Empowering Voices. Elevating Care.
ATW Health Solutions improves healthcare quality, safety, and person and community engagement using data-driven solutions.
ATW Health Solutions is a nationally recognized healthcare advisory firm that advances innovative, evidence-based solutions that transform healthcare quality and safety within delivery systems. As an SBA-certified women-owned small business (WOSB) and a participant in the SBA 8(a) Business Development Program, ATW is guided by engagement science and evidence-based data. ATW activates a person and community-centered framework to improve patient safety and healthcare quality to drive meaningful change in healthcare. By focusing on person and family engagement (PFE), ATW delivers innovative solutions that drive excellence across the healthcare landscape. With a steadfast focus on healthcare excellence, we collaborate with public and private organizations and government agencies to drive system-wide improvements at both local and national levels. With a proven track record of saving lives and reducing the burden of excess costs and errors, ATW Health Solutions stands at the forefront of improving patient safety and healthcare quality for all Americans.
Recognition of Our Contributions to Patient Safety
ATW Health Solutions is proud to have been awarded the AHRQ as the Diagnostic Safety Coordinating Center support contract. Our expertise and commitment to improving healthcare quality and patient safety, have garnered recognition. This award affirms our leadership in safety, highlighting our capability to develop strategies that reduce risks and hospital harm, as well as enhance diagnostic precision.
Empowering Everyday People in Quality and Safety Improvement Work
At ATW Health Solutions, we believe that amplifying the voices of those often unheard is essential to driving meaningful change. By integrating their lived experiences into clinical research, market research, social science studies, and systems transformation, we ensure that real-world perspectives shape solutions that matter. Our commitment is to build the nation’s largest and most diverse virtual network of individuals with lived experiences, all working together to advance healthcare quality and safety for every American. Learn more about the Patient Partner Innovation Community (PPIC) and its work to bring people's voices into policy and systems transformation.
Integrated PFE Assessment™
The Premier Benchmarking Tool for Becoming a High-Reliability Organization
Improving healthcare quality, safety, and reliability requires more than traditional programs. Research has shown that high-performing hospitals and healthcare systems consistently improve outcomes by enhancing standard initiatives. Time and again, they show significant, quantifiable results when they strategically integrate patient/person and family engagement (PFE) across their entire ecosystem. The cornerstone of our work is the ATW Health Solutions’ Integrated PFE Assessment™, a pioneering tool implemented in over 200 hospitals. This patented comprehensive assessment examines the culture of safety and system for high reliability within organizations, offering a benchmark by identifying areas for improvement in line with the latest scientific research on patient engagement in healthcare safety. It serves as a critical resource for healthcare organizations aiming to enhance their delivery systems by focusing on the pillars of safety and reliability.
Diagnostic Safety and Excellence
ATW Health Solutions is dedicated to enhancing diagnostic safety by implementing innovative technologies and evidence-based practices. Recognizing that diagnostic errors affect millions annually, we collaborate with healthcare providers to establish robust protocols that minimize errors and improve patient outcomes. Our expert team, led by Dr. Doug Salvador, combines extensive experience with cutting-edge solutions to ensure accurate and reliable diagnoses, ultimately contributing to a safer and more efficient healthcare system.
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At ATW Health Solutions, we believe improvements in healthcare quality and patient safety are unattainable without patient engagement.
Our Strategic Approach to Transforming Healthcare
Our collaborative engagements with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on seminal initiatives like the Partnership for Patients (PfP) and the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative (TCPI) have underscored our dedication to improving healthcare outcomes and leading large-scale improvement efforts. These initiatives have been crucial in refining patient safety, enhancing the quality of care across the board, and strategically integrating patient voices and programs.
Our role as subcontractors with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Action Networks has enabled us to partake in vital quality and safety improvement efforts that have advanced patient engagement and patient activation within the health system’s delivery. This collaboration has facilitated significant progress in identifying and implementing best practices and evidence-based interventions, advancing patient safety and care quality.
Our technical support work assisting multiple Quality Improvement Network-Quality Improvement Organizations (QIN-QIOs) underscores our commitment to improving care for all Americans. Our approach to working with QIN-QIOs highlights our belief in equal healthcare access and quality for all Americans, regardless of economic or geographic status.
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Quality and Safety
Whether our projects are large or small, we recognize that a great plan that is never fully accepted and adopted will fail to deliver optimal results. Our work with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has transformed over 4,000 hospitals and health systems.
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Research, Evaluations, and Policy
Our commitment to optimal healthcare outcomes for all populations motivates our commitment to excellence in our methods of research, evaluations, and policy. In support of the Health Services and Resources Administration (HRSA), we have elevated the voices of more than 250 community members and key stakeholders to support policy innovation.
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Education, Training, Communications, and Outreach
Our evidence-based education, training, and communication strategies focus on culturally aligned content that empowers healthcare professionals toward action.
Our Consultative Practice Leads with Evidence-Based and Innovation Solutions for Improving Quality and Safety
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Consulting and Advisory Services
ATW Health Solutions is a social impact and advisory consulting company that earned national recognition for transforming healthcare delivery systems, impacting policy, and improving quality and safety. Focusing on quality, safety, and access, we have partnered with public and private organizations and government agencies to transform systems locally and nationally.
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Patient Partner Innovation Community
ATW Health Solution’s Patient Partner Innovation Community (PPIC) is a national network of over 3,000 patients, providers, volunteers, and healthcare professionals dedicated to improving healthcare for all patient populations. PPIC collects and amplifies patient voices to enhance healthcare quality and safety. It fosters patient collaboration through podcasts, social media groups, monthly digests, and other patient-centered methods.
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Integrated PFE Assessment™
ATW Health’s unique Integrated PFE Assessment™ tool will provide quantitative benchmarking for your healthcare organization and a bespoke, human-centered implementation plan. By providing ongoing evaluation and continuing support, we ensure that your organization succeeds in improving safety and quality measures.