CHCF supports this effort to collect data, analyze it, and report on the quality of maternity care delivered throughout the state to improve care and inform treatment decisionmaking.

This free website offers unbiased quality ratings of California's long term care providers — information to help consumers make better choices and to encourage providers to improve quality — plus helpful tools and resources.

On hospital quality, what do consumers want? This report reviews their perceptions of clinical effectiveness, patient safety, and efficiency and whether consumers have a role in driving improvement.

California is one of the few states that do not yet collect physician identifiers on hospital discharge data. This white paper examines what other states are doing with respect to the collection of physician identifiers and the challenges involved.

This Health Affairs article by Carman et al. finds consumers hold crucial misconceptions about evidence-based health care and most believe that more care means better care.

An online ad campaign aimed at helping pregnant women choose a maternity provider dramatically boosted visits to CalHospitalCompare.org. This issue brief describes the campaign strategy, results, and lessons learned.

The California Hospital Assessment and Reporting Taskforce (CHART) brings together hospitals, insurers, consumer advocates, researchers, and others to produce a statewide report card on hospital performance and quality.

Maribeth Shannon, director of CHCF’s Market and Policy Monitor program, provided expert testimony before the committee as part of a February 17, 2009 informational hearing on transparent reporting of quality data and outcomes.

This multi-stakeholder initiative examined 15 evidence-based quality measures, investigating how California physicians stack up against benchmarks and whether care provided to Medicare beneficiaries varies versus other payers.

Comparing individual health insurance plans is so confusing that many people remain uninsured. This issue brief reports the findings of CHCF-commissioned consumer testing of a standardized format—similar to a nutrition label—that allows shoppers to compare plan benefits, costs, and value.

This report summarizes the research findings and analysis on the efficacy of the California Nursing Home Search Web site, extrapolating lessons that can be applied by other online tools that seek to provide long term care information and options to consumers.

This issue brief traces the evolution of CHCF's work as a leading proponent of the movement to measure and report on health care quality. It features important lessons and possibilities for future initiatives.