Tools & Resources

Social Media Outreach Tips

This tool (from Burness) includes ways to use social media to communicate about the Rankings.

Community Benefit in Context: Origins & Evolution

This tool (from The Hilltop Institute) describes the history of community benefits and the requirements for not-for-profit hospitals under the Affordable Care Act. 

It can be found in Assess Needs & Resources under Specific Assessment Requirements.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

This website features information about the many programs funded by RWJF, the largest philanthropy devoted to health in the U.S.

Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q)

This program (from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) is an effort to lift the overall quality of healthcare in targeted communities, reduce racial and ethnic disparities, and provide models for national reform. AF4Q asks the people who get care, give care, and pay for care to work together toward common, fundamental objectives to lead to better care. It can be found in the...

Health and Well-Being

This tool is a portion of the National Quality Forum website where you can access reports that focus on measurement and tracking progress for population health. It can be found in Evaluate Actions under...

Why Not the Best?

This tool (from Commonwealth Fund) is a resource for healthcare professionals interested in tracking performance on various measures of healthcare quality. It features maps, comparison indicators, tools for improvement and case studies. It can be found in the Healthcare Professional...

Effective Communication and Care Coordination

This tool (from National Quality Forum) provides resources to increase communication between patients and providers and implement stronger record keeping and more efficient, patient-centered care. It can be found in the Healthcare Professional and Advocate guide under...

National Quality Forum

This organization is a nonprofit organization that improves the quality of American healthcare by building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach...

Patient Safety

This tool (from National Quality Forum) provides resources to increase monitoring of patient safety and recommendations to improve patient safety. It can be found in the Healthcare Professional and Advocate guide under...

Agency for Healthcare Quality and Improvement

This website (from AHRQ) provides information and tools that support the mission of the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Improvement (AHRQ). This tool can be found in the Healthcare Professional and Advocate guide under...