Kearny County Hospital’s Innovation Drives Community Health Change
People living in the unhealthiest counties of Kansas are dying too early and at more than twice the rate of those in the healthiest counties. Kearny County Hospital, located in ...
Minnesota QIO Recommends Three Actions for Improving Medication Management in Transitions of Care
Stratis Health recommends three actions for improving medication management in transitions of care by improving workflow in health care settings, in its white paper “Understanding and Improving Medication Reconciliation Between Hospitals ...
Missouri QIO Drives Decline in Use of Restraints in Nursing Home
Working with Primaris, Missouri’s Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) through July 2014*, a 60-bed nursing home in Southwest Missouri reduced the use of restraints among its residents from 28.9 percent to 2.3 ...
California QIO Redesigns Practices’ Workflow to Improve Tobacco Screening Documentation
In its work assisting physician practices to leverage electronic health records (EHRs) for quality measures reporting, Health Services Advisory Group of California, Inc. (HSAG of California), the Medicare Quality Improvement ...
QIO Aids in Improving Heart Health for Oklahoma’s Native Americans
The Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality (OFMQ), Oklahoma's QIO through July 2014*, worked with partners to reduce key heart disease risk factors among the state’s more than 300,000 Native Americans. ...
Arkansas QIO Works with Libraries to Improve Patrons’ Health Literacy and Heart Health
As part of its work to improve cardiovascular health and health literacy in the Arkansas Delta, AFMC - the Quality Improvement Organization for Arkansas through July 2014* - partnered with seven ...
