QIO News Posts
QIOs are Improving Health Care for the Nation’s Medicare Beneficiaries
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reports that Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) have helped to significantly improve patient care and quality. For example, the QIO program helped save nearly $1 billion by improving care transitions in...
CMS’ QIO Program: Navigating the New Structure
During a plenary session at QualityNet, Dennis Wagner, Acting Director of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Center for Clinical Standards and Quality; Jeneen Iwugo, Director of CMS’ Division of Beneficiary Healthcare Improvement and Safety; and...
One Patient’s Quest to be Heard
CMS’ 2014 QualityNet conference featured a series of Master Classes, including “Real Talk: A Patient and Family Engagement Experience.” Jeanine Pilgrim, the National Learning and Action Network (LAN) Coordinator and Patient/Family Engagement Project Manager for the...
CMS Leaders Laud Health Quality Progress, Urge Accelerated Improvement
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) kicked off its annual health care quality conference, QualityNet, in Baltimore on Dec. 2, 2014 by celebrating recent health care quality accomplishments and urging attendees to accelerate the pace of improvement....
CMS releases data on quality to help patients choose providers | The CMS Blog
The official blog for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) responsible for Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP. For more information, please visit www.cms.gov The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today released data on the quality of care...
Reversing the trend: Partner collaboration is key to avoidable readmissions
One mission of CMS is to ensure that patients admitted to the hospital receive proper care from their physicians as well as an effective discharge plan. The idea is that if patients leave with a future-care plan in place, they will not walk back through hospital doors...
Great Plains QIN Announces IDIQ Director Retirement
Schieke Retirement Press Release December 2014 December 11, 2014 Tina Georgy, RN, MS Chief Executive Officer Great Plains Quality Innovation Network TGeorgy@cimro.com Great Plains QIN Announces IDIQ Director Retirement Great Plains Quality Innovation Network and CIMRO...
The History of the QIO Program
In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed a bill to make Medicare a part of Social Security coverage. The new bill went into effect July 1966 and expanded the 30-year-old Social Security program to provide hospital care, nursing home care, home nursing service and...
Efforts to improve patient safety result in 1.3 million fewer patient harms, 50,000 lives saved and $12 billion in health spending avoided
A report released by the Department of Health and Human Services today shows an estimated 50,000 fewer patients died in hospitals and approximately $12 billion in health care costs were saved as a result of a reduction in hospital-acquired conditions from 2010 to...