An organization’s community educator did not see the expected improvement in hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) values...

Within the Population Health and Care Transitions domain, NAHQ emphasizes the use of stratified data to identify disparities and target interventions. Although improvements are seen across groups, the Hispanic population continues to have HbA1c levels well above the target threshold (<8%) even after education.

At 4 months post-intervention, Hispanic patients average 9.2%, the highest among all groups and significantly above goal. This indicates that current interventions are insufficient for this population and that additional, culturally appropriate or targeted strategies are needed.

White and Asian non-Hispanic groups are already well below target, and Black non-Hispanic patients, while still above goal, demonstrate greater improvement and lower values than the Hispanic group. Therefore, Option B is the correct target population.