Coalition Quality Improvement Model
How can employers help to improve the quality and safety of health care for their employees and the community? It takes more than benefit incentives, health plans and specific quality improvement tools. It takes an organization of many stakeholders including employers to initiate and manage simultaneous projects. In short it takes a coalition with some very specific capabilities and strong leadership to make this happen.
The NBCH Education and Research (EAR) committee realized this in April 2006 as they considered how to communicate the experience and lessons learned in the three pilot sites in this initiative to more NBCH member coalitions. Drawing on their own experience and that of many other members, the committee has developed a
Proposed Model for Connecting Quality Improvement with
Value Based Healthcare Purchasing at the Community Level
This model is described in detail in the attached paper, Purchaser Coalitions and Building Multi-Stakeholder Collaboratives for Value-Driven Healthcare. The paper poses and answers four questions:
- Why should the quality and value of health care be addressed at the community level?
- Can local employer health coalitions play a role in convening multi-stakeholder collaboratives to improve health care quality?
- What capabilities are essential for local coalitions to succeed at improving health care quality and market-based reform through multi-stakeholder collaborations?
- How should value based purchasing of health care and local quality improvement initiatives interact?
You may have more answers to these questions. NBCH members interested in adding their experience and knowledge to this report are encouraged to contact Jim Mortimer NBCH Project Consultant at j.mortimer@earthlink.net.
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