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Quality Improvement in Medicaid Managed Care This article describes the experience of a series of Quality Improvement (QI) efforts involving collaborations among managed care plans that are heavily involved in providing care to Medicaid enrollees. Published In: Journal on Quality and Patient Safety	Journal articles	11/20/2009
Health System Reform and Antitrust Law This policy brief addresses antitrust considerations that arise in health system transformation aimed at producing greater clinical integration and greater levels of information about the quality and cost of care.	Issue and policy briefs	11/04/2009
Utilizing a Pediatric Emergency Preparedness Toolkit Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Implemented use of the "Care of Children in the Emergency Department: Guidelines for Preparedness Implementation" toolkit to improve the quality of care provided to children	Promising practices from the field	08/11/2009
Case Study: Medicare Performance Payments to Hospitals (from Talking About Quality Part 3: How We Get There—Payment Reform) Add to my presentation E-mail Published In: Talking About Quality Part 3: How We Get There	Slides	06/30/2009
Urgent Matters Urgent Matters aimed to relieve emergency department overcrowding, improve patient care and increase patient satisfaction.	Grant Results Reports	02/24/2009
The National Health Plan Collaborative Toolkit Resources, best practices and case studies to help other health plans join the effort to reduce disparities.	Toolkits	09/05/2008
Expecting Success Toolkit Explore promising practices and lessons learned from Expecting Success to reduce disparities in cardiac care.	Video, Toolkits	06/05/2008
PACE Program Tools and Training to Improve Pediatric Asthma Management by Clinicians The Physician Asthma Care Education (PACE) program provides education for clinicians on how to use the best current therapies for asthma, and on how to better communicate with and educate patients so that they can take advantage of the clinicians' recommendations.	Toolkits, Promising practices from publications	06/04/2008
Simulating Exercises to Improve a Hospital's Door-to-Balloon Time Staff conducted simulated PCI exercises to improve hospital operations with volunteer "patients" going through every step of the process, from the emergency room door to the catheterization lab.	Promising practices from the field	06/04/2008
A No-Tech Solution for Reducing Hospital Bed Turnaround Time Staff developed a simple communication system between housekeeping and nurses by using jars with color-coded slips of paper that allowed staff to easily track beds that were available or that needed cleaning. The goal of this intervation was to improve patient flow by...	Promising practices from the field	06/04/2008

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