Aligning Forces for Quality: a program to improve health and health care in communities across the United States
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Aligning Forces for Quality: a program to improve health and health care in communities across the United States
Abstract
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Aligning Forces for Quality program features partnerships with leaders in targeted communities. The program is working to achieve dramatic, sustainable improvements in quality across the continuum of care by 2015. These improvements will affect patients of all races and ethnicities.
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