Community Coalitions

A community coalition is a diverse group of healthcare stakeholders who collectively desire to improve all aspects of healthcare in a specified geographical area. This includes organizations with a shared vision that collaborate and encourage the efforts of one another. Together, they build and sustain an affiliation with a focus on improving care for people in their community. Patients and caregivers are included in the process and provided a platform for their voices to be heard.

Community coalition building makes efficient use of limited resources. By connecting the community together, our collective efforts can achieve tangible, data-driven change. Members share knowledge, insight and aggregate data in order to evaluate and improve healthcare quality in their area. 

We encourage all stakeholders from across the continuum of care to join, including but not limited to: 

Community coalitions address how to make healthcare better by:

• Keeping patients and families safe throughout the healthcare journey
• Increasing access to high quality, integrated behavioral healthcare
• Tackling the opioid epidemic
• Improving chronic disease self-management through patient-centered approaches
• Improving healthcare delivery in nursing homes
• Reducing unnecessary hospitalizations
• Increasing medication safety
• Decreasing adverse drug events

Qsource wants to learn from healthcare consumers’ experiences so we can help providers deliver person-centered care. We would like to recruit consumer advisors from each of the community coalitions we support. 

Qsource seeks advisors who are interested in helping people acquire the information, skills and confidence they need to manage their health and healthcare. Our advisors help us shape patient education materials and messages. Please help us identify individuals who might want to inform their local communities and advise the QIN-QIO.

Email [email protected] to nominate a Consumer Advisor.

Our shared goals to improve healthcare spread across several provider and stakeholder types. From implementing pain and opioid use best practices to increasing awareness of behavioral health services, when we work together, we can make a difference in people’s lives and make healthcare better in your area.

Nursing homes play a key role in our community-based work. Many of our initiatives overlap the nursing home setting and the community coalitions. Qsource supports community coalitions as a driver for change and improvement.

Qsource connects organizations, associations and advocates in the community with clinicians through partnerships and collaborations. Here are some ways we work together to impact healthcare improvement in our region:

• Networking Opportunities – Get connected in your community and state.
• Knowledge Sharing – Get best practices, innovations, successful interventions and reports. 
• Shared Outcomes – Reach your goals faster by working with us on similar initiatives. 
• Shared Audiences – Get your messaging to the right facilities and staff.