Quality

As noted in the Institute of Medicine’s seminal report Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21^st Century, “health care today harms too frequently and routinely fails to deliver its potential benefits.” For over a decade, foundations have been showcasing to the field that improving health care quality is both needed and possible. GIH recognizes that this work is now an integral part of the health reform law and that bridging the “quality chasm” will require change at all levels of our health care system. 

What's New

• Kellogg Foundation Announces $2 Million Investment in SeeChange Health
  June 2013
  The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has announced a $2 million investment in SeeChange Health, a leader in delivering value-based benefit design solutions for employers.
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• Community Health Teams Are Helping Medicaid Programs Manage Care for High-Need Patients
  May 2013
  In a new report from The Commonwealth Fund and the National Academy for State Health Policy, authors examine multidisciplinary community health team programs in eight states that serve a combined 2.1 million Medicaid beneficiaries. The report sheds light on how the programs came about and how they operate, what their sources of financing are, and how they use data to assess effectiveness.
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• HHS Offers Consumers an Unprecedented Look at Hospital Charges
  May 2013
  The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced a three-part initiative that for the first time gives consumers information on what hospitals charge. New data released today show significant variation across the country and within communities in what hospitals charge for common inpatient services.
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Spotlight on Quality

• IMS Health Study Identifies Savings from Using Medicines More Responsibly
  June 2013
  The U.S. spends $200 billion each year — about 8 percent of the nation’s health care costs — on medical care stemming from improper or unnecessary use of prescription drugs and much of those costs result from unneeded hospitalizations or doctor visits, according to a study by the IMS Health’s Institute for Healthcare Informatics.
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Publications of Interest

• Reducing Hospital Readmissions: What Is at Stake and What Will it Take?
  October 2012
  With the view that many rehospitalizations could be averted through improvements in health care delivery, finding the path to reduce readmissions and capture the resulting savings has seized the imagination of many policy wonks and spurred attention, along with some action, on the front lines.
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• Transforming Health Care Delivery: Why It Matters and What It Will Take
  March 2012
  Transforming health care delivery so as to better meet the needs of patients will require changes to strengthen delivery of care for patients who already have good access to services, as well as changes to improve care for patients who find it harder to get the care they need. This primer provides an overview of why system transformation matters, what it will take, and what philanthropy can do.
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• Making the Connection with HIT
  February 2012
  By Kelly Dunkin, Vice President of Philanthropy, Colorado Health Foundation
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