Improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of publicly financed health care
Dianne Hasselman, MSPH
Dianne Hasselman is the director of quality and equality at the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS), where she leads multi-payer and multi-stakeholder quality improvement initiatives. She is currently directing Reducing Disparities at the Practice Site, an initiative designed to strengthen the primary care infrastructure of small, under-resourced primary care practices serving a large volume of Medicaid beneficiaries and racially/ethnically diverse populations. She also manages CHCS' involvement in Aligning Forces for Quality initiative, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's signature effort to lift the overall quality of health care throughout 15 communities across the United States. Ms. Hasselman helped to spearhead CHCS' Regional Quality Improvement initiative, which tested the ability of state Medicaid agencies to lead alignment of quality improvement efforts across public and private payers and purchasers to improve chronic care delivery throughout a region.
Prior to joining CHCS, Ms. Hasselman was an associate director at Navigant Consulting, Inc., a national consulting firm, where she provided health care consulting services to state Medicaid agencies. Previously, she was a principal at Tucker Alan, also a national consulting firm.
Ms. Hasselman received her master's degree in public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her bachelor's degree in communications from the University of California at San Diego.