Carefully read the Pineridge Quality Alliance: A Case Study in Clinical Integration and Population Health, Case #4 on page 53 in Darr, Farnsworth and Myrtle's Case book.

1. Briefly explain the forces that led Pineridge Medical Center to launch PQA. 2. List and evaluate the structures and tools PQA employs to improve patient quality and increase provider accountability. 3. What evidence shows that PQA follows best practices? 4. Explain why more hospitals in southeast Idaho have not joined PQA. 5. How would you recruit more hospitals and clinicians in southeast Idaho, and how would you market PQA to them and other stakeholders? 6. Develop a timeline showing PQA's key accomplishments. 7. How would you prioritize and operationalize PQA's proposed 2017-2019 goals? 8. You have been assigned by the PQA board to analyze the network's readiness to participate in CMS-sponsored ACO programs. What criteria can be used to determine its rediness