"With this scorecard, we are getting closer to providing people at the ground level—hospitals, doctors, mayors, county executives, business leaders—the information to make local decisions about how to organize the care in their communities." So says David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P., chair of the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System, in a podcast on the new Scorecard on Local Health System Performance, 2012. Listen to the podcast to learn how communities can use the Local Scorecard information to improve. You can also watch a video in which Cathy Schoen, M.S., one of the authors of the report, discusses its highlights and implications.
