This list provides a short summary of some of the projects, programs and grants that exemplify the strategy of the Quality/Equality Team.

Aligning Forces for Quality: The Regional Market Project
To support grants and technical assistance to community coalitions to work toward high-quality, patient-centered and equitable care.

Dartmouth Atlas Project
To support the continued management, expansion and analyses of the Dartmouth Atlas data infrastructure.

Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care
To undertake a hospital quality improvement collaborative to improve cardiac care for African Americans and Latinos.

Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change
To seek and evaluate promising interventions in health care settings to reduce racial and ethnic disparities, with an increased focus on disseminating results from the first rounds of grants and sharing lessons learned with the communities working under the Aligning Forces for Quality initiative.

Improving Chronic Illness Care
Program to help health care organizations redesign care to improve the clinical and functional outcomes of patients with chronic illness.

Medicaid Managed Care Program
Program to improve the quality of and access to Medicaid managed care by working with states, health plans, and consumer groups.

Speaking Together: National Language Services Network
To support hospitals in improving the quality and availability of health care language services for patients with limited English proficiency.

Strategy for the Quality Alliance Steering Committee
To provide support to an alliance of health care organizations that promotes more transparent health care systems across outpatient and inpatient settings.

Transforming Care at the Bedside®
To create, test and spread prototype hospital nursing unit-level strategies to improve the work environment and quality of care.

Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project: Advocating for transparency and accountability in the health care system

Housing QASC's core project staff to carry out its overall work, including oversight and coordination of the various grants

Preparing the physician workforce to improve performance in practice (phase 3)

Strengthening the infrastructure of the National Quality Forum

Testing the Prometheus payment model by using evidence-informed case rates to reimburse providers, meet each patient's needs and coordinate care