Community Alliances

Willamette Valley, Oregon

Aligning Forces for Quality/Willamette Valley

The Americans for Quality Health Care Team works with the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Alliances.

AF4Q is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) signature effort to lift the overall quality of health care in targeted communities, reduce racial and ethnic disparities and provide models for national reform.

AF4Q asks the people who get care, give care and pay for care to work together toward common, fundamental objectives to lead to better care.

Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation (the Alliance) leads the area's AF4Q initiative. For more information on the Alliance, visit their community snapshot or their web site.

Community Information on Quality in Willamette Valley

This section includes various organizations that provide quality information or are engaged in quality work, or both. To suggest an organization that should be included in this section, please contact project staff at qualitycarenow@nationalpartnership.org.

Acumentra Health
Acumentra Health is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality and effectiveness of health care. They collaborate with practitioners, providers, health plans, public agencies, and private organizations on a wide range of health care improvement projects and programs.

The Leapfrog Group
The Leapfrog Group is a national public-private partnership that works to reduce medical errors and improve patient safety. The Leapfrog Group provides the latest hospital patient safety performance results in Oregon.

Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Care Systems (OAHHS)
OAHHS is a statewide, non-profit trade association that works closely with local and national government leaders, business and citizen coalitions and other professional health care organizations to enhance and promote community health.

Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation
The Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation is a broadbased non-profit collaborative that provides both a forum for sharing information and a mechanism to identify strategic projects for improving health care through community based activities.

Oregon Health Decisions
Oregon Health Decisions is an independent, non-profit, grassroots organization that gives people an opportunity to become involved and have a voice in health care policy. The organization also provides materials to assist people in making better-informed decisions regarding their individual health care needs and wishes.

Oregon Patient Safety Commission
The Oregon Patient Safety Commission aims to improve patient safety by reducing the risk of serious adverse events occurring in Oregon's health care system and by encouraging a culture of patient safety.

Oregon Health Policy Commission and the Office for Oregon Health Policy and Research
The organizations jointly released “Hospital Quality Indicators,” the state's fourth annual web-based report on volume and death rates in hospitals for selected procedures and medical conditions.

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