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Maine
Success
Stories: MAINE
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- In collaboration
with the Maine Health Care Association and the Maine Survey and Certification
agency, the Northeast Health Care Quality Foundation, the QIO for
Maine, worked intensively with 85 nursing homes in the state to achieve
a 70% reduction in pain scores over two years. This reduction was
seen despite a statewide restriction on the use of Oxycodone (the
most frequently used pain medication at the time) in long term care
facilities during this two year period.
- The Northeast
Health Care Quality Foundation, the Medicare QIO for Maine, provided
intensive support, tools, and techniques to physicians throughout
the state in an effort to redesign the care they provide to patients
with diabetes. The effort resulted in 87 percent improvement
in diabetes care across the state.
- Working with
the Maine Hospital Association, the Northeast Health Care Quality Foundation,
the QIO for Maine, assisted all 36 hospitals in the state to improve
care of the most common hospital diagnoses. State level data indicate
that, care for acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) improved
45%, heart failure improved 44%, and pneumonia improved by 39%.
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