AGENCY TESTIMONY
Progress in the first year of Healthy NYC
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Dr. Morse highlights the significant progress made in the first year of the Healthy NYC initiative, focusing on partnerships, strategy development, and planned collaboratives.
- Launched the Healthy NYC partner program to engage diverse stakeholders
- Developed 7 strategy maps aligned with health equity goals
- Announced partnership with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- Planned three improvement collaboratives focusing on behavioral health, preventive health, and maternal mortality, set to launch in spring 2025
Michelle Morse
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We're determined to create and implement targeted health interventions that address the centuries of disinvestment responsible for inequitable health outcomes.
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In our 1st year, we have made remarkable progress.
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We launched our Healthy NYC partner program to bring in a diverse set of stakeholders from clinical care, academia, and the private sector.
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Healthy NYC partners formally join our cause for healthier, longer lives.
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They help publicize our campaign, contribute to 1 or more of the goals in the work, and lend their resources to these efforts.
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We also developed 7 strategy maps to align with each of our health equity New York City goals.
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Our strategy maps identify the most effective health interventions for each mortality driver and name the stakeholders, including health care systems, policy makers, and community based organizations that are best positioned to carry out those interventions.
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They serve as a guide both for the health department and our broader network of partners as we continue to work towards our goals.
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The strategy maps complement topic specific plans and reports that the health department has issued in recent years that outline strategies and recommendations.
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These reports include care community action, a mental health plan for New York City released in 2023, the maternal mortality review committee's report on pregnancy associated mortality in New York for the years 2016 to 2020, which was released in September of this year, and a forthcoming report on chronic disease that we plan to issue in early 2025.
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Lastly, we've announced our partnership with the Institute For Healthcare Improvement to launch 3 improvement collaboratives over the next 2 years.
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These improvement collaboratives will focus on behavioral health, preventive health, and maternal mortality.
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Each one will bring together relevant stakeholders to create and implement a path forward for better health outcomes in their area of focus.
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While we're currently planning, in the planning stage of these work of this work, the collaboratives will launch in the spring of 2025.
