The Joint Commission
The Joint Commission accredits thousands of healthcare organizations and programs nationwide. The Joint Commission focuses on making sure facilities provide quality care and uphold high standards of...
View ArticleStand for Quality
Stand for Quality (SFQ), a coalition led by the National Quality Forum, represents a deep and wide cross-section of health care organizations including the American Nurses Association. SFQ holds that a...
View ArticleQuality Alliance Steering Committee
The Quality Alliance Steering Committee (QASC) is funded through a $15.8 million dollar grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to: (1) aggregate private-sector and Medicare claims data and...
View ArticlePhysician Consortium for Performance Improvement
The American Medical Association (AMA)-convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement® (PCPI) is committed to enhancing quality of care and patient safety by taking the lead in the...
View ArticleNursing Alliance for Quality Care (NAQC)
NAQC is a partnership among the nation's leading nursing organizations (including ANA), consumers, and other stakeholders to advance the highest quality safety and the value of consumer-centered health...
View ArticleNational Quality Forum (NQF)
NQF is a nonprofit organization with a three-part mission to improve the quality of American healthcare: building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance; endorsing national...
View ArticleNational Priorities Partnership (NNP)
NPP offers consultative support to the Department of Health and Human Services on setting national priorities and goals for the HHS National Quality Strategy. The 48 member organizations, which include...
View ArticleNational Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention
NCC MERP is an independent body comprised of 27 national organizations, including ANA, cooperating to address the interdisciplinary causes of errors and to promote the safe use of medications.
View ArticleInstitute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
IHI is a nonprofit organization focused on motivating and building the will for change, partnering with patients and health care professionals to test new models of care, and ensuring the broadest...
View ArticleHospital Quality Alliance
HQA is a public-private collaboration committed to making meaningful, relevant, and easily understood information about hospital performance accessible to the public and to informing and encouraging...
View ArticleHospital Compare
Hospital Compare, a project of the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA), is a web tool developed to publicly report credible and user-friendly information about the quality of care delivered in the nation's...
View ArticleCenters for Medicare and Medicaid Services
CMS is a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. CMS is the federal agency that administers the Medicare program and monitors the Medicaid programs offered by each state.
View ArticleAQA
AQA was formerly the Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance. AQA is a large voluntary collaborative of physicians, consumers, purchasers, health insurance plans and others (including ANA) that work to...
View ArticleAgency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)'s mission is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. An agency within the Department of Health...
View ArticleResearch Toolkit
The online Research Toolkit will help you understand how to do research and provide evidence-based care. The Toolkit provides access to numerous resources to translate evidence into practice and to...
View ArticleANA Joins Partnership for Patients (4/12/11)
New coalition supports safer, more reliable, less costly care
View ArticleComment on Performance Measures for HHS Public Reporting and...
Registered nurses will have the opportunity to comment from Jan. 14-28 on performance measures that potentially could be used as the foundation for federal health care public reporting requirements and...
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