Care About Your Care

Celebrate, inform and spread the work being done in communities across the nation to ensure that patients and providers share responsibility for quality health care Reflect recent policy focused on care transitions as a central point on the care spectrum, in particular ...

Sustaining AF4Q Efforts

cornerstone of regional health care improvement. To do this, Alliances collected and aggregated data across ... quality and value of health care, their approaches and execution varied according to organizational characteristics, market composition, available data, agenda-setting choices by Alliance staff and stakeholders, and ...

May 14,2015

Improving Performance in Practice

primary care. Since its inception in 2006, IPIP has advanced quality care by creating models of practice support that have been emulated in primary care practices throughout the United States. In collaboration with primary care certifying boards (ABMS Member Boards) and specialty societies, REF designed and ...

May 14,2015

ambulatory care settings and hospitals. This inventory was developed by the Shaller Consulting Group, which ... are available to support health care organizations in determining what they need to do to improve ... Jul (Measurement & Reporting, Patient-Centered Care) ...

Jun 13,2013

This research found that although trends in adoption of electronic health record systems across geographic regions converged from 2002 through 2011, adoption continued to lag for non–primary care ... (Ambulatory Care, Health Information Technology (HIT)) ...

Jun 22,2012

The Value of a Good Night’s Sleep

and nurses helps get the patient to the right care setting after the hospital. We’ve found that ... stress on them and their families, and better coordination of care across the continuum in Minnesota. ... Medicaid services to improve quality of care across the country (California, Nevada, Arizona, and Florida), ...

May 09,2013

Over 200 faces in health care quality gathered in Phoenix, AZ on November 18-20, 2009 for the Aligning Forces National Meeting . Attendees reflected on the tremendous progress occurring in Alliances across ... the quality of care provided in the United States. ...

Aug 01,2011

reporting data on patients' experience in the ambulatory care setting, as well as identifies ... care. Accompanying each section is a set of concise messages to assist in making the case to ... (brief) (Patient-Centered Care) ...

Sep 09,2011

Talking Quality and Designing Report Cards

displaying cost and quality data for consumers? To learn about health care costs in order to make informed ... allow consumers to compare the costs of care or the efficiency (or resource use) of providers. In addition to moving toward a more transparent health care system that enables consumer choice, public ...

May 14,2015

Spotlight on Wisconsin

Foundation’s signature effort to lift the quality of health care in 16 diverse communities, reduce racial and ethnic disparities, and provide models for national reform. AF4Q brings together people who get care, give care, and pay for care to work together toward the shared goal of better health and health care ...

Oct 16,2014