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Maine Resources

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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
Implementing Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Pilot Projects: Lessons from AF4Q Communities As the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model emerges as a key vehicle to improve the quality of healthcare and to control costs,...	Aug 29, 2011
Improving Hospital Readmission Rates Patients often leave the hospital uninformed and confused about how to care for themselves properly at home, ultimately causing them...	Aug 07, 2013
Improving Quality and Patient Safety in Maine To improve quality locally, 11 hospitals across Maine are participating in the AF4Q Hospital Quality Network. At these hospitals, teams...	Sep 02, 2011
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
Insights from the Field: How Reports on Health Care Cost, Resource use, and Quality Can Better Serve Local Physician Organizations Multi-stakeholder health care collaboratives are making progress in collecting and analyzing health care cost, resource use, and quality...	Aug 18, 2015
Labor-Management Groups Drive Delivery System Redesign The Maine Health Management Coalition (MHMC), a partner in AF4Q Maine, wanted to encourage its members to seek care...	May 23, 2012
Leveraging Existing Infrastructure for Statewide Practice Improvement In 2006, Medical Care Development (MCD) successfully obtained grant funding over two years to establish the Maine ...	May 23, 2012
Maine Shifts Health Focus To Community Across Maine, patient-centered medical homes and their community care teams are improving quality and patient outcomes while reducing...	Feb 25, 2014
Maine: Building A New Health Care System Around Community A Bright Spot product from the May 2013 National Meeting.	May 06, 2013
Maine: Labor-Management Groups Drive Delivery System Redesign The Maine Health Management Coalition (MHMC), a partner in AF4Q Maine, wanted to encourage its members to seek care from the...	May 21, 2012
Maine: Leveraging Existing Infrastructure for Statewide Practice Improvement In 2006, Medical Care Development (MCD) successfully obtained grant funding over two years to establish the Maine ...	May 21, 2012
Maine’s “First STEPS” Program Results in Substantial Improvement in Child Immunizations As part of the Improving Health Outcomes for Children (IHOC) Program, the AF4Q Maine Alliance, led by Maine Quality Counts, and the...	Jul 30, 2013
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
Protecting Hearts Patients often leave the hospital uneducated and confused about how to care properly for themselves at home, ultimately causing them to be...	Jul 03, 2013
Quality Field Notes: Regional Collaboratives Can Improve the Value of Local Health Care Quality Field Notes features key lessons learned by regional Alliances of clinicians, patients, and payers in Aligning Forces for...	Feb 19, 2015
Safety-Net ACOs Hold Promise to Achieve the Triple Aim Aligning Forces Alliances in Maine, Minnesota, and Oregon were recently featured in Health Affairs for their efforts in...	Jan 21, 2015
Southern Maine Medical Center Improves Team Communication At Southern Maine Medical Center (SMMC), a time savings of 15 to 17 minutes every shift means more quality time for patients. “...	Jul 16, 2012
St. Mary’s Medical Center Strengthens Discharge Process St. Mary’s Medical Center in Maine has had much success with its multidisciplinary discharge planning at the bedside. The TCAB unit...	Jul 13, 2012
Staff Led Initiative Improves Patient and Nurse Satisfaction Over the past 18 months, Redington-Fairview General Hospital's TCAB Team made it their goal to improve their HCAHPS score for Nurse...	Mar 26, 2012
Teaming up for Patient-Centered Care “The best way out of fragmented care is how we broker the architecture of care coordination,” said Dr. Barbara Crowley of Maine...	Oct 30, 2013
The Concierge Will See You Now HD Goodall Hospital in Sanford, ME, is a rural, non-profit hospital seeing about 22,000 patients a year. The emergency department (ED)...	Jul 13, 2012
The Evolving Landscape for the CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey: Understanding and Navigating Multiple Surveying Requirements This resource is to help multi-stakeholder organizations, health care systems, and practices understand the complex and rapidly evolving...	Nov 06, 2014
The Four Stages of Grief, for Doctors Nathan Wilson, a self-identified “qualitologist,” said that “nothing will agitate a group of physicians more than...	Dec 02, 2014