Aligning Forces for Quality Improving Health and Health Care Across America.
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Aligning Forces for Quality
Improving Health and Health Care Across
America
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The State of Health Care Quality
• Despite spending more on health care than any other country, the U.S. lags behind most major industrialized nations in many important aspects of the health care we provide.
• Across America, there are serious gaps between the health care that people should receive and the care they actually receive.
• Good health care and bad health care is being delivered in hospitals and in doctors’ offices.
• There are too many mistakes, too much miscommunication and too much inequity in our health care system.
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What is Aligning Forces for Quality?
• Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s signature effort in its longstanding commitment to improve the quality of health care that Americans receive.
• The goal is to lift the overall quality of health care in targeted communities, reduce racial and ethnic disparities and provide models for national reform.
• While health care quality is a national problem, health care is delivered locally, and fixing it requires local action.
• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is working with those who get care, give care and pay for care to deliver lasting change across entire communities.
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AF4Q Areas of Focus
• Improving quality across all settings • Engaging consumers • Measuring provider performance • Increasing public reporting • Engaging nurses to be active
leaders • Addressing inequities • Overcoming language barriers
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Accomplishing the Goals of AF4Q
AF4Q is working to achieve its goals by:
• Helping physicians improve the quality of care for patients.
• Engaging people to become better partners with their doctors and make informed choices about their care.
• Improving care across different settings, with a special focus on the central role that nursing plays.
• Reducing inequality in care for patients of different races and ethnicities by measuring gaps in care and targeting strategies for improvement.
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2008 AF4Q Communities
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AF4Q in Our Community
• NOTE: AF4Q community leaders to insert language about current goals and activities.
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Next Steps
• NOTE: AF4Q community leaders to insert language about immediate next steps at the local level.