About Stratis Health - Stratis Health

Our Past, Present, and Future

Stratis Health improves health care quality and patient safety – locally and nationally – at the clinician, organization, and community levels and across the full continuum of care. Established as the Foundation for Health Care Evaluation in 1971, Stratis Health was launched in conjunction when the Health Outcomes Institute merged into the organization in 1997.

Our work in the earlier decades focused on quality assurance. As the field of health care quality advanced to embrace quality improvement science and tools and emerging models such as Baldrige and Lean, so did Stratis Health. With each passing year, we deepen our commitment to improving health and health care.

In 2021, we celebrated our 50th anniversary. We remain true to our mission and do so by embracing new and emerging improvement methodologies and deepening our work to bridge health care and community.

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Our Mission Statement

Stratis Health is a nonprofit organization that leads collaboration and innovation in health care quality and safety and serves as a trusted expert in facilitating improvement for people and communities.

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Our Values

Stratis Health is dedicated to “making lives better.” The following values guide our everyday interactions in support of our mission:

In all interactions and decisions, we are committed to quality, defined as excellence in execution; respect, defined as being fair and inclusive; and integrity, defined as being honest and transparent.
Our staff emphasizes collaboration — teamwork and partnership — in all relationships.
We aspire to be an organization where staff is continually learning, optimistic, and having fun while delivering high-quality work.

Learn more about our Board of Directors, staff, Building Healthier Communities grants,
and career opportunities below.

Our Board of Directors

The Stratis Health Board of Directors is an independent, community-based board comprised of professionals representing a broad array of interests, skills, and perspectives.

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Our Team

Our team is forward-thinking, energized, and passionate about transforming the health care system to make people’s lives better and healthier. With deep expertise and broad experience, our team is dedicated to working alongside leaders, clinicians, and front-line staff to improve health.

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Strategic Affiliations

Stratis Health has a long tradition of collaboration — it is fundamental to how we live our values and deliver our solutions. In addition to many informal collaborations, we have formal strategic affiliations to help us advance our mission.

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Community Outreach Committee

The COC is a longstanding group of consumers Stratis Health convenes quarterly to discuss, learn, and share health care issues that are timely and relevant to older adults and Medicare beneficiaries. In addition to consumers, participants include representatives from organizations representing and supporting seniors (e.g., AARP, Senior Linkage Line, MN Board on Aging, Social Security Office, ESRD Network 11, state ombudsman office, Minnesota health plans, MN long-term care associations, the local staff of our federal Congressional delegation…). We are always interested in adding new members representing diversity of thought and lived experience. Please send an email to info@stratishealth.org (with “J. Kornberg – COC” in the subject line) for membership information.

Building Healthier Communities

Our Board of Directors dedicates a portion of the organization’s reserves to an award program called “Building Healthier Communities.” Awards take the form of small grants that serve as catalysts for collaboration and innovation to nurture health care quality in Minnesota. The selected projects must be innovative, drive impact, and ensure sustainability. The awards emphasize our long-standing commitment to health equity and to patient safety and family engagement.

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