Primary Care Task Force Statutory Deliverable 6: Monitor and Track the Needs of and Service Delivery to Residents of the Commonwealth

Statutory Deliverable #6:

Monitor and Track the Needs of and Service

Delivery to Residents of the Commonwealth

Introduction

Over the last several years, as the Massachusetts health care system faced the COVID-19 pandemic, the

bankruptcy and dissolution of Steward Health Care, and several closures of maternity and behavioral health

services, health care leaders across the Commonwealth repeatedly called for a greater ability to align health

care resources with health needs. Providers, payers, community advocates, and policymakers agreed that an

assessment of health care resources should be informed by robust data and analysis that considers past,

current, and future health needs of the population.

In Statutory Deliverable #3, the Massachusetts Primary Care Access, Delivery, and Payment Task Force (PCTF)