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.
Kansas City, Missouri
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Leadership Team: Kansas City Quality Improvement Consortium
Web site: www.kcqic.org
Phone: (816) 453-4424
Fax: (816) 453-4107
Program contact: Catherine Davis
Phone: (816) 453-4424
E-mail: cdavis20@ford.com
The Kansas City Quality Improvement Consortium (KCQIC) leads the Greater Kansas City area's Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative. Established in 2000 by the UAW-Ford Community Health Care Initiative and local health care stakeholders, KCQIC brings together an unprecedented commitment of resources and expertise among physicians, health plans, medical societies, medical schools, quality improvement organizations and community organizations. The KCQIC team creates a forum for health practitioners to exchange ideas about proven practices for improving patient outcomes in the community. KCQIC promotes quality health care through collaboration and strategic leadership, education and training and dissemination of information and tools.
The AF4Q goals of KCQIC are to equip patients to make informed health care choices, engage physicians in public reporting and other processes to improve the quality of health care for patients, and increase the role that family and community resources play in helping people with their health care selections and services.
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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:
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