Activities in each of the 16 Aligning Forces for Quality communities are guided by a multistakeholder alliance of consumers, providers, and payers. An article in Health Affairs describes how the Aligning Forces for Quality investments have evolved since the initiative’s launch in 2006 and offers some early lessons learned.
A report from the Urban Institute provides an overview of performance measurement in U.S. health care, and includes policy recommendations aimed at improving the performance measurement enterprise.
As health care costs continue to affect employers’ bottom lines, growing evidence that payment reform strategies can help control costs is spurring employer purchasers to switch how they pay for care. A set of briefs from AcademyHealth explain different strategies, share results and lessons learned from employers pioneering these projects, and offer tips for employers.
In this set of papers, American Enterprise Institute scholars consider various market-based approaches to reforming the fee-for-service Medicare program—the “800-pound gorilla of American health care.”
A report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows that hospitals and their community allies made little progress from 2008 to 2010 at reducing hospital readmissions for elderly patients. The report also chronicles a series of in-depth interviews with patients and providers that shed light on why patients end up back in the hospital and what hospitals, doctors, nurses, and others are doing to limit avoidable readmissions.
While the need to address racial and ethnic disparities in care is well known, few strategies for reducing disparities have been studied systematically. A supplement to the Journal of General Internal Medicine, organized by researchers at Finding Answers, offers organizations a new "roadmap" for reducing disparities.
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April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Quality measurement and reporting have emerged as important tools that providers, health plans, and other stakeholders can use to identify gaps in quality and focus resources on improving care.
October 25, 2007 | Program Result Report
Service credit banking programs seek to help elderly people remain healthy, independent, and in their homes by enlisting volunteer caregivers to provide supportive services.
December 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
In 1995-1996, Linda Burhansstipanov, MSPH, DrPH at AMC Cancer Research Center in Denver, Colo., implemented and evaluated the effectiveness of Native American Women's Wellness through Awareness.
September 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
Two organizations worked to develop administrative no-fault malpractice compensation systems in Colorado and Utah and to collect and analyze medical-injury data for the two states.
March 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
From 1988 through 2003, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) supported the Development and Implementation of a Quality Improvement System for Home Health Care. The effort comprised six projects and was designed to improve the quality of home health, long-term and ambulatory care, and to study methods to improve health care quality in these settings.
September 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
The Rocky Mountain Health Maintenance Organization developed and implemented a pilot service-credit-banking program in Mesa County, Colo., called the Time Bank.
September 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
Seniors' Resource Center, a human services agency in Colorado, opened two satellite adult day programs to attract new clients: one in South Jefferson County, and another serving the rural/mountain communities around Evergreen, Colo.
July 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
The program developed and implemented community-based interventions that would address sociocultural barriers to health care for Hispanic Americans.
July 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
The Latin American Research and Service Agency, located in Denver, implemented community-based interventions to address sociocultural barriers to health care for Hispanic Americans.
July 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe participated in the Hispanic Health Needs Assessment during the first year of the program.