West Michigan
West Michigan’s Project Healthy Grad AF4Q PHP initiative aims to increase high school graduation rates, while ensuring all high school students are prepared for and have access to post-secondary education. West Michigan will work to require schools to screen for student insurance status and eligibility, connect students to tuition incentive programs based on Medicaid/S-CHIP eligibility, and explore...
On July 27, 2011, the West Michigan Aligning Forces for Quality Alliance brought together approximately 50 people who collectively represented the purchasers, payers, providers and consumers to discuss opportunities for health care payment reform in their community. Mr. Harold Miller, Executive Director of the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform and President and CEO of the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI), presented an overview of payment reform—why it is needed, as well as several examples of payment mechanisms better constructed to foster both...
Public reports are an integral part of the AF4Q initiative in West Michigan. Every physician organization participating in the Alliance for Health public report has scored above the national average on diabetes outcome measures for insured patients. In the last year, the Alliance for Health produced two reports on diabetes. The first report, using Medicare claims data as the source, contains information of diabetes care processes (e.g., HbA1c testing rates). The second report was based upon clinical data reported from Advantage Health, Lakeshore Health Network, Metro Health, MMPC and...
The Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative in West Michigan is led by The Alliance for Health (the Alliance), a 60-year-old 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership corporation operating as a regional health improvement collaborative. The Alliance represents those who receive care, give care and pay for care, including providers, citizens, employers, community organizations, government, organized labor, academic institutions and health plans. Its mission is encouraging optimal health for all through high quality health care services at the lowest cost.
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