Thursday, February 17, 2005

Disparities Toolkit The Health Research and Educational Trust "with its partners, is pleased to present this toolkit for collecting race, ethnicity, and primary language information in health care organizations. It is designed to help hospitals, health systems, community health centers, health plans, and other potential users in understanding the importance of accurate data collection, assessing organizational capacity to do so, and implementing a framework designed specifically for obtaining information from patients/enrollees about their race, ethnicity, and primary (preferred) language efficiently, effectively, and respectfully."  
  

El Pasoans urge lawmakers to boost mental-health funding (Texas) El Paso Times story - "... About 1,200 Texans made the Capitol rounds, urging lawmakers to restore about $31 million in cuts to services they made two years ago and to address the waiting list for community-based services that hovers around 50,000. "