Care Across Settings

On March 29, 2012, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation held a briefing in Washington, DC to highlight the work of Jeffrey Brenner, MD. Brenner, a local Camden, N.J., physician, spurred a national health discussion with a feature in the New Yorker describing his work improving health care in one of the poorest and most dangerous cities in the country.


At the briefing, Brenner discussed his work identifying "hot spots" in and beyond New Jersey, and colleagues from Maine and Delaware discussed their local efforts to address high-utilizers. The...

The Aligning Forces for Quality November 2011 National Meeting was held in Washington DC and was broken up into three distinct tracks: Payment, Care Across Settings, and Cost.  View video highlights on discussions and lectures below!  

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Resources
  Learn about the success of the New Mexico Alliance in regards to Hospital at Home through this Bright Spot brief.  
  Learn about the success of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in regards to their Guided Care program through this Bright...
  Materials from the Align | Accelerate | Achieve sessions for the Care Across Settings Track.  Includes handouts, presentation...
Post Meeting Resources download full agenda
Ted Rooney of Maine illustrates how Maine is trying to connect/coordinate/integrate various public/community health and health care programs to...
Presentation slides and meeting materials shared during the National Meeting held in Chicago, IL, May 13-15, 2009.
Care Across Settings 101

When a patient moves across settings, like from a hospital to a nursing home, they are particularly vulnerable. Lapses in care, miscommunication of information between providers, mixups with medication – all are possible side effects of “handoffs” that are not well coordinated.

AF4Q Alliances have done significant work to improve the quality of care in hospital settings, and are connecting these efforts to improve care across settings. Alliances are working to design care delivery systems that focus on the continuity of care, avoid unnecessary risks in quality and safety, and promote coordination between providers.