Capabilities
Capabilities
AFL is making an impact on public health delivery. We partner with public health agencies, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), non-profits, federally funded organizations, foundations and rural communities to help them deliver transformative health care that facilitates:
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Improving access to care
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Breaking down barriers to care
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Delivering culturally appropriate care
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Achieving health equity
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Providing trauma-informed care
We provide authoritative and leading-edge services that address challenges, overcome barriers, and improve health care delivery that helps people live better lives. Learn more about our core capabilities.
Quality Improvement
We make public health work better. By working with entire organizations, we help make their work more effective, efficient, and appropriate for the people they serve. We make them more capable of maintaining the standards that ensure their future success. We will partner with your leaders to facilitate change and drive quality improvement across your entire organization. Among the many services in which AFL has relevant expertise are: • Benchmarking and quality metrics • Business process improvement • Change leadership and management • Evidence-based clinical content • Evidence-based quality care • Evidence-based strategy • Identifying efficiencies • Implementing leading-edge strategies and best practices • Improvement of patient outcomes • Inspirational leadership • Institute for Healthcare Improvement Progress Scale • Key performance measures • Metrics development • Needs assessment • Operating advice and assistance • Outcomes improvement • Participation monitoring • Performance improvement • Program evaluation and compliance • Program measurement, monitoring, and optimization • Public health evaluation • Quality assessment • Quality improvement collaboratives • Quality improvement innovation • Quality improvement measurement • Quality improvement methodology • Quality improvement strategy • Rapid cycle quality improvement • Stakeholder engagement • Sustainable infrastructure • Systems development • System-wide improvement • Technical assistance delivery and evaluation • Tests of change (PDSA) • Workforce model development
Collaborative Problem Solving
We are innovators and problem solvers. Our clients reach out to us because we examine their needs and tap the right resources to elicit measurable solutions. Whatever the size of your organization, by engaging teams with members from large hospitals to small rural health clinics, we facilitate collaboration to solve problems, share knowledge and, ultimately, drive change in healthcare settings. Among the many services in which AFL has relevant expertise are: • Convening expert faculty • Knowledge management, exchange, and transfer • Meeting facilitation • Outcomes improvement • Partnerships • Pilot public health programs • Quality improvement collaboratives • Relationship-building • Stakeholder engagement
Learning Communities
We bring a wealth of experience and inspiration to our clients when they work with AFL. We identify solutions that are proven successful and apply them to meet your unique challenges. We build and lead teams to learn together and share knowledge and experience to improve health outcomes and build lasting foundations for your organization to deliver transformative care. Among the many services in which AFL has relevant expertise are: • Design learning collaboratives • Knowledge management, exchange, and transfer • Learning collaboratives, communities, and networks • Learning milestones • Sequence learning collaboratives • Solicit learning community feedback • Teaching and learning sequencing • Tool and resource development
Thought Leadership
We convene thought leaders with expertise and experience our clients need to overcome significant challenges. Leveraging our extensive network of expert faculty in the hard and soft sciences, we select and recruit the most powerful minds to develop collaborative solutions to your complex problems. Among the many services in which AFL has relevant expertise are: • Benchmarking and quality metrics • Conceptualizing innovation • Convening expert faculty • Curated network of scientists, researchers, and public health experts • Data analysis, analytics, systems, and trends • Evidence-based quality care • Evidence-based strategy • Innovative problem-solving • Learning collaboratives, communities, and networks • Partnerships • Pilot public health programs • Program measurement, monitoring, and optimization • Quality improvement innovation • Quality improvement methodology • Rapid cycle quality improvement • Sustainable infrastructure • System-wide improvement
Program Management and Optimization
We are analysts, diagnosticians, planners, managers and optimizers. We draw on our planning, management, measurement, evaluation and business process improvement acumen to drive optimal program performance. Whatever the challenge or need, we create strong programs that address your needs, deliver measurable results and meet your budgetary constraints. Among the many services in which AFL has relevant expertise are: • Budget management • Business process improvement • Change leadership and management • Innovative problem-solving • Knowledge management, exchange, and transfer • Implementing leading-edge strategies and best practices • Identifying efficiencies • Multi-year project management • Needs assessment • Operating advice and assistance • Organizational planning • Performance improvement • Program development • Program evaluation and compliance • Program management • Program measurement, monitoring, and optimization • Project management, planning, scheduling, and work plans • Public health program design, planning, implementation, and management • Relationship-building • Reporting • Resource allocation and maximization • Stakeholder engagement • System-wide improvement • Tests of change (PDSA) • Workforce model development
Training and Technical Assistance
We are experts in learning. We assess needs, identify knowledge gaps, apply research, and choose the most effective modality to meet the learning needs of healthcare professionals. Applying our expertise in training, technical assistance, curriculum development and knowledge transfer, we help your organization improve its health outcomes. Among the many services in which AFL has relevant expertise are: • Benchmarking and quality metrics • Best practices • Curriculum assessment and development • Evidence-based strategy • Implementing leading-edge strategies and best practices • Integrating new and existing curricula, tools, resources • Interactive trainings • Key performance measures • Knowledge management, exchange, and transfer • Metrics development • Performance improvement • Program evaluation and compliance • Quality improvement measurement • Quality improvement methodology • Rapid cycle quality improvement • Reporting • Stakeholder engagement • System-wide improvement • Teaching and learning sequencing • Technical assistance delivery and evaluation • Tool and resource development • Training design and delivery
Ancillary Services
We increase value for our clients by leveraging our qualifications, capabilities and past performance in the following ancillary services:
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Conferences, meetings, webinars and virtual events
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Data systems and analysis
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Event logistics planning and management
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Needs and gap assessments
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Peer review program administration
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Qualitative research and quantitative research
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Video production
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Writing, editing and document design