HRET: A Leader in Researching and Developing Innovative Practices to Eliminate Disparities in Health Care

2001-2002

Hospital Consortium for Eliminating Disparities in Health Care: Developing and Testing a Uniform Framework for Collecting Race, Ethnicity, and Primary Language Data in Hospitals, Phase 1 | HRET research project | Funder: The Commonwealth Fund

 

2002-2004

Developing a Uniform Framework for Collecting Race, Ethnicity, and Primary Language Data, Phase 2 | HRET research project | Funder: The Commonwealth Fund

 

2003

Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, Institute of Medicine, Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health

 

2003

National Healthcare Disparities Report and National Healthcare Quality Report (first issues), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

 

2004

"Who, When, and How: The Current State of Race, Ethnicity, and Primary Language Data Collection in Hospitals" by Romana Hasnain-Wynia, Debra Pierce, and Mary Pittman, from HRET, and The Commonwealth Fund

 

2004-2006

Linking Race and Ethnicity Data with Inpatient Quality of Care Measures | HRET research project | Funder: The Commonwealth Fund

 

2005-2006

Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care | National Program Office: George Washington University; Senior Advisor and Lead Technical Assistance: HRET | Funder: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

 

2005-2006

Study on Hospital Language Services | HRET and NHeLP research project | Funder: The California Endowment

 

2005-2007

A Partnership to Advance Integrating Patient Demographic Data with National Clinical Performance Measures | Funder: The Commonwealth Fund

 

2005-2007

Patient-Centered Communication | HRET and AMA research project | Funders: The Commonwealth Fund and the California Endowment

 

2005-2007

Hospitals, Language, and Culture: A Snapshot of the Nation | HRET serves as senior advisor to JCAHO research project | Funder: the California Endowment

 

2005-2007

Improving Data Collection of Patients' Race, Ethnicity, and Language in California | HRET research project | Funder: the California Endowment

 

2006

Hospital Language Services for Patients with Limited English Proficiency: Results from a National Survey, by Romana Hasnain-Wynia, et al., from HRET

 

2007-2008

Improving Medicare Hospital Performance Measures and Payment Methods | HRET research project | Funders: The Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

 

2007-2009

Examining the Quality and Efficiency of Care in U.S. Safety Net Hospitals | HRET research project | Funder: The Commonwealth Fund

 

2009

National Quality Forum endorses the HRET Disparities Toolkit as a recommended practice

 

2009 HRET Survey on Current Use of the Disparities Toolkit