Enhancing the Impact of Patient and Family Advisors in Quality Improvement- A Powerful Trifecta: Onboarding Patient Partners, Facilitation Skills Development and Program Evaluation

needed to effectively integrate patients into quality improvement teams in primary care settings, and ... needed to effectively integrate patients into quality improvement teams in primary care settings, and ...

Compendium: Tools for Engaging Patients in Your Practice

Health care providers across the country are working to improve care. Three Aligning Forces for Quality communities have been doing what few others are: integrating patients into their quality improvement efforts. These projects are relatively new. Each community, medical ...

Dec 11,2012

Patient Engagement Toolkit—Full Video

<<Back to Main Menu   Health care providers across the country are working to improve care—full video Three Aligning Forces for Quality communities have been doing what few others are: integrating patients into their quality improvement efforts. These ...

Mar 08,2013

AF4Q Background

initiative in its longstanding commitment to improving the quality of health care Americans receive. With this initiative, 16 grantees across the country worked through multi-stakeholder Alliances to lift the overall quality and value of health care, reduce racial and ethnic disparities in care, and provide models ...

May 14,2015

CHCS: Super-Utilizer Summit

From the Center for Health Care Strategies, a meeting bringing together leaders from super-utilizer and complex care management programs, and as such, the AF4Q super-utilizer alliances will be ... communities and states. From the Center for Health Care Strategies, a summit to help improve ...

What role do consumers and patients play in reducing readmissions?

serve as indicators of poor care, poor coordination of care, or inefficient use of health care ... society, and reducing them is a national priority for improving health care.   4.4 million: ... The York-Adams Care Transitions Coalition in Pennsylvania found three main reasons for readmission : ...

Oct 02,2013

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

Alliances provide comparative data to encourage consumers to use it in making health care ... hospital. “Tips For Getting Quality Care” on Oregon’s homepage provides many helpful resources.    ... performers within and across measures. Explain icons and describe how they were derived.    ...

Oct 02,2013

Insights and Recommendations for Collaboratives: Capacity to Deliver

good as an organization’s ability to execute it. Capacity was a leading concern across the Alliances. There was a consistent need for more time and resources across all Alliances. This is a common challenge ... few had instilled a strong sense of ownership across those stakeholder groups. The result was that ...

May 14,2015

Because Every Patient Counts

care measures were lower than the standard the 77-bed acute care hospital had set. “Our nurses ... Hospital Care ... “Because Every Patient Counts,” which focuses on achieving a perfect measure of ideal care score for every ...

Jun 06,2012

How do I get patients involved in my efforts?

  If you’re looking for ways to get patients involved in improving ambulatory care, you ... relationships. • Be clear about expectations and time commitment.  • Recruit a diverse set ... Consumers and Ambulatory Care Patient Engagement ...

Oct 02,2013