Oregon Resources

Title	Date
A Community’s Approach to Reducing Readmissions “We’ve noticed that a lot of groups in the state are working toward the same goal and doing different things. One of our...	Oct 04, 2011
A Leader in Health Data Collection The Oregon Alliance’s focus on data and reporting has led it to become a critical partner with Oregon’s state Medicaid...	Aug 07, 2013
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 Oregon's Public Reports Now Include Medicare Data The Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation (Q Corp), the leader of the AF4Q Oregon initiative, recently released the nation's first...	Sep 05, 2014
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
Better Patient Care Through Primary Care Transformation Change has come quickly in Oregon over the past few years. In 2009, the Oregon state legislature created the Oregon Health Policy Board and...	May 09, 2013
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
Collaborating with Medicaid to Improve Health Care Two Multi-Payer Alliances This brief from the Center for Health Care Strategies profiles two multi-payer quality improvement Alliances that are part of the Robert...	Jan 30, 2013
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
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
Engaging the Patient Perspective Produces Real Change In 2010 Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation, a nonprofit quality improvement organization, launched its Patients and Families as Leaders...	Mar 21, 2013
Get Vertical: And Don’t Take Back Pain Lying Down "For people with the most common type of low back pain, imaging tests don’t give doctors much information that’s useful...	Jan 12, 2012
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 Transparency in Health Care Costs The Institute of Medicine estimates that up to 30 percent of the $2 trillion in annual health care spending in the U.S. is...	May 07, 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
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
Medicare Goes Local with Doctor Data The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) this week announced the first three participants in a program designed to bolster...	Nov 28, 2012
Oregon Hospitals Join Effort to Improve Quality of Health Care The Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (OAHHS) has been selected to participate in the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q...	Aug 23, 2011
Oregon Tackles Hospital Readmissions Through Multi-stakeholder Conference On October 4, 2011, the Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation held its Reducing Readmissions in Oregon conference, bringing together...	Oct 27, 2011
Oregon TCAB Data Submission Templates The following are templates that will guide you through data submissions for the Oregon Regional TCAB.	Sep 26, 2011
Oregon: Better Patient Care Through Primary Care Transformation A Bright Spot product from the May 2013 National Meeting.	May 06, 2013
Oregon: Working with Consumers to Tackle Low Back Pain The Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation (Quality Corp) had already worked with the Oregon Health Authority, Oregon Health...	May 21, 2012
Patients and Families as Leaders in Health Care Oregon’s Patients and Families as Leaders program works with five health care organizations to include patients in all levels of...	Aug 23, 2011