Greater Boston
Organizations that have patients and consumers at the table lend a valuable perspective to decision makers about the way care is provided in their communities. Hearing and learning directly from individual consumers—and including them as a part of the decision-making process—can provide a unique, personal, and highly valuable contribution to ensuring high-quality, affordable care.
Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Greater Boston, led by Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP), recognizes the importance of engaging patient, family, and community stakeholders. As a...
Publishing information about how patients experience the care they receive at their doctor’s office is one way to increase physician accountability and drive public awareness about health care quality. That was what Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP) had in mind when it participated in a pilot project with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports. The result? In June 2012, Consumer Reports published its first patient experience ratings for nearly 500 primary care physician practices in Massachusetts, expanding the reach of this...
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s 16 Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) communities are showing that bringing together the people who give care, get care and pay for care improves quality.
After six years, AF4Q communities have built transformative partnerships, often where none existed before:
- Data on quality, cost and patient experience measures are being collected and publicly reported.
- Practice coaches are deployed in hundreds of primary care practices.
- Hospitals are improving care from the emergency department (ED) to...
The Aligning Forces for Quality initiative in Greater Boston is operated by Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP) and is governed by a Leadership Team including over 35 Greater Boston-area organizations and stakeholder representatives. MHQP is a nonprofit, broad-based coalition that has been collecting and reporting on health care quality information for providers and the public since 1995.
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