The Affordable Care Act seeks to increase access to high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans. To that end, the law requires the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care (the National Quality Strategy) that sets priorities to guide this effort and includes a strategic plan … Read More
Reducing Revolving Door Hospital Readmissions
LTQA chair Mary Naylor and her colleagues Linda Aiken, Ellen Kurtzman, Danielle Olds and Karen Hirschman have authored a piece in the newest edition of Health Affairs called “The Importance of Transitional Care in Achieving Health Reform.” Currently, one in five elderly patients discharged from a hospital is readmitted within a month. Seeking to address the human and substantial financial … Read More
AHRQ’s releases new Care Coordination Measures Atlas
Last December, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality published its new Care Coordination Measures Atlas report. The Atlas, developed by the Stanford University Evidence Center, lists existing measures of care coordination, with a focus on ambulatory care, and presents a framework for understanding care coordination measurement. With the health care community struggling to determine how to measure the extent … Read More
Health Affairs launches “The Care Span”
With the support of The SCAN Foundation, Health Affairs has launched a new feature, “The Care Span”, a section that focuses on long term services and supports (LTSS). Bruce Chernoff, a member of the LTQA Board is President of The SCAN Foundation. In its March issue, the lead author of one of two featured articles was Susan Reinhard, LTQA board … Read More
LTQA/Brookings Meeting
The LTQA and The Brookings Institution are hosting a meeting on 3-11-11 around the issues of care coordination, transition management and palliative care. The group of palliative care measurement experts convening in the afternoon of March 11 have been working together by telephone and e-mail for the past 6 months in response to the planned NQF call for palliative care measures … Read More
New Report from Long Term Quality Alliance
Highlights Best Practices for Care Transitions and Avoiding Unnecessary Hospitalizations Washington, D.C. – The Long Term Quality Alliance (LTQA) today released a summary of its Innovative Communities Summit held in Washington D.C. in late 2010. The report, “Innovative Communities: Breaking Down Barriers for the Good of Older Consumers and Their Family Caregivers,” features case studies of how three communities in … Read More
Release of the Transitions of Care Compendium
The National Transitions of Care Coalition is pleased to announce the release of the Transition of Care Compendium. The Transition of Care Compendium can now be accessed on the NTOCC website. The Compendium is a collection of white papers, journal articles, and websites consisting of resources that transitions of care-related professionals or interested consumers might find useful in a practice … Read More
Feedback from the LTQA Annual Meeting
The Long-Term Quality Alliance hosted its inaugural Annual Meeting this past February at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The meeting drew over 140 people interested in learning about the mission and goals established by the Alliance. Speakers included in the one day meeting featured colleagues such as Kathy Greenlee, Assistant Secretary, Administration on Aging, Cheryl Powell, Deputy Director, Federal Coordinated Health Care … Read More
1st Innovative Communities Summit
With the generous support of the SCAN Foundation, the Long Term Quality Alliance (LTQA) hosted a December 10 summit to explore community-based opportunities to improve the care and outcomes of people receiving long-term services and supports (LTSS) and their family caregivers. Consistent with the strategic priorities of the LTQA, this initial “innovative communities” meeting focused on critical transitions in health … Read More
