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The Importance of Transitional Care In Achieving Health Reform

programs and services have been established to improve quality and reduce costs. Based on these findings, ...

Aug 18,2011

Engaging the Patient Perspective Produces Real Change

nonprofit quality improvement organization, launched its Patients and Families as Leaders program.  This ... councils. Patient advisers provide a “reality check” for proposed service changes, much as consumers in ...

Mar 21,2013

Is it Really an Emergency?

non-emergency visits to the ED, resulting in higher quality of care, improved efficiency, and shorter ED wait times. Pat Montoya, director of ACHQ, notes that this public service announcement initiative is part of a ...

Dec 20,2011

Payment Reform Pioneers Deliver on Value

on the value of the services they provide instead of the quantity, in the hopes of both improving ...

May 22,2014

Frontiers in Physician Measurement: Exploring Patient Narratives and Patient-Reported Outcomes for Public Reporting

voice in supporting consumer choice and service improvement in the travel sector and will explore ... voice in supporting consumer choice and service improvement in the travel sector and will explore ...

   

Alliance Roles

Sample Language to Describe Data Sources The Kansas City Quality Improvement Consortium provides ... data, and an organization that represents the entire healthcare system in its efforts to improve ... different perspectives allowed new relationships to develop that are necessary to improve the value of ...

May 14,2015

patients. To improve and sustain high-quality, patient centered and equitable care, the Kansas City Quality Improvement Consortium (KCQIC) partnered with Swope Health Services, a federally qualified health center and one of the city’s major safety net clinics, in the AF4Q Equity Quality Improvement Initiative. ...

May 21,2012

A Patient's Story: Integrating Equity in PCMH

4.5 times higher for black patients than non-black patients. To improve and sustain high-quality, patient centered and equitable care, the Kansas City Quality Improvement Consortium (KCQIC) partnered with Swope Health Services, a federally qualified health center and one of the city’s major safety net ...

May 23,2012

What are best practices for displaying comparative reports on public reporting websites?

Explain why data are missing . Explaining why data are missing improves transparency, thus facilitating ... accepted, languages spoken, etc.   Consumers prefer ...

Oct 02,2013

Increasing Colon Cancer Screening Rates

by the California Center for Rural Policy, is working to improve care through community ... scripted patient-friendly language about colon cancer screening that was subsequently used in two medical ...

Aug 07,2013

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