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September 12, 2012 | Journal Article
In the Medicare Physician Group Practice Demonstration (PGPD), 10 accountable care organization (ACO) physician groups were eligible to receive a portion of savings generated if they also showed improvement on 32 quality measures. The Centers for Me ...
October 1, 2012 | Issue Brief/Infographic
In communities nationwide, AF4Q alliances are developing interventions and pilot-testing techniques to improve the way ambulatory care is delivered and fundamentally changing their local health systems.
December 1, 2010 | Survey/Poll
The National Survey of Small and Medium-Sized Physician Practices (NSSMPP) provides information about physician practices in the Albuquerque region.
October 1, 2009 | Survey/Poll
As part of the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) evaluation efforts, evaluators conducted the National Survey of Small and Medium-Sized Physician Practices (NSSMPP) in AF4Q sites between March 2010 and August 2010. The NSSMPP, funded by the Robert ...
March 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
Puget Sound Health Alliance (the Alliance) released the Community Checkup, its first public report containing quality measures for physician clinics in the area. This issue brief describes the key features of that process, including preparing the report, content, format, dissemination and key lessons learned by the Puget Sound Health Alliance.
January 27, 2011 | Program Result Report
Prescription for Health tested the use of tools and evidence-based models in primary care to counsel patients to change four leading behaviors associated with premature death: smoking, risky drinking, unhealthy diet, and physical inactivity.
October 15, 2009 | Program Result Report
Rewarding Results: Aligning Payments with High-Quality Health Care was a national program of RWJF and California HealthCare Foundation that tested the use of financial incentives to improve the quality of health care.
July 11, 2008 | Program Result Report
Project Access, which provides access to specialty and chronic health care for low-income uninsured people of Buncombe County, N.C., expanded its services from August 1994 through July 1998.
January 31, 2004 | Program Result Report
From 1994 to 1995, St. Vincent de Paul Village in San Diego, Calif., expanded the services provided by its medical center, which is part of St. Vincent de Paul Village's extensive homeless shelter.
January 16, 2004 | Program Result Report
Blue Hill Memorial Hospital Foundation in Blue Hill, Maine developed its fledgling affiliated multi-site group practice, Peninsula Primary Care Association, for underserved residents of Hancock County.