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Hospital Quality Network

Through Alliance efforts, six hospitals in the Puget Sound region have joined the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Hospital Quality Network. 

In order to support communities in improving quality locally, AF4Q introduced the Network, which includes three separate quality improvement tracks aimed at helping hospitals increase the quality, efficiency and equity of the care they provide.  The three focus improvement tracks are:  1) reducing hospital readmissions with a particular focus on congestive heart failure, 2) increasing emergency department throughput, and 3) improving language services.

The goals of the Hospital Quality Network are to: 

• Engage health care providers at all levels of the health care organization to improve the quality and safety of patient care;
• Identify potential disparities in the quality of care and develop a plan to ensure equity as a core component of quality; and,
• Develop and encourage the spread of effective and replicable quality improvement strategies, models and resources within the organization and AF4Q communities

How the Hospital Quality Network Will Operate 

Participating hospitals will become a part of a virtual network of 150 hospitals that develop and exchange quality improvement tools, strategies and lessons learned with each other. Each hospital will participate in one or more of the three areas of quality improvement – as best meets the needs of their organization.  All hospitals, regardless of focus, will standardize their collection of race, ethnicity and language data, and use this data to stratify their performance results. Participating local hospitals are:  

• Allenmore Hospital
• Good Samaritan Hospital
• Overlake Hospital
• Providence St. Peter Hospital
• Tacoma General Hospital

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