Table 1 Small Group Questions for Listening Sessions

1. Community’s health

Please think broadly about your community.

1.1 How do people in your community define health?

1.2 What are the most important things that positively or negatively affect the health of your community?

2. Quality clinical health care for people from your community

Please think about optimal health care in primary care clinics, for people in your community in MN. What makes for positive (good quality) patient experiences at primary care clinics?

1.1 What aspects of relationships with clinic staff do people most want from good medical care?

2.2 What aspects of clinic process do people most want from good medical care?

2.3 What health results do people most want from good medical care?

3. Recommendations for quality clinical health care

3.1 Prioritize your identified qualities. Please share your top 5 issues with the group.

3.2 How do you feel about Minnesota state aligning financial payment with these prioritized issues?

3.3 Consider the context of people’s lives, known as “social determinants of health (SDOH)”.

3.3.1 How would people in your community respond to clinics asking about their SDOH?

3.3.2 If clinics collected SDOH data, how should clinics use or respond to that information?

3.3.3 Do you think the state of Minnesota should require that clinics collect this information and consider these issues in terms of financial reimbursement?