We work to help our clients achieve results that improve health systems, services, and, ultimately, people’s lives.
Using the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Breakthrough Series Model, JSI is working with Planned Parenthood affiliates to improve the quality of their contraceptive care and STD services. The goals of this project are to: Build capacity of Planned Parenthood affiliates to implement and utilize quality measure reports in diverse EHR systems. Increase quality improvement and…
The Affordable Care Act has catalyzed both an expansion in insurance coverage. It has also promoted a national effort to move away from volume-based payment for health services and toward delivery system and payment models that promote value-based care that results in improved health outcomes, patient experience and per-capita costs. In California, health centers are…
Through the new Creating Healthy Schools and Communities Initiative, school and community-based organizations work together to increase demand for and access to healthy, affordable foods and opportunities for daily physical activity in New York communities. In 2015, the New York State Department of Health (DOH) selected JSI to provide technical assistance, training, resources, and a platform for…
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) chose JSI to develop and provide educational materials, targeted media promotions, trainings, and technical assistance to increase awareness and promote utilization of the Colorado Medicaid tobacco cessation counseling benefit and pharmacotherapy benefit available to Medicaid clients. Over the course of the three-year project, JSI developed an…
JSI provided consultation services to the MA Health Policy Commission (HPC), an independent state agency that develops policy to reduce health care cost and improve the quality of patient care. JSI gathered and reviewed data and prepared a summary of recommendations to support the HPC’s development of policy recommendations related to long-term reduction of incidence…
Team-based care is important to the future of health care. It has shown to improve clinical outcomes, provide better access to care, improve support for complex patients, and reduce provider and staff burnout. In a team-based care approach the care of the patient is coordinated and managed by a team of staff and providers, that…
Despite laudable efforts and success in reducing tobacco use and its associated burden in Vermont over the past several decades, tobacco use remains considerable. Currently, an estimated 81,000 Vermont adults smoke cigarettes and significant disparities in tobacco use and burden exist among Vermonters (e.g., individuals with lower education and income levels, mental health and substance…
We worked with the Central New York Care Collaborative (CNYCC) and its major hospital partners for more than a year to assist them in planning for, implementing, and managing all aspects of their DSRIP initiative. The CNYCC is a new 501 (c) 3 corporation created to engage all necessary partners and develop the critical infrastructure…
Through the RI Prevention Resource Center, we provided training and technical assistance to address the challenges and barriers to implementing evidence-based approaches in community program settings. Also, we worked to increase the ability and commitment to proactively build programs’ capacity and infrastructure of twelve (12) high need RI sub-recipient communities.
JSI has worked with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) for many years to provide technical assistance, quality improvement, policy analyses, and other technical services to support the Office of HIV/AIDS and Bureau of Infectious Diseases. For example, through the Technical Assistance for Service Integration (TA4SI) initiative, JSI provides TA and training to integrate…
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