New Mexico Resources

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AF4Q Drives Health Care Transformation The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s 16 Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) communities are showing that bringing together the...	Aug 15, 2012
AF4Q in Focus Every day, AF4Q communities are finding new ways of approaching old problems in our health care system. There is no one road we must take...	Nov 14, 2012
AF4Q: Who We Are, What We Do Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) is the visionary effort of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to pilot real change in today's...	Jul 31, 2014
AF4Q’s Diverse Hospital Network The 117 hospitals participating in the AF4Q Hospital Quality Network are committed to improving the quality of care they deliver. The...	Aug 18, 2011
Albuquerque's First Hospital and Practice Public Reports The Albuquerque Coalition for Healthcare Quality posted its first ambulatory and hospital quality reports. Hospital Snapshot uses...	Sep 01, 2011
Albuquerque: Community Outreach Exceeds Expectations When the Albuquerque Coalition for Healthcare Quality in Albuquerque, NM, spent $80,000 for radio and print advertising to launch a...	May 21, 2012
Albuquerque: Paving the Way to Payment Reform in New Mexico A Bright Spot product from the May 2013 National Meeting.	May 06, 2013
Anything But Routine- Lovelace Westside Hospital Transforms Care at the Bedside The demands on physicians, nurses, and staff in medical surgical units can be intense. Juggling complex patient needs, making the rounds,...	Dec 17, 2012
Beyond Widgets: The Pursuit of Payment Reform In a normal market-based economic model, rational actors respond to incentives. Competition raises quality and lowers costs. Innovations...	Jul 08, 2013
Bridging the Gap: Health Care and Population Health Bridging the Gap More than 80 participants gathered in Dallas September 19-20 to discuss bridging the gap between health care and...	Oct 22, 2013
Collaboration in New Mexico Aligning efforts and establishing partnerships across systems is increasingly essential to achieving the Triple Aim of improved health...	Jun 19, 2013
Community Outreach Exceeds Expectations When the Albuquerque Coalition for Healthcare Quality in Albuquerque, NM, spent $80,000 for radio and print advertising to launch a public...	May 22, 2012
Driving Quality Improvement in Family Practices The New Mexico Coalition for Healthcare Quality launched its ambulatory quality improvement (AQI) learning collaborative Quality...	Aug 07, 2013
Employer Engagement Learning Collaborative: Resource Directory List of resources available to Alliances and products and activities developed by individual Alliances.	Jun 01, 2012
Engaging and Sustaining Employers are the largest purchasers of health care in the United States, insuring more than 55 percent of the population....	May 07, 2014
Engaging Employers in Changing Health Care Health care leaders in New Mexico, including employers and other key stakeholders, are finding creative ways to improve the state’s...	Nov 18, 2014
Healthy Patients- A Strategy to Improve Pneumococcal Vaccination Rates The Lovelace Medical Center TCAB team dramatically improved the delivery of Pneumococcal vaccinations to hospitalized patients from 48%...	Apr 04, 2012
Hospital at Home, Bright Spot Learn about the success of the New Mexico Alliance in regards to Hospital at Home through this Bright Spot brief.	Nov 14, 2011
Illustrating Innovation Through Bright Spots Aligning Forces for Quality is, at its heart, about innovation. The communities and people who engage with this unique program are...	May 21, 2012
Insights from Aligning Forces for Quality Aligning Forces for Quality is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation designed to lift the overall quality of care in...	Sep 25, 2012
Is it Really an Emergency? The Albuquerque Coalition for Healthcare Quality launched a series of radio ads to educate patients about when to use an emergency...	Dec 20, 2011
Lessons Learned: Engaging Employers in Health Care Employers have great—if, to date, underutilized—market leverage in buying health care, and often can influence other...	Apr 05, 2012
National TCAB Holds Final Meeting The AF4Q National TCAB teams convened July 25-27 in San Francisco for their final meeting. Among the 121 attendees were the hospital team...	Aug 08, 2012
New Mexico Hospitals: Creating a Model of Collaboration and Commitment Aligning efforts and establishing partnerships across systems is becoming a necessary fact for health care providers and organizations as...	May 20, 2013
New Mexico Kicks-Off Regional Transforming Care at the Bedside Initiative In July, eight hospitals across New Mexico joined the Regional Aligning Forces for Quality Transforming Care at the Bedside (AF4Q TCAB)...	Aug 03, 2011