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Quality Field Notes: Equity

work to transform local health care and provide models for national reform. The latest topic in this series focuses on improving equity in health care. In 2009, the excess health care costs associated with disparities were estimated at $60 billion. A review of health quality data shows race and ethnicity continue ...

Jul 01,2014

health care and provide models for national reform. The latest topic in this series focuses on public ... pioneered the implementation of these types of organizations, and successfully transformed health care ...   In  Greater Boston , Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP) created and launched its ...

May 18,2015

Quality Field Notes: Public Reporting

work to transform local health care and provide models for national reform. The latest topic in this ... successfully transformed health care delivery systems, increased public reporting, and lowered costs in 16 ... for Quality communities:   In Greater Boston , Massachusetts Health Quality Partners ...

May 18,2015

First Statewide Report in Nation to Measure Choosing Wisely® Recommendations Finds Overuse and Widespread Geographic Variation

data representing 3.3 million lives in Washington State and was issued by the Washington Health ... medical leaders from the largest health care organizations in the state. The task force is co-sponsored by ... Choosing Wisely® recommendations finds that patients in Washington may be exposed to care they don’t ...

Sep 26,2014

Small Tests of Change Grow to Big Results in Reduction of ED Overuse

care coordination—helped spark Milwaukee County’s five health care systems to join forces to address these pressing issues. The health systems created the Milwaukee Health Care Partnership in 2007, ... for underserved populations and achieve better outcomes and better health care at a lower cost,” said ...

Dec 20,2012

Engaging and Sustaining

the area to form the region’s first business coalition to address health care issues—the Business ... employees to improve their health and health care. The group discusses value-based purchasing, ... involved in health care, this group [BHAG] has the greatest opportunity for sustainability because of the ...

May 07,2014

The Evolution of Aligning Forces

their focus on reducing health care costs and spending to promote not just high-quality health care, but more importantly, high-value health care. In addition, each Alliance has developed a set of community-specific cost goals to measure its continued cost work. The Alliances’ efforts around health care costs ...

May 14,2015

signature effort of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to raise the quality of health care in targeted communities throughout the United States.  This community-centric approach to solving problems in our health care system is already providing stories of success, or bright spots, that can serve as springboards ...

Jan 26,2012

Making the Business Case for Payment and Delivery Reform

In order to support improvements in both health care delivery and payment systems, individuals and organizations that purchase health care services need a clear business ... payment health care providers may need to support the change in care. Health care providers also need a ...

   

SCPA Improves Quality and Reduces Super-Utilizer Re-Hospitalizations

Wed, 2014-03-26 (All day) Certain patients present a health care conundrum. “Super-utilizers” account for only five percent of patients, but they accrue more than 60 percent of health care ... stays, resulting in costly health care, but not necessarily good-quality care. For example, one ...

Mar 27,2014

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