Cleveland, OH Resources

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A Community’s Approach to Reducing Readmissions “We’ve noticed that a lot of groups in the state are working toward the same goal and doing different things. One of our...	Oct 04, 2011
Advancing Primary Care: Opportunities to Support Care Delivery Redesign in Practices Serving Medicaid and Racially and Ethnically Diverse Patients Primary care is at a crossroads. Practices are transforming from procedure-based, physician-centric care delivery to more advanced primary...	Aug 16, 2012
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 Featured in Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. Blog Post Aligning Forces was recently featured in a Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. (CHCS) blog post about Alliances’ unique...	Mar 13, 2015
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
Better Care, Better Health, Lower Cost Cuyahoga County, Ohio had fewer hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions between 2009 and 2011 (a cost savings of $20...	Jan 30, 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
Cleveland Providers Work Together to Improve Care When Aligning Forces for Quality grantee Better Health Greater Cleveland began publicly releasing information on the quality of local...	Mar 28, 2014
Cleveland's Quality Improvement Initiative As part of the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative, the Cleveland Alliance, known as Better Health Greater Cleveland (Better...	Feb 21, 2013
Cleveland: Coaching for Clinical Change Better Health Greater Cleveland (Better Health) began offering primary care practices free on-site technical assistance to improve the...	May 21, 2012
Cleveland: Using Data to Improve Blood Pressure Control in African American Patients in Northeast Ohio A Bright Spot product from the May 2013 National Meeting.	May 06, 2013
Coaching for Clinical Change Better Health Greater Cleveland (Better Health) began offering primary care practices free on-site technical assistance to improve the...	May 22, 2012
Does Use of EHRs Help Improve Quality? Data from Cleveland—one of RWJF’s Aligning Forces for Quality communities—show that patients with diabetes who are cared...	Aug 24, 2011
Emerging Primary Care Trends and Implications for Practice Support Programs This paper outlines a summary of seven trends relevant to providing sustainable primary care practices support. It also provides an...	Jan 14, 2015
Employer Engagement Learning Collaborative: Resource Directory List of resources available to Alliances and products and activities developed by individual Alliances.	Jun 01, 2012
Hospitals Ahead of the Nation in Quality and Safety of Patient Care Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Cleveland, led by Better Health Greater Cleveland, has completed participation in an 18-month national...	Aug 07, 2013
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
PCPs drive reduction in Cleveland hospitalizations Better Health Greater Cleveland was recently featured in Family Practice News. Better Health Greater Cleveland reduced hospitalizations...	Apr 15, 2013
Primary Care Use Driving Down Costs, Improving Care The Situation: In February 2013, CMS granted a waiver enabling the state of Ohio to move up to 30,000 uninsured adults in Cuyahoga County...	Jul 31, 2014
Quality Field Notes: Data Reporting Quality Field Notes features key lessons learned by regional alliances of clinicians, patients, and payers in Aligning Forces for Quality...	Dec 13, 2013
Quality Field Notes: Equity Quality Field Notes features key lessons learned by regional Alliances of clinicians, patients, and payers in Aligning Forces for Quality...	Jul 01, 2014
Reaching Consumers About Managing Diabetes Keeping diabetes under control requires a lot of effort outside the doctor’s office. The Cleveland AF4Q Alliance reached out to...	Aug 24, 2011
Safety Net in Greater Cleveland Demonstrates What Is Possible with Medicaid Expansion The expansion of Medicaid in Ohio was far from certain on February 5, 2013, when CMS granted a waiver that enabled Ohio to move...	May 07, 2014