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NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 19: BenchMarks 2017 Event at the New York Public Library on October 19, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for BenchMarks)
WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 20: BenchMarks 2019 Event at the National Portrait Gallery - Smithsonian Institution on November 20, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
Governor Carney signed Executive Order #25 establishing health care spending and quality benchmarks during a Nov. 20 press conference in his Wilmington office. The Executive Order will form a subcommittee of the Delaware Economic and Financial Advisory Council to focus on reducing the cost of health care for Delaware families, taxpayers, and businesses. The subcommittee will advise DEFAC and other relevant state agencies on spending, and will work closely with the Delaware Health Care Commission (DHCC) on improving the quality of health care in Delaware.
“Delaware has consistently ranked among the highest-spending states for health care, but we have not traditionally been a leader in health care outcomes. That needs to change,” Governor John Carney. “This Executive Order reaffirms our commitment to lowering costs for Delaware families and improving the quality of care that Delawareans receive. We’ll do that, first and foremost, by improving transparency around the cost of health care services.”
In addition to setting the State’s health care spending benchmark for 2019 and beyond, the new subcommittee will consistently review its methodology and provide the public and interested stakeholders an opportunity to provide input and consider their recommendations.
This Executive Order also lays out quality benchmarks for the State for calendar years 2019 through 2021 for the Delaware Health Care Commission to follow in the categories of:
•Emergency Department Utilization Rate,
•Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths,
•Overlapping Opioid and Benzodiazepine Prescriptions,
•Adult Obesity,
•Adult Tobacco Use,
•High School Students Who Were Physically Active,
•Statin Therapy for Patients with Cardiovascular Disease, and
•Persistence of Beta-Blocker Treatment After a Heart Attack.
These quality benchmarks will be reviewed every three years, starting after 2022, to reflect improved health care performance in the state.
“I am grateful to all of the health care stakeholders for the work they have done to change how care is delivered and paid for in our state,” said Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) Secretary Dr. Kara Odom Walker, a board-certified family physician. “As a state, we must address the cost of health care and the outcomes we are getting for that spending. The Executive Order that Governor Carney signed adds transparency and attention to our health care system, both from a spending and a quality standpoint. Today is an important milestone in moving toward a health care system that is financial sustainable for families, employers, providers and insurers, and one that rewards providers for keeping Delawareans healthy.”
This Executive Order was based on recommendations from Secretary Walker in August of this year, after a year of outreach and feedback from health stakeholders. Secretary Walker will publish a manual that contains the methodology for the health care spending and quality benchmarks no later than January 31, 2019.
“For more than four decades, the Delaware Economic and Financial Advisory Council has played a vital, non-partisan role in tracking national and state economic trends and preparing credible and trusted state revenue and expenditure estimates,” said Rick Geisenberger, Secretary of Finance. “This Executive Order creates a DEFAC Health Care Spending Benchmark Subcommittee that will solicit public and stakeholder input toward recommending a credible and trusted annual target for per capita growth of total health care costs in Delaware.”
To read the order:
WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 09: BenchMarks event at National Portrait Gallery on November 9, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Larry French/Getty Images)
Couple benchmarks today. Again. Makes a certain pressure to find more tomorrow. This one is mounted to the base of a 50 m high watertower built of red brick in 1936. This photo was taken by Antti.
"Myers dark rum, cherry heering, lemon and orange bitters served in a tulip glass with fresh orange".
This was delicious.
WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 09: BenchMarks event at National Portrait Gallery on November 9, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Larry French/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 20: BenchMarks 2019 Event at the National Portrait Gallery - Smithsonian Institution on November 20, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
Governor Hogan Attends Benchmarks by Steve Kwak at National Portrait Gallery - Kogod Courtyard, 8th Street Northwest, Washington, DC
Governor Hogan Attends Benchmarks by Steve Kwak at National Portrait Gallery - Kogod Courtyard, 8th Street Northwest, Washington, DC
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS - SEPTEMBER 17: BenchMarks 2019 at Boston Symphony Hall on September 17, 2019 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Paul Marotta/Getty Images for Spearhead Marketing Group)
At the northwest corner of the intersection of hancock and jefferson streets, set in top of sidewalk, 16 feet southwest of station, 31.1 feet east of the east corner of a church, and 16.5 feet north of a power pole. The mark is above level with streets.
In April 1992 a detachment from HMAS Moresby with an SMB conducted tidal observations and sounding operations to establish a series of Laser Airborne Depth Sounder trials benchmark areas off Thistle Island near Port Lincoln in South Australia. Shore benchmarks and levelling to the tide pole on the old jetty was undertaken.