About AF4Q
Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) is
the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation’s (RWJF) signature effort to lift the overall quality of
health care in targeted communities, reduce racial and ethnic
disparities and provide models for national reform. AF4Q asks the
people who get care, give care and pay for care to work together
toward common, fundamental objectives to lead to better care.
The $300 million commitment to improve health care in 17 commu-
nities, that together cover 12.5 percent of the U.S. population, is the
largest effort of its kind ever undertaken by a U.S. philanthropy.
Each of the Aligning Forces communities has built its initiative
around a core, multi-stakeholder leadership alliance working
to advance the goals and activities of AF4Q at the local level.
These alliances include participation from physicians, nurses,
patients, consumers and consumer groups, purchasers,
hospitals, health plans, safety net providers and others.
Working in partnership with RWJF to manage the activities of
AF4Q is a national program office (NPO) located at the Center
for Health Care Quality at The George Washington University
Medical Center School of Public Health and Health Services.
The NPO oversees and directs assistance to the communities
participating in the initiative.