgent care vs. ER)
Checking hospital scores before scheduling surgery

Other Resources:

2021-2022 Healthy Kids Campaign Toolkit

By increasing employees' understanding of their benefits and education on how that can support and improve a child's health, employers can achieve lower healthcare costs, increased productivity, improved employee retention rates, and a healthier workforce for tomorrow. Get 60 copy-and-paste messages and artwork to use on your intranet, social media sites, and internal newsletters to help employees understand the critical aspects of kids health.

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Find the Right Care

Our consumer-facing engagement site FindTheRightCare.org has helped lower the number of emergency department visits in target markets by 2.1 percent. The site gives users ways to learn about the different healthcare options and gain a better understanding of when to go your family doctor, urgent care, or the emergency room.

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Find the Right Care Communications Toolkit

With three easy steps your organization can share messages about how you can educate and understand all of your healthcare options to lead to a better quality of care and save you time and money.

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Healthy Kids

Health Action Council and the Ohio High School Athletic Association joined forces to engage students and their families, school leaders, teachers, coaches and communities in promoting improved health and wellness. Our goal is to encourage childhood preventable disease vaccinations, increase annual well-child visits, keep kids active, and enhance health literacy.

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Healthy Kids Vaccine Toolkit

Encouraging your employees to immunize their children sounds like a hard thing to do, however, it does not have to be. By implementing this immunization toolkit and following the four main steps below, you will provide your employees with clinically approved data, which will allow them to make the right choice when it comes to their child's health.

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Step It Up Challenge

Teams compete for the highest cumulative daily average steps over the two-week challenge. The team with the highest average number of daily steps will win a healthy lunch for their team valued at up to $500 AND have a $500 donation provided in their name to either a local Ronald McDonald House or school garden project of their choosing. This Challenge is open to all Health Action Council Members, Supporters, Sponsors, Community Partners and Friends.

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The Leapfrog Group

Health Action Council continues its role as a coordinator for the Leapfrog Group, reaching out to Ohio, Minnesota and Oregon hospitals and health systems to encourage them to participate in the annual Leapfrog Survey and enlist their support of Leapfrog’s broader quality-related goals. For 20 years, The Leapfrog Group has been collecting data on the safety and quality of inpatient hospital care through the annual Leapfrog Hospital Survey. In 2019, they expanded into outpatient care with the launch of the Leapfrog Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Survey. Over 2,100 hospitals and nearly 400 ASCs voluntarily demonstrated their commitment to transparency by reporting the data in 2019 that purchasers and consumers need to choose the best facility for their care.

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Cleveland, OH 44131 216.328.2200 [email protected]