Kansas City, MO Resources
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In practice, patient-centered health care should fit the unique needs and preferences of individual patients, instead of a “one...

May 23, 2012

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s 16 Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) communities are showing that bringing together the...

Aug 15, 2012

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

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

The 117 hospitals participating in the AF4Q Hospital Quality Network are committed to improving the quality of care they deliver. The...

Aug 18, 2011

More than 7 million children live with asthma in the United States. As a school nurse, Lizzie Cockrell has seen children struggle to...

Dec 02, 2014

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

The Kansas City, Mo Alliance expanded their consumer engagement efforts by hosting events designed to bring both consumers and providers to...

Aug 22, 2011

Creating Regional Partnerships to Improve Care Transitions   As patients move from one care setting to another, problems such as...

Jul 28, 2014

Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Alliances have implemented or are partnering in care transitions programs to ensure patient care that is...

Jan 07, 2015

Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Alliances have implemented or are partnering in care transitions programsto ensure patient care that...

Jul 15, 2014

Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Alliances have implemented or are partnering in care transitions programs to ensure patient care that is...

Jan 07, 2015

Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Alliances have implemented or are partnering in care transitions programs to ensure patient care that...

Jul 15, 2014

Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Alliances have implemented or are partnering in care transitions programs to ensure patient care that...

Jul 15, 2014

Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Alliances have implemented or are partnering in care transitions programs to ensure patient care that...

Jul 15, 2014

List of resources available to Alliances and products and activities developed by individual Alliances.

Jun 01, 2012

In the past, physicians in the Kansas City area didn’t have an easy way to validate the accuracy of the data from their electronic...

Dec 19, 2012

  Aligning Forces for Quality is, at its heart, about innovation. The communities and people who engage with this unique program are...

May 21, 2012

Poorly controlled asthma reduces the quality of life for children and adults and dramatically drives up the total cost of their care....

Aug 07, 2013

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

Kansas City health leaders are working together to tackle high pediatric asthma rates by building solutions to better identify and treat...

Oct 23, 2014

The Greater Kansas City’s area Aligning Forces for Quality community, led by the Kansas City Quality Improvement Consortium (KCQIC),...

Jul 30, 2013

A Bright Spot product from the May 2013 National Meeting.

May 06, 2013

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) this week announced the first three participants in a program designed to bolster...

Nov 28, 2012

“Now that I am in the asthma program, I can have more fun at school. I understand my asthma better and don’t worry about it as...

May 09, 2013