In 15 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.
AF4Q National Program Office
The Aligning Forces for Quality national program office (NPO) oversees and directs assistance to the communities participating in the initiative. The activities are designed to foster and spread improvement using strategies to engage the multistakeholder teams in the participating 15 communities as well as the broader health care market in each community. The NPO helps the Foundation monitor and manage the initiative and is responsible for fostering communication and collaboration to support the community teams and their work.
Bruce Siegel, M.D., M.P.H., serves as director of the NPO. The NPO is located within the Department of Health Policy at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.
Biography of Bruce Siegel, M.D., M.P.H.
Bruce Siegel serves as director of Aligning Forces for Quality. He has overall responsibility for the management and execution of program activities, and directs other technical assistance activities related to equitable health care, building on the achievements of Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care, an RWJF national program intended to improve the quality of health care provided to minority populations in the United States. Siegel is a research professor in the Department of Health Policy at The George Washington University Medical Center School of Public Health and Health Services. There he also directs the RWJF national program Urgent Matters, focused on the health care safety net and emergency departments.
Siegel has previously held the positions of New Jersey Commissioner of Health, president of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation and president of Tampa General Healthcare. In addition, he served as a director of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, as a senior fellow at New School University, and as an advisor to the World Bank, hospitals, hospital associations, philanthropies, state governments and pharmaceutical firms. He is a member of the Board of Stewardship Trustees of Catholic Health Initiatives.
Siegel received an A.B. degree from Princeton University, an M.D. from Cornell University Medical College, and an M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. He is board certified in preventive medicine. He has written and spoken extensively on health care administration, policy and public health issues. He and his wife, Maura Cooper M.D., reside with their two daughters in Bethesda, Md.
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 Scott Cook, Elliott Fisher and Bruce Siegel, have learned about improving health care quality and reducing racial and ethnic disparities in care.