Medicare Quality Improvement
As the Arizona and California quality improvement organizations (QIOs), HSAG convenes providers, practitioners, and patients to build and share knowledge, spread best practices, and achieve rapid-cycle improvements in patient care, increases in population health, and decreases in health care costs for all Americans. HSAG plans and implements a broad range of collaborative and community activities among public and private entities to improve health and health care for Medicare beneficiaries.
HSAG’s work is aligned with the National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care and designed to address three overarching aims:
- Better Care: Improve the overall quality, by making health care more patient-centered, reliable, accessible, and safe.
- Healthy People/Healthy Communities: Improve the health of the U.S. population by supporting proven interventions to address behavioral, social, and environmental determinants of health in addition to delivering higher-quality care.
- Affordable Care: Reduce the cost of quality health care for individuals, families, employers, and government.
HSAG engages providers at all levels of performance in rapid-cycle projects for collaborative learning and action that accelerate health care quality improvement. Our efforts are concentrated in the following areas:
- Hospitals—Reducing Healthcare-Associated Infections and Assisting with Quality Data Reporting and Improvement
- Nursing Homes—Reducing Healthcare-Acquired Conditions and Improving the Overall Quality of Care Provided to Residents
- Physician Offices—Using Electronic Health Records to Improve Primary Care Prevention and Early Diagnosis
- All Providers—Reducing Adverse Drug Events and Implementing Patient-Centered
- All Providers—Improving Care Transitions and Reducing Hospital Readmissions
- All Providers—Conducting Medical Case Review