Great Plains Quality Innovation Network

CMS released a new, five-year, quality improvement contract for the work we have been doing together. Many of the quality improvement initiatives with this new work will be related to activities you already know, plus a focus on some new ones. Working with acute care hospitals, rural and critical access hospitals, nursing homes and outpatient clinical practices, the goal of the new contract is to meet providers and practitioners where they are with their quality improvement activities, with a focus on the following initiatives:

• Preventing and better managing chronic disease, including diabetes, hypertension and chronic kidney disease with access to community resources and education.
• Continuing to improve hospitals and nursing home stays with reduced health care acquired infections, adverse drugs events and falls.
• Improving support and screening for depressive symptoms and substance use disorders and better managing chronic pain.
• Improving care coordination across setting with reducing readmission and avoidable emergency room visits.
• Developing patient and family advisory councils to improve engagement of beneficiaries and families as active partners in care and quality.
• Supporting providers and practitioners’ quality management structure, being attentive to emergency preparedness, cybersecurity, climate change, workforce planning and supply chains and shortages.

We recently announced our interest to CMS to bid on the Midwest Region for the 13th Statement of Work in partnership with Comagine Health. For more information, access the blog post. CMS has yet to award QIN-QIO contractors for this next scope.

If you have any questions about this process, please send your inquiry to [email protected]. Additional information about the 13th Scope of Work will be added on this CMS Web page when available.