How do practice coaches work with patient partners (patients who are engaged in QI efforts) to improve ambulatory care?

outcomes. A systematic review of 40 quality improvement initiatives found that engaging patients in QI efforts led to concrete service changes: improving appointment access, enhancing support mechanisms for patients with chronic illness, and improving clinic work flows.     AF4Q Alliances are on the ...

Oct 17,2013

Mercy Hospital Anderson’s Patient Family Council Improves TCAB Team's Understanding of Patient Experience

improve the care and service the hospital is providing.” The team has presented their Patient Family ... heightened the TCAB team’s understanding of the patient experience, improved care, and increased patient ... with the most improvement in the following domains: communication with nurses, help from hospital ...

Jul 13,2012

We Ask Because We Care

language (R/E/L). The Institute of Medicine’s 2002 report Unequal Treatment detailed consistent ... can pinpoint possible differences in care and areas for improvement. “We as a nation are aware ...

Feb 22,2012

standardized patient race, ethnicity and language (R/E/L) data; Analysis of performance measures by R/E/L; and Identification and evaluation of quality improvement interventions targeted to ...

Aug 01,2011

How is practice coaching a resource for ambulatory practice improvement?

In ARHQ’s Decision Brief: Primary Care Quality Improvement No. 1 , the authors state that ... redesign in ways that could fundamentally improve healthcare in the US. But to ensure that these efforts ... to chronic illness care, access and efficiency, preventive services, self-management support, and ...

Nov 25,2013

Improving Hospital Readmission Rates

“To meet these goals, Maine hospitals targeted several specific areas for improvement, including ... Agencies on Aging, to ensure that patients have access to needed social services and supports,” said Lisa ...

Aug 07,2013

Improvement

& Medicaid Services and the National Committee for Quality Assurance—that now favor a version of the ... consumer demand for an improved patient experience. [1] Further information about ...

May 14,2015

Collaborating, Analyzing, and Improving Care in Boston

Wed, 2014-05-07 (All day)   Is it possible to improve health care ... starting point.   “An important aspect of improving the quality of Massachusetts’s health care ... underutilization of services, higher resource use, higher costs, and lower quality.   These studies ...

May 07,2014

Turning on Light Bulbs: Project Better Care Works to Improve Primary Care in Memphis

practices to improve primary care with Project Better Care. Project Better Care is a partnership with the ... improved is challenging. Small practices have few resources at their disposal. “This really has to be a ... Project Better Care enables them to do that,” said Frazier. Quality Improvement Coordinator for ...

May 09,2013

Collaboration and Connection: Improving Care Across Settings in Aligning Forces for Quality Communities

/> Ms. Doyle is the Execute Director of Penn Home Care and Hospice Services and the Assistant Dean ... leading the effort with improving and transforming Transitions in Care, a major component of Penn ...