Chartbook on Care Coordination

1. Making care safer by reducing harm caused in the delivery of care.
2. Ensuring that each person and family is engaged as partners in their care.
3. Promoting effective communication and coordination of care.
4. Promoting the most effective prevention and treatment practices for the leading causes of mortality, starting with cardiovascular disease.
5. Working with communities to promote wide use of best practices to enable healthy living.
6. Making quality care more affordable for individuals, families, employers, and governments by developing and spreading new health care delivery models.

Care Coordination is one of the six national priorities identified by the National Quality Strategy (http://www.ahrq.gov/workingforquality/index.html).

Go to: National Quality Strategy Priority in Action: Colorado Coalition for the Homeless.

National Quality Strategy Priority 3

When all of a patient's health care providers coordinate their efforts, it helps ensure that the patient receives appropriate care and support, when and how the patient needs and wants it. Effective care coordination models, such as patient-centered medical homes, have begun to show that they can deliver better quality care at lower costs in settings that range from small physician practices to large hospital centers.

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