Maine 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
A Holistic Approach to Improving Health Care Although health care providers have long recognized that many of their patients have both behavioral and physical health needs,...	May 07, 2014
A Model for the Rest of Us: Using Quality Measurement to Promote Value The performance measurement and public reporting for the Maine AF4Q alliance is spearheaded by the Maine Health Management Coalition (...	Sep 02, 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 Communities Reimagine Health Care AF4Q communities are at the forefront; re-thinking the way in which health care is organized, delivered, and paid for. For example, one...	Aug 15, 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
Applying a Team Approach to Patient Discharge St. Mary’s Medical Center, a 233-bed acute care facility in Lewiston, ME, “patient-centered” is more than just a buzz...	Dec 13, 2012
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
Building a New Health Care System Around Community “I met other people with critical illnesses, and I knew I wasn’t alone. Our voices were heard, and we were able to make a...	May 09, 2013
Caring for Health Care's Costliest Patients One percent of Americans account for 20 percent of the nation’s health care costs; five percent account for 50 percent. Who are these...	Jan 29, 2014
CEO Champions Wellness Program is Winning Over Maine CEO Champions, a competitive wellness program in Maine, is gaining momentum. Spearheaded by Nancy Morris, communications and member...	Aug 13, 2013
Choosing Wisely Web Links This document includes a set of links to additional information about Choosing Wisely - about which Maine AF4Q consumer representative...	Aug 22, 2013
Community Care Teams Key to Maine Patient-Centered Medical Home Pilot Project The conveners of the Maine Patient Centered Medical Home Pilot Project, the Dirigo Health Agency's Maine Quality Forum, Maine Quality...	Mar 21, 2013
Eastern Maine Medical Center Uses "Blue Feet" to Improve Care Eastern Maine Medical Center placed "Blue Feet" along the corridors of their TCAB pilot unit to help patients know how far they...	Dec 20, 2011
Employer Engagement Learning Collaborative: Resource Directory List of resources available to Alliances and products and activities developed by individual Alliances.	Jun 01, 2012
Engaging Consumers through the GetBetterMaine Campaign To date, the Maine AF4Q alliance has focused its consumer engagement efforts on informing people that quality measures are publicly...	Sep 02, 2011
Engaging Consumers, Improving Care A growing number of quality improvement projects are enabling patients, families, and advocates to advise and affect decision-making within...	Mar 09, 2012
Engaging Healthcare Consumers through Social Media: Maine Alliance Case Study This case study, developed by the Health Information Technology Resource Center, outlines the Maine AF4Q Alliance's planning process,...	Aug 01, 2011
Engaging Patients in Improving Ambulatory Care Patients are the heart of any primary care practice. Patients and practices share a mission to improve patient health—a mission in...	Mar 22, 2013
Expanding "Hot Spotting" to New Communities On March 29, 2012, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation held a briefing in Washington, DC to highlight the work of Jeffrey Brenner, MD....	May 01, 2012
Getting Greater Value for Your Health Care Benefits: Lessons for Success from Employers, Unions and Coalitions in Aligning Forces for Quality This presentation, delivered during a webinar hosted on December 9, 2011, by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation offers valuable insight...	Dec 09, 2011
How Health Care Costs Affect Small-Town Living Health care costs are measured in trillions of dollars and typically illustrated on a national scale. This wide-angle view can be...	Feb 11, 2014