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WHO WE ARE
We help Alabama’s children achieve optimal health
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WHAT WE DO
We help practices improve and sustain quality care
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Resources
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VISION
Alabama’s children achieve optimal health.
mission
To improve health outcomes by fostering a culture of continuous quality improvement through partnerships with practitioners, payers, families and organizations that deliver care to Alabama children.
goals
• Coordinate data-driven quality measurement and improvement activities across the state
• Support evidence-guided quality activities in clinical practices
• Incorporate the patient and family voice into quality efforts
• Inform policies that support optimal health and development of all children and youth
• Support the advancement of the health information infrastructure to better achieve these goals
Evidence-Based Learning Collaboratives: Supporting Practices for Better Patient Outcomes
ACHIA is committed to assisting practices in enhancing patient outcomes through evidence-based learning collaboratives. Each collaborative focuses on topics such as obesity treatment and prevention, screening for developmental delay, autism, and social-emotional issues, as well as preventing HPV-related cancers. The aim is to build continuous quality improvement (CQI) skills within the practice.
The primary hypothesis of ACHIA's collaborative approach is that the answers to enhancing care in a given community already exist within that community. The learning collaborative offers a structure and a platform for practitioners to collaborate and share the best ideas with their colleagues across the state.
“Having a designated time set aside to learn how to keep our practices up to date with the latest evidence-based practices promotes pediatricians having “best practices” of always examining and improving our processes. QI can be daunting, but ACHIA takes the uncertainty away by the processes it provides to make QI tangible and rewarding.”
— elizabeth dawson, md, faap
troy Pediatric clinic & collegiate health
“ACHIA collaboratives helped with motivating our team and getting to know each other. I also learned what other areas we need to improve in our office.”
— ACHIA PARTICIPANT