Spotlight on Washington

of antibiotics, and patient experience. Hospitals are evaluated on how they perform on care, for ... 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 ...

May 28,2014

National TCAB Holds Final Meeting

Hospital Care ... Teams' Presentations . (Hospital Care, Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB)) ... 25-27 in San Francisco for their final meeting. Among the 121 attendees were the hospital team ...

Aug 08,2012

& Efficiency, Equity, Hospital Care, Measurement & Reporting, Patient-Centered Care, Payment ... Every day, AF4Q communities are finding new ways of approaching old problems in our health care system. There is no one road we must take to reach our goal of improving health care quality. How much simpler ...

Nov 14,2012

Creating Regional Partnerships to Improve Care Transitions

being readmitted to the hospital and tend to have worse health outcomes. Care transitions coaches can identify mental health problems that the hospital staff and other health care providers may have overlooked ... readmitted to the hospital. Patients may encounter gaps in care when transferred to an SNF—for instance, ...

Jul 28,2014

NPO Shares Success of TCAB Teams Nationally

Hospital Care ... the slidedeck here ! (Hospital Care, Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB), Nursing) ... Orleans, Louisiana form May 16-18. At the event the many successes of the Transforming Care at the Bedside ...

May 25,2012

Wenzel's story of how United Hospital—part of the Allina Hospitals and Clinics system—has successfully ... pain management, the hospital has seen greater increases in its HCAHPS pain management composite score compared to other Allina metro hospitals. In September 2010, the top-box HCAHPS score for pain management ...

Apr 13,2012

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

develop, test and implement changes that will dramatically improve care on hospital medical/surgical units. ... Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) is a multiphase program of the Robert Wood ... affect the quality of patient care. Public ...

Sep 20,2011

Spotlight on Oregon

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 ...

Jul 29,2014

A Community's Approach to Reducing Readmissions

Mon, 2013-02-11 (All day) As part of AF4Q, hospitals, ambulatory care ... hospital readmission are important outcome measures for assessing the performance of the health care ... of health care resources. Regardless of the cause, unplanned hospital readmissions in the United ...

Feb 11,2013