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OCSQ QUALITY IMPROVEMENT GROUP
     
 

The 9th SoW represents a significant shift in the way the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approaches its quality improvement responsibilities. In response to these recommendations, we have used the 9th Scope of Work (SoW) as a way to:

  • Develop a robust framework of quality measures that provides accountability to Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) for making changes at all levels of the health care system, and
  • Implement a management information system that helps CMS keep its fingers on the pulse of the program through monitoring how well QIOs stack up on programmatic and administrative metrics.
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CMS views the QIO Program as an important component of its goal to provide quality care for everyone.  By law, the mission of the QIO Program is to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, economy, and quality of services delivered to Medicare beneficiaries. Under the direction of the CMS, QIO consists of a national network of 53 entities, responsible for each U.S. state, territory, and the District of Columbia.

QIOs work with health care providers, Medicare beneficiaries and other interested groups to refine care delivery systems to make sure patients get the right care at the right time, particularly patients from “priority” (underserved) populations. 

Health disparities have been integrated throughout all of the QIO Program’s 9th SoW Themes and Sub-National Task areas.  The Themes are Beneficiary Protection, Patient Safety and Prevention (Core).  The Sub-National Task areas are Prevention (Disparities), Care Transitions and Prevention (Chronic Kidney Disease).
           
           
  • 9th SoW National Themes
  • 9th SoW Sub-National Tasks
  • Future Initiatives
  • Special Studies
  • The Mississippi Health First, Every Diabetic Counts Collaborative's mission is to address the incidence of health disparities and to increase health literacy and diabetes self-management to improve health outcomes.


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  • LiPak: The aim of LiPak is to provide an innovative, highly effective and inexpensive method to reduce amputation rates in African Americans with diabetes in New Orleans, Louisiana, post-Katrina. The plan is to preserve limbs, maintain mobility and prevent an inexorable downward spiral into dependence and custodial habitation within a nursing home.

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This site was created by the HCD International’s Health Disparities Quality Improvement Organization Support Center through funding by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Contract # HHSM-500-2008-00028C