Driving Health Care Transformation in Communities Across America 2012
August 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
16 communities. 37 million people. One goal.
Healthy Communities
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Measuring the Health of Communities
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Challenges to measuring population health exist, but as these authors note, attempting to measure the overall health of populations allows public health leaders to better allocate resources to areas of greatest need.
Challenges of Capacity Building in Multisector Community Health Alliances
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines challenges to the success of health alliances between insurers, providers, hospitals and patients. While health alliances hold potential to improve health care for chronic conditions, health alliances struggle to achieve meaningful change in a short period of time.
Second Round of Grantees for Public Health Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN) Program Announced
November 23, 2009 | Video/Story
Initiative is developing evidence about the most effective ways of organizing, financing and delivering public health services.
Creating and Sustaining Change
September 1, 2012 | Journal Article
At the midpoint of the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative, the authors report on the learnings and challenges experienced in the initiative thus far.
Getting the Structure Right for Community-Wide Healthcare Improvement
September 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Multi-stakeholder regional alliances have generally been successful with public reporting, but they have struggled with quality improvement. Regional health information exchanges have generally not used multi-stakeholder governance and have often be ...
Lessons for Reducing Disparities in Regional Quality Improvement Efforts
September 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Regional efforts to improve quality of care face particular challenges when addressing racial and ethnic disparities in health. Diverse populations have different needs and barriers, and the same quality improvement (QI) intervention can affect them ...
The Imperative to Promote Collaborative Consumer Engagement
September 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Achieving a meaningful definition and shared understanding of consumer engagement is a critical step in making real progress as the nation works to transform its health care system to make care more efficient, affordable, effective, and patient-cent ...
That Was Then, This Is Now
September 1, 2012 | Journal Article
A focus on multi-stakeholder coalitions as a platform for change is not a new concept; however, it has rarely been supported, tested, and refined to the extent that the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) communities have done. This is a singular ach ...
The Aligning Forces for Quality Initiative
September 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF’s) Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative is the largest privately funded community-based quality improvement initiative to date, providing funds and technical assistance (TA) to 16 multi-stakeholder ...