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InitiativesThe initiatives of the Healthy Memphis Common Table are proposed by the Community Partners, and reviewed by the Community Partners Council of advisors and the Common Table Board of Directors. Initiatives should focus on long-term critical community health needs. For an organization chart, click here. 2005-2011 Initiatives Obesity and Diabetes Initiative – our first Healthy Memphis Common Table initiative.
"Aligning Market Forces for Quality: The Regional Market Project" - our second major initiative Our second initiative "Aligning Market Forces for Quality: The Regional Market Project" is being conducted in cooperation with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and many Memphis-area Community Partners. Our goals include dramatic improvement of the quality of care for chronic diseases and reduction in disparities in care in both ambulatory and inpatient settings. Memphis is one of 14 specially chosen pilot communities in the U.S. working to engage consumers, providers and payers to improve quality through public reporting of performance on key measures of quality of care. We also hope to educate consumers about the critical components of high quality care so they can seek high quality health care for themselves and better take control of their health. We are working on providing data, public education, and webtools so that consumers and purchases can have good information to choose high quality providers. This initiative has been significantly expanded as of June 5, 2008 to tie quality improvement in hospital inpatient care to our ambulatory care efforts.The total grant funding for the Healthy Memphis Common Table through mid-2011 for Memphis is about $1.6 million. For more details, visit our news page at www.healthymemphis.org/news/
"Memphis Quality Initiative" (http://www.memphisquality.org) is our third initiative. MQI is a collaboration of Memphis area hospitals' administrators, physicians, nurses, and pharmacists -- partnering, developing, and implementing citywide, noncompetitive quality improvement initiatives. MQI recently became tied to the Healthy Memphis Common Table, in cooperation with its Community Partner QSource. The goal of MQI is to be catalyst, a resource, and a capacity-builder in the field of healthcare quality improvement for Memphis. By working together, member hospitals strive to provide the right care to every patient, every time. We plan to accomplish this by:
Chartered Value Exchange: Activity as a U.S. Health & Human Services designated Chartered Value Exchange is our newest initiative.With this initiative, we strive to find ways to help buyers of health care find the best value for their health care dollar. Information is the key! We are working to develop easy-to-use and understand systems to provide fair, accurate, and useful quality data along with price information. We want consumers, referring physicians and buyers of care to have the same kind of tools (price and service features) that people have grown to expect when they buy other types of services. With our CVE designation, we will have access to additional information such as Medicare data to ensure that our quality information is more complete. Memphis health care leaders working on this project will also have access to HHS experts and new tools. The Chartered Value Exchange initiative is developing working groups to focus on the needs and involvment of various stakeholders, including:
Among possible initiatives discussed for the future:
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