Regional Health Quality Improvement Coalitions

Lessons Across the Life Cycle

Donna O. Farley, Marla C. Haims, Donna J. Keyser, Stuart S. Olmsted, Sherilyn Curry, Melony E. Sorbero

ResearchPublished 2003

Regional health quality improvement coalitions have aimed to promote and coordinate improvement across various levels and types of health care organizations in particular geographic areas. However, the general factors involved in coalitions’ successes or failures are largely unknown. This report looks in depth at four such coalitions — the Cleveland Health Quality Choice Program (now defunct), Minnesota’s Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement, the Rochester Health Commission, and the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative — and seeks to find common issues and conditions that influence a coalition’s sustainability and its success in improving regional health care. The authors review the four groups’ general history and highlight issues that arose as the initiatives progressed. From these case study findings, the authors build a conceptual model and review a related set of observations and testable hypotheses regarding factors that may contribute to a coalition’s success.

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Farley, Donna O., Marla C. Haims, Donna J. Keyser, Stuart S. Olmsted, Sherilyn Curry, and Melony E. Sorbero, Regional Health Quality Improvement Coalitions: Lessons Across the Life Cycle, RAND Corporation, TR-102-RWJ, 2003. As of September 4, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR102.html
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Farley, Donna O., Marla C. Haims, Donna J. Keyser, Stuart S. Olmsted, Sherilyn Curry, and Melony E. Sorbero, Regional Health Quality Improvement Coalitions: Lessons Across the Life Cycle. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2003. https://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR102.html. Also available in print form.
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The research described in this report was supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The research was conducted by RAND Health within the Health Sciences program.

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