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NYSDOH SPARCS Training Webinar
Originally presented on October 10, 2013
This webinar targeted to SPARCS coordinators will address:
- Why SPARCS is expanding the collection of race and ethnicity data.
- How improved race and ethnicity data will help in identifying disparities in health care quality
- Increased national legislative and regulatory attention to race and ethnicity data
- Steps to improve quality of data collection and expand race and ethnicity categories
- How facilities are expected to code the expanded race and ethnicity data categories
- What is required by hospitals and facilities that submit data to SPARCS