Humboldt County, CA Resources
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Quality Field Notes features key lessons learned by regional alliances of clinicians, patients, and payers in Aligning Forces for Quality...

Mar 05, 2014

“We’ve noticed that a lot of groups in the state are working toward the same goal and doing different things. One of our...

Oct 04, 2011

According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), health care spending in the United States is unevenly distributed, with the sickest...

May 09, 2013

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s 16 Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) communities are showing that bringing together the...

Aug 15, 2012

Every day, AF4Q communities are finding new ways of approaching old problems in our health care system. There is no one road we must take...

Nov 14, 2012

Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) is the visionary effort of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to pilot real change in today's...

Jul 31, 2014

The 117 hospitals participating in the AF4Q Hospital Quality Network are committed to improving the quality of care they deliver. The...

Aug 18, 2011

In January 2011, the Community Health Alliance and the Independent Practice Association launched a Primary Care Renewal program to support...

Aug 22, 2011

Bridging the Gap More than 80 participants gathered in Dallas September 19-20 to discuss bridging the gap between health care and...

Oct 22, 2013

Creating Regional Partnerships to Improve Care Transitions   As patients move from one care setting to another, problems such as...

Jul 28, 2014

Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Alliances have implemented or are partnering in care transitions programsto ensure patient care that...

Jul 15, 2014

Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Alliances have implemented or are partnering in care transitions programs to ensure patient care that...

Jul 15, 2014

Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Alliances have implemented or are partnering in care transitions programs to ensure patient care that...

Jul 15, 2014

Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Alliances have implemented or are partnering in care transitions programs to ensure patient care that...

Jul 15, 2014

List of resources available to Alliances and products and activities developed by individual Alliances.

Jun 01, 2012

A growing number of quality improvement projects are enabling patients, families, and advocates to advise and affect decision-making within...

Mar 09, 2012

Patients are the heart of any primary care practice. Patients and practices share a mission to improve patient health—a mission in...

Mar 22, 2013

The Data In 2011, the California Health Care Foundation released a report of surgical rates of 13 procedures for selected hospital...

May 07, 2014

The Humboldt Alliance’s work to improve public reporting and transparency in health quality metrics was recently featured in the...

Sep 18, 2014

The strengths and benefits of Our Pathways to Health, an innovative program of the Community Health Alliance of Humboldt County, were...

Feb 01, 2012

Aligning Forces Humboldt County, CA's framework for Consumer Engagement.

Jul 06, 2012

A Bright Spot product from the May 2013 National Meeting.

May 06, 2013

St. Joseph Hospital’s Care Transition Program, which was highlighted last week during the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Care...

Feb 21, 2013

As part of the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative, the Humboldt County Alliance has developed a two-tiered approach to reducing...

Feb 21, 2013

  Aligning Forces for Quality is, at its heart, about innovation. The communities and people who engage with this unique program are...

May 21, 2012