Hi. We’re Sherry Campanelli, Program Compliance Manager and Laura Newhall, Clinical Training Coordinator, from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Disability Evaluation Services (DES). Although DES conducts evaluations regarding whether an applicant for public benefits can be found disabled, evaluation as a research endeavor is not our primary focus. Nevertheless, as an organization, we are …
Hello, we are Linda Cabral and Jillian Richard-Daniels from the Center for Health Policy and Research at University of Massachusetts Medical School. Collecting and reporting data on a set of predefined measures is something that many evaluators are asked to do. This typically quantitative process involves gathering data, often from multiple sources and stakeholders, to …
I’m Lisle Hites, Director of the Evaluation and Assessment Unit (EAU) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). I’m writing to share my team’s experiences in conducting needs assessments. We frequently have opportunities to work with our colleagues on campus to conduct needs assessments for grant-funded projects. One such example was a training grant …
Hi. We’re Judy Savageau and Kathy Muhr from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. Within our Research and Evaluation Unit, we work on a number of projects using qualitative and quantitative methods as well as primary and secondary data sources. We’ve come to appreciate that different types of data …
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I am Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo, a private consultant on health services research. A few years ago, I was part of an exploratory study of Latino caregivers in the Boston area caring for a family member suffering Alzheimer’s disease. Difficulties facing those families coping with the disease have promoted the rise of support groups for diverse population …
Hi, we are Monika Mitra and Lauren Smith from the Disability, Health, and Employment Policy unit in the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Our research is focused on health disparities between people with and without disabilities. Evaluating a Population of People with Disabilities In collaboration with the …
Hi, we are Ann Lawthers, Sai Cherala, and Judy Steinberg, UMMS PCMHI Evaluation Team members from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. Today’s blog title sounds obvious, doesn’t it? Your definition of success influences your findings. Today we talk about stakeholder perspectives on success and how evaluator decisions about …
Greetings. I am Christine Johnson, the Director of Transformation and Quality Improvement for the Patient Centered Medical Home Initiative (PCMHI). I am from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. Today’s post shares how using self-assessment medical home transformation tools with primary care practices can help practices self-evaluate throughout the …
We are Linda Cabral and Laura Sefton from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research, and part of the PCMHI Evaluation Team whose work is being described all week. We want to share our team’s experience of being participant observers at ‘learning sessions’ and how it’s helped our overall multi-modal …
Hello. We are Valerie Konar, Carla Hillerns, and Michelle Landry from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. Today, we share lessons learned from our evaluation work for the MA Patient Centered Medical Home Initiative. The strength of many evaluation designs includes the use of a rigorous control group. However, …
