Implementing Systems Change to Improve Women's Health Care: National Community Centers of Excellence

This report has three main purposes. Its first purpose is to provide a synthesis of literature on successful systems change initiatives within health care organizations and related best practices. Its second purpose is to review how these best practices were incorporated into the National Community Centers of Excellence in Women's Health (CCOEs) systems change effort, and to describe the specific steps required to implement and evaluate systems change efforts. Its final purpose is to discuss challenges met and addressed in successful change initiatives, including examples and lessons learned from the CCOE program, and to describe methods to sustain long-term systems change.

Language: English
Format: PDF (5.7 Mb)
Date: July 14, 2008

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