Dr. Jennifer Lundblad

And that funding will allow us to design and implement improvement initiatives.

So in those initiatives, Clarence, our clients are sometimes a group of hospitals or a group of clinics or a group of nursing homes.

So it might be setting specific work in healthcare.

It might be a geographic area so that we're working with a community or a region or a state.

Or it could be a community defined by not just geography, but maybe race or ethnicity or religion.

So we've done work with the Jewish community in the Twin Cities.

We've done work with the African-American communities in Frogtown and St.

Paul.

So it depends on...

What the initiative is, our client is a health care organization, a community or a group that has come together because they have a shared goal or interest in improving health or care for their members.

we've really shifted over that time span that you've known Stratus Health from a primary focus on healthcare organizations as individual entities to really thinking about community as our unit of action.

And that has also changed how we think about quality and quality improvement.

So that long answer, Clarence, we have a wide range of

who our clients are from healthcare organizations to communities to state agencies and others.

We are proud to support the work of He-Man Partnership.

It's an excellent organization doing excellent work.

You also asked about assessing progress.

Again, data is a really important part of quality, whether it's quality assurance or quality improvement, and we assess that progress in multiple ways.

Sometimes it's very formal in terms of data collection methodologies, where we might be looking at

claims data from the healthcare records.