Washington Resources

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'Your Voice Matters' Continues to Speak Volumes Continuing its focus on consumer engagement, the Puget Sound Health Alliance (PSHA), through its Your Voice Matters initiative, has...	Sep 06, 2012
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 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
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
Bringing Price Transparency to Puget Sound The Puget Sound Health Alliance Board’s top priority is to reduce the cost/price of health care. A new Alliance report is the first...	Oct 30, 2013
Consumer Voices Matter In February 2014, the Washington Health Alliance released the results of its second patient experience survey, which measures...	May 07, 2014
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
Dimensions of Value: A Look at Resource Utilization in Puget Sound The Puget Sound Health Alliance released its first major report on resource utilization for high-volume hospitalizations. The report was...	Sep 02, 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 Purchasers, Driving Improvement The Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Puget Sound Health Alliance had long been reporting physician and hospital performance when the...	May 23, 2012
First Statewide Report in Nation to Measure Choosing Wisely® Recommendations Finds Overuse and Widespread Geographic Variation The first statewide report in the nation to measure Choosing Wisely® recommendations finds that patients in Washington may be exposed...	Sep 26, 2014
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
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 Patient Safety Reducing the wasteful use of health care is a major success of the Puget Sound Alliance. In cooperation with employers who purchase...	Aug 08, 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
Is More Always Better? Puget Sound probes one of the most important questions in health care For more than 20 years, the Dartmouth Atlas Project (www.dartmouthatlas.org) has focused on regional variations in the quality of health...	Dec 19, 2012
Leveraging Wellness & Transparency to Reduce Health Care Costs Health care leaders have long looked for ways to lower health costs while still providing excellent value. Aligning Forces for Quality...	Apr 25, 2014
Multicare Health SYstem - Tacoma General Improves Patient Satisfaction by 7% In 2009, national patient safety goals called for improvement in effective communication among caregivers and active involvement of...	Jul 13, 2012
Multicare Health System TCAB Team Improves Patient Engagement In 2009, national patient safety goals called for improvement in effective communication among caregivers and active involvement of...	Jul 13, 2012
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
Puget Sound Alliance Granted $3.4 Million to Continue Price and Cost Transparency Work The Puget Sound Health Alliance, leader of Aligning Forces for Quality in Washington State, will partner with the state on a $3.4 million...	Oct 31, 2013
Puget Sound Health Alliance Leaps into 2013 The Puget Sound Health Alliance (PSHA), a member of Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q), has opened the New Year with a series of exciting...	Jan 17, 2013