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  • Quality and Patient Safety-Federal Agencies

    • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
      Major governmental agency that is a purchaser and payer of care and regulator of care through certification and licensure processes for providers receiving Medicare and Medicaid funds; provides consumer information and conducts demonstration projects.
    • CMS HospitalCompare
      A CMS website to show consumer-oriented information on hospital quality.
    • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      Seeks to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of healthcare through research and provision of guidelines and other tools to educate and support providers and consumers.
    • AHRQ Quality Indicators
      Measures of health care quality that make use of readily available hospital inpatient administrative data and consist of prevention, inpatient, patient safety, and Pediatric quality indicators.

  • Quality and Patient Safety-Non-Government

    • The National Quality Forum
      Sets national priorities and goals for performance improvement, endorses national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance, and promotes attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs.

  • Accrediting Organizations

  • Alliances

  • Business Groups

    • National Business Group on Health
      National voice of Fortune 500 employers concerned about cost and quality; seeks solutions to important health issues.
    • National Business Coalition on Health
      Organization of employer-based healthcare coalitions; seeks to improve quality through value-based purchasing
    • Pacific Business Group on Health
      50 businesses, regional coalition; seeks to improve the quality and affordability of healthcare, moderate costs through value-based purchasing, use quality measurement and improvement, and engage consumers.
    • Leapfrog Group
      Seeks to mobilize employer purchasing power to improve care through access to health information and by rewarding good care.

  • Technical Assistance/Advocacy

  • Foundations

    • The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
      Supports regional initiatives in quality; continues to support measure development; communication strategies targeted to communities.
    • California Healthcare Foundation
      Improves the care of chronically ill individuals; creates incentives to improve care.
    • Commonwealth Fund
      Promotes a high-performing healthcare system with better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income individuals, the uninsured, minority Americans, children, and elderly adults.

  • Quality, Cost and Efficiency - Educational

  • For-Profit Organizations

    • HealthGrades, Inc.
      A healthcare ratings organization, providing ratings and profiles of hospitals, nursing homes and physicians to consumers, corporations, health plans and hospitals.
    • WebMD
      Provider of health information services for consumers, health professionals, employers, health plans, and financial institutions.
    • Thompson Reuters/Solucient 100 Top Hospitals
      Produces a National hospital scorecard and benchmarking research in healthcare.

  • Hospital and Physician Transparency Examples

    • Cal Hospital Compare
      Site of The California HealthCare Foundation, UCSF, and California Hospitals Assessment and Reporting Taskforce (CHART) and includes ratings for clinical care, patient safety and patient experience for CA hospitals.
    • Massachusetts Health Quality Partners
      MHQP provides information to help physicians improve the quality of care they provide their patients and help consumers take an active role in making informed decisions about their health care.

Links from a variety of sources, including The Healthcare Quality Book; Vision, Strategy, and Tools, Second Edition, Elizabeth R. Ransom, Maulik S. Joshi, David B. Nash and Scott B. Ransom, editors, Health Administration Press, Chicago, IL, and AUPHS Press, Washington, DC., pp. 409-410.