Maine
On March 29, 2012, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation held a briefing in Washington, DC to highlight the work of Jeffrey Brenner, MD. Brenner, a local Camden, N.J., physician, spurred a national health discussion with a feature in the New Yorker describing his work improving health care in one of the poorest and most dangerous cities in the country.
At the briefing, Brenner discussed his work identifying "hot spots" in and beyond New Jersey, and colleagues from Maine and Delaware discussed their local efforts to address high-utilizers. The...
Over the past 18 months, Redington-Fairview General Hospital's TCAB Team made it their goal to improve their HCAHPS score for Nurse Responsiveness and patient satisfaction with Pain Control. After a national TCAB meeting where they learned about hourly rounding and the “Four P’s”, the team thought it made sense to try a strategy to meet the patients’ needs before they ask. The aide and the primary care nurse alternate rounding so that one or the other is in the patient’s room every hour. During the rounding process the patient is asked about pain,...
A growing number of quality improvement projects are enabling patients, families, and advocates to advise and affect decision-making within their local health care systems. A new report from Aligning Forces for Quality shares the experiences of five communities that are engaging consumers to improve ambulatory care. A recent Lessons Learned piece describes efforts made in the Humboldt County, Oregon, Minnesota, Maine, and South Central Pennsylvania alliances to incorporate consumer engagement into ambulatory quality improvement efforts. While each approach is different, each communities...
The Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative in Maine is led by Maine Quality Counts (QC), in partnership with the Maine Health Management Coalition (MHMC) and the Dirigo Health Agency’s Maine Quality Forum (MQF). Established in 2004 by a network of 35 organizations, QC is a multi-stakeholder statewide regional health care collaborative committed to working across organizations and communities to improve health care systems and outcomes for the people of Maine. QC, MHMC and MQF work to coordinate existing but disparate efforts across the state that promote local, coordinated systems of care and the resources that support them. The goals of the Maine AF4Q Alliance are to improve health status, promote consistent delivery of high quality care, improve access to health care and contain costs.
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