Letter from our executive director Sometimes relatively simple innovations can inspire big changes. For example, Swedish Medical Center, featured in our latest Spotlight on Improvement, is revamping its “daily labs”
Posts Categorized: Health Care Quality
Statewide common measures set now open for public comment
In June 2014, Washington State Governor Jay Inslee appointed a diverse group of leaders to serve on the Performance Measures Coordinating Committee (PMCC) to recommend standard statewide measures of health
Committees to develop standard statewide measures of performance
In 2014, the Washington State Legislature passed ESHB 2572, which is a law relating to improving the effectiveness of health care purchasing and transforming the health care delivery system. A
Spotlight on Washington: 2014 scorecard on Washington’s health system performance
The Commonwealth Fund recently released the Scorecard on State Health System Performance, 2014. Evaluating health systems across 42 quality, cost, and outcomes indicators, the report shines a light on what works
Washington Health Alliance profiled in series on health care quality
As part of Journalists on Quality, a series of insightful profiles written by prominent health policy journalists on how Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Aligning Forces for Quality initiative has affected
Alliance begins reporting statewide county-level data
For the first time, the Alliance is reporting statewide data at the county level as part of the Community Checkup. In doing so, the Alliance is bringing a greater level