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The American Health Quality Association
represents Quality Improvement
Organizations (QIOs) and professionals working to improve the quality of health
care in communities across America. QIOs share information about best practices
with physicians, hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, and others. Working together with health care
providers, QIOs identify opportunities and provide assistance for improvement.
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Representatives Price and Kind reintroduce legislation to improve Medicare quality. Learn more
JAMA paper ties
the work of Medicare Quality Improvement Organizations to reduced hospital
readmissions. Learn more
AHQA is proud to be a partner in “Care About Your Care,” a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative that in 2013 is focusing on improving care transitions to reduce avoidable hospital readmissions. Learn more
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QIOs are helping
health care providers deliver safer, more effective care to Medicare beneficiaries
across the nation. Focusing health care quality improvement resources and
expertise at the community level, QIOs’ patient-centered initiatives result
in better health for patients and populations and support national efforts
to lower costs through improvement.
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AHQA welcomes your attendance at the 2013 AHQA Annual Meeting July 16-18 in Baltimore, Md.
The goal of the conference is to share new ideas and best practices in health
care quality improvement among those healthcare professionals seeking ways
to generate substantial changes in the quality of health care in America, including
the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) community, their partners,
and other stakeholders.
Additional goals include assisting QIOs to have strong results in the 10th
Statement of Work so that the performance of individual contractors and the
QIO Program as a whole is raised, and affording attendees the opportunity to
learn about subjects beyond the scope of work – in areas such as collaboration with other health care quality initiatives, leadership in the local community, business management, and federal contracting.
Register
for the 2013 AHQA Annual Meeting here.
Registration closes on June 17. A
draft schedule is available here.
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NEW! JAMA paper ties QIO work to reduced hospital readmissions
A study in the January 23 issue of the Journal
of the American Medical Association (JAMA) associates the efforts of QIOs with a marked decrease in hospital readmissions. The study shows that QIO-coordinated efforts to organize diverse stakeholders in communities is a promising strategy to address care transitions and reduce readmissions.
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Contact AHQA
1776 I Street, NW
9th Floor
Washington, DC 20006
202.331.5790
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