• The percentage of adults, aged 18 to 64 years old, without health insurance decreased from 22.3 percent in 2010 to 20.4 percent in 2013.
• During the first half of 2014, the percentage of adults without health insurance decreased to 15.6 percent.
• During the first half of 2014, declines in rates of uninsurance were larger among Black and Hispanic adults than among Caucasians.
Additionally, the National Quality Strategy has six priorities — patient safety, person-centered care, care coordination, effective treatment, healthy living and care affordability.
Here are six key finding related to the priorities from the report:
• Half of Patient Safety measures improved, led by a 17 percent reduction in rates of hospital-acquired conditions.
• Person-centered care improved steadily, especially for children.
• Care coordination improved as providers enhanced discharge processes and adopted health information technologies.
• Effective treatment in hospitals achieved high levels of performance.
• Healthy living improved in about half of the measures followed, led by selected adolescent vaccines from 2008 to 2012.
• Care affordability worsened from 2002 to 2010 and then leveled off.
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