Collaboratives Overview
Through our work in Aligning Forces for Quality, we can improve the quality of health care by supporting ambulatory practices and hospitals in how they can make improvements in caring for patients. Hospital physicians, nurses, and front-line staff engaged in AF4Q quality improvement (QI) collaboratives are provided with tools and resources to implement and test innovative strategies targeted to:
- reduce hospital readmissions
- increase emergency department throughput
- improve language services
- empower nurses at the bedside.
In the ambulatory setting, physician leaders are working with AF4Q to build an infrastructure to support ambulatory QI in regional practices.
The following sections can be used as a springboard to learn more about these collaboratives.