[3] The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation launched the first phase of Aligning Forces for Quality in 2007 as an effort to help communities build health care systems where none existed.
[5] To date, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has committed up to $300 million in funding for Aligning Forces for Quality.
[2] The Aligning Forces for Quality national program office (NPO) oversees and directs assistance to the communities participating in the initiative.
These activities are designed to create improvement by engaging teams in participating communities, as well as the broader health care market.
The goal is to support communities in developing patient-centered medical homes and implementing and sustaining successful homegrown primary care improvement collaboratives.