Published Online: December 31, 1969

Issue: The Aligning Forces for Quality Initiative: Early Lessons From Efforts to Improve Healthcare Quality at the Community Level

ARTICLES

Creating and Sustaining Change: Early Insights From Aligning Forces

Claire B. Gibbons, PhD, MPH; and Anne F. Weiss, MPP

Getting the Structure Right for Communitywide Healthcare Improvement

Gordon Mosser, MD

Lessons for Reducing Disparities in Regional Quality Improvement Efforts

Scott C. Cook, PhD; Anna P. Goddu, MSc; Amanda R. Clarke, MPH; Robert S. Nocon, MHS; Kevin W. McCullough, MJ; and Marshall H. Chin, MD, MPH

The Imperative to Promote Collaborative Consumer Engagement: Lessons From the Aligning Forces for Quality Initiative

Debra L. Ness, MS

That Was Then, This Is Now

Lisa A. Simpson, MB, BCh, MPH, FAAP

“When Aligning Forces started, federal policy was a desert. Now it’s a greenhouse.”

Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives Needed Now More Than Ever: Program Directors’ Perspectives

Randall D. Cebul, MD; Susanne E. Dade, MPA; Lisa M. Letourneau, MD, MPH; and Alan Glaseroff, MD, ABFM

The Aligning Forces for Quality Initiative: Background and Evolution From 2005 to 2012

Dennis P. Scanlon, PhD; Jeff Beich, PhD; Jeffrey A. Alexander, PhD; Jon B. Christianson, PhD; Romana Hasnain-Wynia, PhD; Megan C. McHugh, PhD; and Jessica N. Mittler, PhD

Barriers and Strategies to Align Stakeholders in Healthcare Alliances

Larry R. Hearld, PhD; Jeffrey A. Alexander, PhD; Jeff Beich, PhD; Jessica N. Mittler, PhD; and Jennifer L. O’Hora, BA

The Aligning Forces for Quality Initiative: Background and Evolution From 2005 to 2012 - eAppendix

Midterm Observations and Recommendations From the Evaluation of the AF4Q Initiative

Jeffrey A. Alexander, PhD; Dennis P. Scanlon, PhD; Megan C. McHugh, PhD; Jon B. Christianson, PhD; Jessica N. Mittler, PhD; Romana Hasnain-Wynia, PhD; and Jeff Beich, PhD

Producing Public Reports of Physician Quality at the Community Level: The Aligning Forces for Quality Initiative Experience

Jon B. Christianson, PhD; Karen M. Volmar, JD, MPH; Bethany W. Shaw, MHA; and Dennis P. Scanlon, PhD

Community-Level Interventions to Collect Race/Ethnicity and Language Data to Reduce Disparities

Romana Hasnain-Wynia, PhD; Deidre M. Weber, BA; Julie C. Yonek, MPH; Javiera Pumarino, BA; and Jessica N. Mittler, PhD

Approaches to Improving Healthcare Delivery by Multi-stakeholder Alliances

Megan C. McHugh, PhD; Jillian B. Harvey, MPH; Dasha Aseyev, BS; Jeffrey A. Alexander, PhD; Jeff Beich, PhD; and Dennis P. Scanlon, PhD

Evaluating a Community-Based Program to Improve Healthcare Quality: Research Design for the Aligning Forces for Quality Initiative

Dennis P. Scanlon, PhD; Jeffrey A. Alexander, PhD; Jeff Beich, PhD; Jon B. Christianson, PhD; Romana Hasnain-Wynia, PhD; Megan C. McHugh, PhD; Jessica N. Mittler, PhD; Yunfeng Shi, PhD; and Laura J. Bodenschatz, MSW

Using Websites to Engage Consumers in Managing Their Health and Healthcare

Jessica N. Mittler, PhD; Karen M. Volmar, JD, MPH; Bethany W. Shaw, MHA; Jon B. Christianson, PhD; and Dennis P. Scanlon, PhD

AUTHOR INDEX

Participating Faculty: The Aligning Forces for Quality Initiative: Early Lessons From Efforts to Improve Healthcare Quality at the Community Level

INTRODUCTION

Letter From the Guest Editor

David Blumenthal, MD, MPP
Samuel O. Thier Professor of Medicine and Professor of Health Care Policy Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners HealthCare System and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

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