In 14 communities throughout the country, Aligning Forces for Quality seeks to lift the quality of health and health care by teaming up with those who get care, give care and pay for care. Explore what our communities are doing to improve health care quality.
Cincinnati, Ohio
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Leadership Team: Health Improvement Collaborative of Greater Cincinnati, Cincinnati Aligning Forces for Quality
Web site: www.the-collaborative.org
Phone: (513) 531-0267
Fax: (513) 531-1838
Program contact: Craig Brammer
Phone: (513) 558-2772
E-mail: craig.brammer@uc.edu
The Health Improvement Collaborative of Greater Cincinnati leads Cincinnati Aligning Forces for Quality (Cincinnati AF4Q). Established in 1992, the Collaborative is a diverse coalition of health care stakeholders representing the hospital, physician, employer, insurer, government, education and consumer sectors. Its mission is to stimulate significant and measurable improvement in the health status of the people in Greater Cincinnati through collaborative leadership.
Cincinnati AF4Q seeks to enhance local infrastructure and to align key drivers of overall health care improvement. The initiative has identified diabetes as its initial condition of focus, later to be followed by additional conditions. Programmatic aims include aligning diabetes care messaging among employers, health plans, providers and community-based organizations; initiating quality improvement among primary care providers; and initiating region-wide public reporting of selected primary care practices' quality-related outcomes.
Aligning Forces for Quality communities
Our areas of focus
Aligning Forces for Quality applies a wealth of resources, expertise and training to effect real results in health care quality. Take a closer look at the focuses of our work:
Hear what colleagues and health care experts around the country, including Craig Brammer, Diane Giese and Marshall Chin, have learned about improving health care quality and reducing racial and ethnic disparities in care.