Americans receive only about half of the recommended care they should receive. Adopting quality improvement strategies, reducing racial and ethnic disparities in care, and changing how care is delivered at the local level can improve the care all Americans receive.
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October 28, 2009 | Issue Brief
Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) tests innovative strategies for improving health care at the community level. These snapshots of success highlight one activity from each of the original 14 AF4Q communities and outline the steps involved, lessons learned and results of the activity.
March 12, 2012 | Program Result Report
From 1997 to 2002, researchers with the RAND Corporation assessed the quality of care delivered to a large sample of patients living in 12 U.S. communities. This work provided the first national snapshot of health care quality in the United States.
March 12, 2012 | Program Result Report
That Americans get only half of recommended care is not an easy message to deliver - or for people to receive. RAND researchers undertook an intensive communications campaign in hopes that their "bad news" would spur changes in health care policy.
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Putting the Chronic Care Model into practice with residency programs in California.
July 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
This brief highlights two report card initiatives for hospitals and primary care physicians that can be considered success stories.
August 8, 2011 | Video/Story
Aligning Forces for Quality takes root in Humboldt County, Calif.
July 5, 2011 | Story
"There's that stigma where the doctor is some almighty person, and the nurse is in more of a subservient role."
August 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Incentives to improve the quality of care provided in Medicaid managed care plans are increasingly common and take many forms. One is a pay-for-performance program that automatically assigns new enrollees to better-performing Medicaid plans in California.
October 1, 2007 | Issue Brief
The October 2007 issue of Charting Nursing's Future examines facts and controversies about nurse staffing policy.
Story
Central Valley, Calif. community is among 50 sites making changes in national initiative to prevent obesity.