Making Health Care Equitable For All

Tue, 2014-11-18 Health care leaders in Memphis are making strides to reduce long-standing racial and ethnic disparities in the care residents receive. These efforts, which range from improved hospital data collection to efforts by physician practices to offer more one-on-one ...

Nov 18,2014

Cleveland Providers Work Together to Improve Care

Health Greater Cleveland began publicly releasing information on the quality of local health care five ... around, participating medical groups put a premium on cooperating to improve care for diabetes, high blood pressure and heart failure patients. Today, Cleveland hospitals and medical practices document quality gaps ...

Mar 28,2014

Crafting a Measuring Stick For Health Care Costs

Thu, 2014-08-14 (All day) Minnesota health care leaders are building on quality measurement and improvement efforts—including reductions in avoidable hospital readmissions that ... individual health care episode costs. These efforts are led by MN Community Measurement, one of RWJF’s ...

Aug 14,2014

Teaming up for Patient-Centered Care

These visits may take place in the primary care practice, in the hospital, the patient’s home, or other ... 2013-11-04 (All day) “The best way out of fragmented care is how we broker the architecture of care coordination,” said Dr. Barbara Crowley of Maine General Health. The Aligning Forces ...

Oct 30,2013

Bridging the Gap Between Health Care and Population Health

There is a growing consensus that to achieve the goals of reducing health care costs and improving outcomes in the U.S., traditional health care system stakeholders will need to look outside the “four walls” of hospitals and doctors’ offices to partner with community health focused ...

Pausing to Reduce Readmissions

Hospital Care ... for the patient, alternatives could be explored. The hospital delay the discharge until the care ... hospital staffs in order to avoid hospital readmissions. York & Gettyburg Hospital have implemented a ...

Jun 19,2013

Southern Maine Medical Center Improves Team Communication

Hospital Care ... (Hospital Care, Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB)) ... communicating critical information about patient care needs, once lasted approximately 22 minutes on the SMMC ...

Jul 16,2012

Sharing Data to Raise the Value of Care

Ambulatory Care Cost & Efficiency Thu, 2014-07-24 (All day) An Oregon health care organization has been ... initiative. The Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation, one of RWJF’s Aligning Forces for Quality ...

Jul 24,2014

Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Alliances have implemented or are partnering in care transitions programs to ensure patient care that is coordinated across care settings. This brief highlights the ... so they can collaborate to reduce hospital readmissions.   To read the rest of ...

Jul 15,2014

Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Alliances have implemented or are partnering in care transitions programs to ensure patient care that is coordinated across care settings. This brief highlights the ... so they can collaborate to reduce hospital readmissions.   To read the rest of this ...

Jul 15,2014