CMS announces new Indian Health Service Initiative
HealthInsight Quality Innovation Network – Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) will be partnering with Indian Health Service (IHS) hospitals to help them continuously improve quality of care under a new project ...
AHQA Statement on the HIIN Awards
New CMS Program Expands the Work of the Quality Improvement Organizations The following is AHQA's Statement on the HIIN Awards. For a PDF version of the release, please click here. Over ...
AHQA’s Response to the MACRA NPRM
The following letter was submitted on behalf of AHQA's members as part of the comment period for the MACRA Proposed Rule. To download a PDF version of this letter, click here ...
AHQA Congratulates Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Release of 2014 QIO Program Progress Report
Report highlights newly-implemented structural changes, early progress, and anticipated changes for year ahead The American Health Quality Association (AHQA) applauds the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for releasing ...
AHQA Lauds Findings of Federal Survey of Hospitals on Work with QIOs
All hospitals participating in the survey that worked with QIOs in 2013 (over half of all acute care hospitals in the country) reported deriving direct benefit from their QIO interactions ...
AHQA Applauds CMS for Continuing to Focus on Reducing Antipsychotic Medications in Nursing Homes with New Goals for Public-Private Coalition
QIOs have a significant role in the National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care, which exceeded a previous goal to reduce the use of antipsychotic drugs among nursing home residents Washington, ...
