What are some ways consumers can help improve health care?

members to help ensure that patient-centered medical homes meet patient and family needs. Consumers have ... patient centered. Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP) is a broad coalition working to improve ... As the end users of health care, consumers are in a unique position to understand what ...

Oct 02,2013

Making Patient Experience Meaningful

delivering patient-centered care. The best and often only way to determine how providers are performing on ... learned about ambulatory patient experience of care? Since its inception, the AF4Q program has explicitly called for the inclusion of measures of patient experience with ambulatory care alongside measures of ...

May 14,2015

care, patient-centered care, value-added processes, and vitality and teamwork). ... programs to teach and support hospitals in making patient care safer, provide technical assistance to ... (Transforming Care at the Bedside) in its contract. As it turns out, TCAB is the perfect methodology for meeting ...

May 21,2012

Wood Johnson Foundation's Aligning Forces for Quality initiative, focuses on improving care by measuring and improving patient-centered primary care for its residents with chronic medical conditions. ... Cuyahoga County, Ohio had fewer hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions between 2009 and ...

Jan 30,2013

How do you explain the idea of “high-quality health care"?

knowledgeable.”    We define high-quality health care as care that is effective, safe, patient-centered, timely, efficient, equitable, and delivered by professionals who are respectful, communicate ... You hear the phrase all the time. It is our end goal. Yet, consumers define quality of care ...

Oct 02,2013

Bringing Consumers to the Table

article reviews the available evidence on patient-centered care, such as the positive effects of engaging ... leadership of organizational design and governance to yield patient-centered policies and procedures. ... Early Lessons From Four ‘Aligning Forces For Quality’ Communities Bolster The Case For Patient-Centered ...

May 14,2015

Consumer Open Discussion Call

practical/patient-centered? For those who have successfully collaborated in their communities, what advice do you have ... practical/patient-centered? For those who have successfully collaborated in their communities, what advice do you have ... February call, I'd like to discuss partnerships between patients and health care providers to improve ...

How do practice coaches work with patient partners (patients who are engaged in QI efforts) to improve ambulatory care?

Early Lessons from Four AF4Q Communities Bolster the Case for Patient-Centered Care ... South Central Pennsylvania operate projects in which patient volunteers and their primary care ... Compendium-Engaging Patients in Ambulatory Care (Ambulatory Care, Provider - Ambulatory ...

Oct 17,2013

Primary Care Use Driving Down Costs, Improving Care

populations and having highest-level national recognition for patient-centered care. Patients were ... new health care coverage program called CarePlus by the end of 2013. Several AF4Q partners in the Better Health Greater Cleveland Alliance enrolled 28,294 uninsured patients in CarePlus, with a goal ...

Jul 31,2014

PCPs drive reduction in Cleveland hospitalizations

care transitions and patient-centered medical home accreditation.    Public reports can be ... Hospital Care ... the robustness of primary care in the region. This reduction in hospitalizations has saved an ...

Apr 15,2013