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Enhancing Quality Improvement Adoption in US Nursing Homes 

Briggs Healthcare

To begin seeking ways to address these issues, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) conducted a 90-day innovation project to identify key activities to increase adoption of effective quality improvement practices in US nursing homes.

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How to Improve Your VBP Scores and Boost Medicare Payments

Home Health Care

Since CMS standardized it in 2018, Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement program, or QAPI, has served as a guiding light for home-based care providers. The program is the process by which a home-based care provider measures its quality metrics. This makes it a highly effective approach.

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Expanded Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model: HHVBP Newsletter – June 2022

Briggs Healthcare

Presenters recommended the use of solutions customized to specific groups, as well as engaging with patients and community organizations as key stakeholders when developing quality improvement models and strategies. All recorded sessions from the 2022 CMS Quality Conference are available at Quality Conference 2022 on Vimeo.

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State Policy Considerations to Support Equitable Systems of Care for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs 

NASHP

31 Telehealth Michigan Michigan’s Children’s Special Health Care Services Division collaborates with key statewide partners to lead the Michigan Pediatric Epilepsy Project , an initiative to improve health outcomes for children and youth with epilepsy, particularly those in rural and underserved communities.

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Primary Care Case Management in Medicaid: A Strategy for Supporting Primary Care in Rural Areas

NASHP

Perhaps the most important is to identify specific goals and objectives early on to guide the details of design, such as the choice of quality metrics for incentive payments. In addition, it is important to build in measurement at the start and to think of state efforts as iterative — moving to tackle new priorities as performance improves.