Press Releases
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Frontline Caregivers, National Healthcare Providers Unveil What's Working in the Battle Against Chronic Disease
April 07, 2008
Nurses, doctors and health care workers joined CEO's from a nationally renowned group of health care providers in sharing nearly a dozen pioneering programs that contain costs while improving the quality of chronic care at a summit hosted today by the Partnership for Quality Care (PQC).
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Leading Minnesota Healthcare Organization Joins National Health Care Reform Partnership
March 04, 2008
The Partnership for Quality Care, a unique coalition that brings together some of the nation's largest and most innovative health care providers and labor unions to press for the reform and improvement of our health care system, announced today that HealthPartners of Minnesota will join its efforts to secure guaranteed, high quality, affordable health care for every American.
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PQC Statement on Healthcare Costs
February 26, 2008
The report issued today by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on projected health expenditures contains critically important macroeconomic data for anyone concerned about the long-term affordability of high quality health care in the United States.
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Statement on the House of Representatives Vote to Override Presidential Veto of SCHIP
October 18, 2007
The Partnership for Quality Care is disappointed to see that the House's worthy attempt to override the veto of a bill to strengthen SCHIP and cover 10 million low-income children narrowly missed its goal.
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Powerful Healthcare Partnership Launches Television Ad Buy
September 17, 2007
The Partnership for Quality Care (PQC), a unique labor/management coalition of America's health providers and caregivers, today launched a television ad campaign calling for a renewal of and increased funding for the hugely successful State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to cover millions more uninsured children.
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Statement from the Partnership for Quality Care on the Census Bureau Report
August 28, 2007
The U.S. Census Bureau report released today contains truly sobering data on the number of Americans without health insurance.
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Unique Labor-Management Partnership Joins 25 Organizations
July 25, 2007
Dennis Rivera, Chair of the Partnership for Quality Care (PQC), a unique labor/management coalition of America's health providers and caregivers, today stood with more than twenty-five organizations to support the reauthorization and expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
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Seven-Figure Nationwide Television Ad Buy
July 18, 2007
The PQC ads-- which are airing across the nation-- encourage House Members to take leadership on increasing the tobacco tax to fund children's health.
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Partnership for Quality Care Launches Campaign to Support Children's Health Insurance and Decrease Tobacco Use
July 10, 2007
The PQC's print ad displays a hand holding a "winning prescription" for Congress: to insure more children through the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) by raising the tax on cigarettes.
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Partnership for Quality Care, Congressmembers Crowley, Nadler, Engel & Healthcare Advocates Call for Increase in State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
May 31, 2007
Surrounded by dozens of children, Congressmembers Joe Crowley, Jerrold Nadler and Eliot Engel today joined Greater New York Hospital Association President Ken Raske and 1199/SEIU incoming President George Gresham, (both of whom were also representing the new national coalition the Partnership for Quality Care), Montefiore Medical Center's Sr. Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Steven M. Safyer and health advocates at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore to support fully funding the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
