UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of North Carolina Awarded NCQA Health Equity Accreditation
14 8월 2024 - 9:30PM
Business Wire
Health Equity Accreditation is awarded to
organizations committed to reducing disparities and improving
health outcomes
UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of North Carolina announced it
has been awarded Health Equity Accreditation by the National
Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). NCQA is a private,
nonprofit organization dedicated to improving health care
quality.
Health Equity Accreditation focuses on the foundation of health
equity work, which includes: building an internal culture that
supports the organization’s external health equity work; collecting
data that help the organization create and offer language services
and provider networks mindful of individuals’ cultural and
linguistic needs; and identifying opportunities to reduce health
inequities and improve care.
“We know to drive better outcomes for the people we have the
privilege of serving, we must understand and consciously address
the inequities that exist in the health care system,” said Anita
Bachmann, CEO, UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of North Carolina.
“This accreditation is a testament to our team’s commitment to
ensuring every individual in the state has access to high-quality
equitable care to help them live healthier lives.”
NCQA’s Health Equity Accreditation evaluates how well an
organization complies with standards in the following areas:
organizational readiness; race/ethnicity, language, gender identity
and sexual orientation; access and availability of language
services; practitioner network cultural responsiveness; culturally
and linguistically appropriate services programs; and reducing
health care disparities.
“Earning Health Equity Accreditation shows that an organization
is making a breakthrough in providing excellent health care to
diverse populations. I congratulate any organization that achieves
this level of distinction,” said NCQA President Margaret E. O’Kane.
“Eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care is
essential to improving the quality of care overall.”
In addition to being awarded NCQA Health Equity Accreditation,
UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of North Carolina also became the
first Medicaid managed care organization in the state to earn the
NCQA Health Plan Accreditation.
UnitedHealthcare serves more than 1.8 million people in North
Carolina enrolled in employer-sponsored, individual, Medicare and
Medicaid plans, with a network of 153 hospitals and more than
67,500 physicians and care providers statewide.
To learn more about UnitedHealthcare’s commitment to delivering
high-quality equitable care in North Carolina visit uhccs.com/NC.
For more information about NCQA, visit www.ncqa.org.
About NCQA
NCQA is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving
health care quality. NCQA accredits and certifies a wide range of
health care organizations. It also recognizes clinicians and
practices in key areas of performance. NCQA’s Healthcare
Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®) is the most widely
used performance measurement tool in health care. NCQA’s website
(ncqa.org) contains information to help consumers, employers and
others make more-informed health care choices. NCQA can be found
online at ncqa.org, on X @ncqa, on Facebook at
facebook.com/NCQA.org/ and on LinkedIn at
linkedin.com/company/ncqa.
About UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare is dedicated to helping people live healthier
lives and making the health system work better for everyone by
simplifying the health care experience, meeting consumer health and
wellness needs, and sustaining trusted relationships with care
providers. In the United States, UnitedHealthcare offers the full
spectrum of health benefit programs for individuals, employers, and
Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and contracts directly with
more than 1.7 million physicians and care professionals, and 7,000
hospitals and other care facilities nationwide. The company also
provides health benefits and delivers care to people through owned
and operated health care facilities in South America.
UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group, a
diversified health care company. For more information, visit
UnitedHealthcare at www.uhc.com or follow @UHC on LinkedIn.
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