Regional Health Quality Improvement Coalitions: Lessons Across the Life Cycle

Donna O. Farley ; Marla C. Haims ; Donna J. Keyser ; Stuart S. Olmsted ; Sherilyn Curry ; Melony E. Sorbero

RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation

关键词: Health and Health Care;   

ISBN  :  0-8330-3502-9
RP-ID  :  TR-102-RWJ

学科分类：自然科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: RAND Corporation Published Research

【 摘 要 】

Regional health quality improvement coalitions have aimed to promote and coordinate improvement across various levels and types of health care organizations in particular geographic areas. However, the general factors involved in coalitions’ successes or failures are largely unknown. This report looks in depth at four such coalitions — the Cleveland Health Quality Choice Program (now defunct), Minnesota’s Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement, the Rochester Health Commission, and the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative — and seeks to find common issues and conditions that influence a coalition’s sustainability and its success in improving regional health care. The authors review the four groups’ general history and highlight issues that arose as the initiatives progressed. From these case study findings, the authors build a conceptual model and review a related set of observations and testable hypotheses regarding factors that may contribute to a coalition’s success.