Stories from the field

Your colleagues and other health care experts around the country are working to improve health care quality on a daily basis. Hear what inspires them, what challenges they have overcome, and what they have learned about improving health care quality and reducing racial and ethnic disparities in care.

Quality

Ashish K. Jha, M.D., M.P.H.
Massachusetts



Assistant professor of health policy at the Harvard School of Public Health, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and staff physician at VA Boston Healthcare System and Brigham and Women's Hospital. Jha contributes significantly to RWJF work to reduce health care disparities, especially focusing on organizations that provide care for underserved populations, the quality of care provided by health care systems and the impact of clinical information systems on the quality, safety and efficiency of health care.


Diane Giese, M.P.P.
Washington


Director of communication and development of the Puget Sound Health Alliance and the project director for RWJF's Aligning Forces for Quality initiative in the Puget Sound region that seeks to improve quality and efficiency while reducing the rate of health care cost increases.


Jim Chase, M.H.A.
Minnesota


Executive director of Minnesota Community Measurement, the lead organization for RWJF's Aligning Forces for Quality initiative in Minnesota. Founded by the Minnesota Medical Association and Minnesota health plans, Minnesota Community Measurement promotes public reporting of health care quality information.


Lisa Letourneau, M.D., M.P.H.
Maine


Senior director of MaineHealth's system-wide clinical quality improvement initiative and a key player in establishing Quality Counts, the leadership team for RWJF's Aligning Forces for Quality initiative in Maine that works to coordinate disparate efforts across the state that support local, patient-centered and coordinated systems of care.

Aligning Forces for Quality communities

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.

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: