Detroit, MI Resources

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3 Lessons for Engaging Patients in Their Health Care Quality Field Notes features key lessons learned by regional alliances of clinicians, patients, and payers in Aligning Forces for Quality...	Mar 05, 2014
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
Breaking Down the Barriers to Health Care in Detroit Detroit health care leaders are working to improve access to health care by addressing chronic disease, better communicating with...	Oct 23, 2014
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
Creating Regional Partnerships to Improve Care Transitions: Creating a Behavioral Health Intervention Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Alliances have implemented or are partnering in care transitions programs to ensure patient care that is...	Jan 07, 2015
Creating Regional Partnerships to Improve Care Transitions: Hiring Care Transition Coaches Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Alliances have implemented or are partnering in care transitions programs to ensure patient care that is...	Jan 07, 2015
Detroit Easing Care Transitions The Greater Detroit Area Health Council (GDAHC) was recently recognized for its efforts to connect patients with primary care providers. An...	Jul 11, 2013
Detroit Report on Quality Shows Improvement in the Delivery of Care. In 2008, the Greater Detroit Area Health Council (GDAHC) launched its online physician organization performance public report, now...	Sep 02, 2011
Detroit Working To Reduce Health Care Disparities The Detroit Alliance has garnered positive media attention for its efforts to reduce disparities in care. Marshall Chin, MD, director...	Feb 26, 2014
Detroit, MI: Getting Back to the Basics to Prevent Heart Disease A Bright Spot product from the May 2013 National Meeting.	May 06, 2013
Detroit: Simple Tools Reduce Emergency Department Use A team convened by the Greater Detroit Area Health Council (GDAHC), an AF4Q Alliance, was able to devise a plan and conduct a pilot...	May 21, 2012
Employer Engagement Learning Collaborative: Resource Directory List of resources available to Alliances and products and activities developed by individual Alliances.	Jun 01, 2012
Find MI Care is Improving Access and Reducing Readmissions At least 7.5 million people have signed up for health coverage through the Affordable Care Act exchanges, and the number is...	May 07, 2014
Fixing Matters of the Heart Heart failure, with its health care services, medications, and effects on productivity, costs the nation more than $34 billion each year....	Oct 30, 2013
Getting Back to the Basics to Prevent Heart Disease “I knew I needed to make a change and be proactive in reducing my risk for heart disease. The exercise program helped me lose over 25...	May 09, 2013
Identifying and Reducing Disparities in Health Care Your health care depends on who you are. Race and ethnicity continue to influence a patient’s chance of receiving many specific...	Jul 29, 2014
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
Improving Care in Emergency Departments Three Southeast Michigan hospitals, DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital, St. Joseph Mercy Oakland, and McLaren Macomb, improved care in their...	Aug 07, 2013
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
Language is the Heart of Patient Safety Moe Rustom of Detroit has been a nurse for more than 23 years and understands the challenges of limited English proficiency in patients as...	Dec 02, 2014
Managing Health Begins with Education In a pilot designed to increase the number of people with diabetes who receive in-depth training on diabetes self-management education,...	Sep 02, 2011
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