The Disparities Leadership Program Request for Applications

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The Disparities Solutions Center is now accepting applications for the 2014-2015 Disparities Leadership Program (DLP), due February 14, 2014.

The Disparities Leadership Program (DLP) is our year-long, hands-on executive education program focused exclusively on helping health care leaders achieve equity in quality. The program is designed to help you translate the latest understanding of the problem of disparities into realistic solutions you can adopt within your organization.

Through the DLP, we aim to create leaders prepared to meet the challenges of health care transformation by improving quality for at-risk populations who experience disparities. The program has three main goals:

  • To arm health care leaders with a rich understanding of the causes of disparities and the vision to implement solutions and transform their organization deliver high-value health care. Solutions are specifically focused on identifying disparities impacting the quality and value of care within high-cost, high-risk areas such as preventing readmissions and avoidable hospitalizations; improving patient safety and experience; and excelling in population health.
  • To help leaders create strategic plans to advance their work in reducing disparities in a customized way, with practical benefits tailored to every organization.
  • To align the goals of health equity with health care reform and value-based purchasing. We support the organizational changes necessary to respond to national movements including health care reform, value-based purchasing, as well as exceeding quality standards and meeting regulations (such as those Joint Commission, the National Committee on Quality Assurance, and the National Quality Forum).

To read more about the Disparities Leadership Program (DLP), click the link below:
http://www2.massgeneral.org/disparitiessolutions/dlprogram_about.html

To read more about the evaluation we conducted of the DLP, including three case studies, click on the link below:
http://www2.massgeneral.org/disparitiessolutions/dlprogram_eval.html

For a list of previous DLP participating organizations, click on the link below:
http://www2.massgeneral.org/disparitiessolutions/dlprogram_participants.html

For a timeline of the application process and DLP year, click on the link below:
http://www2.massgeneral.org/disparitiessolutions/dlprogram_about.html#Application_Timeline

To download a Letter of Intent form and application, please click the link below:
http://www2.massgeneral.org/disparitiessolutions/z_files/2014-2015%20DLP%20LOI%20and%20Application.docx