Minnesota Resources

Title	Date
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 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
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
Composite Measures: A New Gold Standard in Diabetes Care Type II diabetes has become a national public health threat. As a chronic disease, diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and...	Feb 28, 2014
Composite Measures: A New Gold Standard in Diabetes Care Type II diabetes has become a national public health threat. As a chronic disease, diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and...	Feb 28, 2014
Crafting a Measuring Stick For Health Care Costs Minnesota health care leaders are building on quality measurement and improvement efforts—including reductions in avoidable...	Aug 14, 2014
Creating a Framework for Shared Decision Making (SDM) Engaging patients in decisions about their care increases their involvement and satisfaction. Shared decision making (SDM) is one method to...	Sep 06, 2011
Developing a Public Report for the CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey: A Decision Guide Public reports on patient experience with physician practices across a community can be invaluable for demonstrating how well these...	Oct 02, 2013
DIAMOND Depression Care Wins High Marks The innovative DIAMOND Program in Minnesota has shown success in caring for patients with depression. Jim Chase, president of MN Community...	Sep 16, 2011
Ellsworth Medical Clinic: Achieving Higher Quality Through Quality Improvement With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, MNCM produced a five-minute video highlighting the low-tech but very effective...	Sep 06, 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, 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
Expand Tobacco Policy Outreach and Development to an American Indian Tribal Community in Minnesota This initiative, managed by MN Community Measurement and spearheaded by the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board (GPTCHB),...	Jan 09, 2012
How 10 High-Achievers Do It in Minnesota The quality improvement (QI) work of MN Community Measurement (MNCM) was featured in the August 2014 edition of regional medical journal...	Aug 22, 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 Through Screening and Public Reporting Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States and the leading cause of cancer deaths among...	Jul 31, 2014
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
Keeping Mental Health Readmissions RARE It’s well known that the RARE (Reducing Avoidable Readmissions Effectively) Campaign has been highly successful in...	May 07, 2014
Minnesota Depression Measures are NQF endorsed In Minnesota, the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI) has worked on managing depression for more than a decade. Its...	Sep 06, 2011
Minnesota is Transforming Healthcare In Jan 2013 there was a report in the NEJM about aspirin prophylaxis in ischemic vascular disease to prevent heart attacks and strokes.(1)...	Apr 18, 2013
Minnesota Making Progress with Health Information Technology Responses to the 2011 Health Information Technology (HIT) Ambulatory Clinic Survey demonstrate progress in the advancement of HIT use in...	Sep 16, 2011
Minnesota Medical Group Improves Patient Experience through Public Reporting Stillwater Medical Group, one of nine medical groups participating in the Minnesota AF4Q Alliance, has made an early commitment to...	Sep 16, 2011
Minnesota Releases Nation’s First Total Cost of Care Data for Medical Groups A new report has just been published by MN Community Measurement that allows consumers for the first time to compare the cost of care at...	Jan 07, 2015