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In 2003, OMPRO, the QIO for Oregon, worked with Willamette Community Health Solutions to improve the ambulation (ability to move around) of home care patients from 14.2% to 38.9%, or 14% improvement. The national average for this measure is 37.2%. OMPRO, the QIO for Oregon initiated a recruitment campaign and assisted the Oregon Diabetes Collaborative II (ODCII) with quality improvement efforts aimed at increasing HbA1c testing, LDL -C testing, the use of self-management goals, and other measures of diabetes care in physician offices. Results indicate that the percentage of patients receiving HbA1c testing increased from 65%–86%, with the percentage of patients testing in the desirable range of less than 7% increasing from 37% to 49%; LDL-C testing increased from 63% to 80%, with the percentage of patients in the target range of less than 100 increasing from 17%–35%; and the percentage of patients using self-management goals increasing from 18%–56%. Oregon’s Rogue Valley Home Care and Hospice improves treatment of pain: Working since mid-2002 with OMPRO, the Oregon QIO, Rogue Valley Home Care improved treatment of pain by more than 7 percentage points at its Rogue Valley agency and by nearly 20 points at its Three Rivers agency, achieving levels above the national average for both agencies.A pain management team at Rogue Valley developed and instituted an action plan which included: changing home visit notes to remind staff to use best practices in pain treatment; developing a “bathroom newsletter” to keep staff apprised of quality improvement efforts at the agencies, creating a reminder system during staff meetings to discuss cases of patients whose pain level responded more slowly, and developing “pain competencies,” which involved presenting staff with pain scenarios to work through with guidance on selection of pain reduction methods and procedures. As a result, the agency’s measure of reducing pain to acceptable levels within three days improved from 75% to 87%.

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