Improving Individual Patient Care

Making Care Safer

There is no longer any question: adopting safer processes for delivering healthcare can save lives and lower costs. As a result, hospitals, nursing homes, physicians and pharmacists across the country are focusing increased attention on improving safety for every patient.

As the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) for Colorado, CFMC is an ally in this effort. From August 2011 through July 2014, CFMC will partner with healthcare providers and stakeholders in local improvement initiatives that target three high prevalence, high cost clinical topics: hospital-acquired infections, such as central line associated bloodstream infections; healthcare-associated conditions in nursing homes, including pressure ulcers; and adverse drug events, like those that may result when older people take multiple medications.

 

Colorado Foundation for Medical Care (CFMC), the Medicare quality improvement organization for Colorado, prepared this material under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The contents do not necessarily reflect CMS Policy.