June 30, 2008 - Pennsylvania's Medicaid agency, the Office of Medical Assistance Programs or OMAP, used the ROI Calculator to examine the impacts of its existing disease management program on specific populations and determine how to enhance future disease management efforts.
State Profile
June 30, 2008 - The Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum, based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is a private, nonprofit organization formed as part of the post-Katrina effort to rebuild the health care system in hurricane-affected areas of the state.
State Profile
June 30, 2008 - The Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation, based in Portland, Oregon, is a nonprofit partnership that brings together physician groups, nurses, hospitals, health plans, purchasers, consumers, and policymakers in an effort to improve the quality of health care in Oregon through community-wide collaboration.
State Profile
June 25, 2008 - The Oklahoma Health Care Authority has contracted the Iowa Foundation for Medical Care to administer the SoonerCare Health Management Program for high-risk Medicaid members and primary care providers.
State Profile
June 25, 2008 - The North Carolina Healthcare Quality Alliance (NCHQA) is a plan to standardize care across the state for five of the most common and costly chronic conditions.
State Profile
May 21, 2008 - North Dakota faces health care challenges common to many rural areas of the U.S., but the state's health care system appears to be performing better than that in many other states--rural or urban. A new Fund report shows how North Dakota is getting it done.
Case Study
March 20, 2008 - A quality improvement program implemented at a large nonprofit health system relied on performance reporting, financial incentives, and a nursing intervention to promote evidence-based care for heart failure patients and to lower readmissions among these patients.
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January 24, 2008 - Hudson River HealthCare's experience in multiple quality improvement collaboratives and in meeting its requirements as a federally qualified health center has proved beneficial in its efforts to provide high-quality, patient-centered care.
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November 29, 2007 - Multidisciplinary improvement teams at a medical center in Charleston, W. Va., implemented new care processes, supported by "change agents" and rapid-response data reporting, that led the hospital to achieve benchmark performance across multiple indicators of health care quality.
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September 20, 2007 - A heart failure program implemented at an independent teaching hospital appears to have lowered readmission and mortality rates for these patients, suggesting that other institutions can improve their health outcomes for this condition.
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August 29, 2007 - Increasing demand for acute care beds led an Ohio health system to establish a network that aimed to improve transitional care between its hospitals and local post-acute care facilities.
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July 12, 2007 - Denver Health, a comprehensive and integrated medical system that is Colorado's largest health care safety-net provider, has a national reputation as a high-performance organization
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April 11, 2007 - A new guide developed by the Center for Health Care Strategies offers actionable steps to help states design and implement physician-level pay-for-performance strategies.
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March 19, 2007 - This case study highlights a community hospital's experience in putting patients and their families at the center of its strategy for improving clinical outcomes, patient experience, and corporate performance.
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March 12, 2007 - A state university created a telehealth network to improve the health of nearby underserved and isolated populations through education, research, and service.
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