Improving Individual Patient Care: Nursing Homes

As Colorado's Medicare Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) we are committed to helping you provide better care to nursing home residents. This means care that is safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable. CFMC can provide your facility with clinical resources, technical assistance, networking and learning opportunities to help make care safer and reduce costs.

Specific areas of work include:

The partnership for reducing healthcare-acquired conditions (HACs) in nursing homes. The goal of the partnership is to achieve the national goal of reducing healthcare acquired conditions in nursing homes by 40% over the next three years. Initially the areas of focus will include the reduction of pressure ulcers and physical restraints then evolve into the statewide nursing home learning and action network. The learning and action network will address additional healthcare-acquired conditions, such as falls, and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), as well as staff stability and consistent assignment.

The Patient Safety Clinical Pharmacy Services Collaboratives (PSPC) will bring together community teams that include pharmacists, physicians, patients, and a variety of healthcare settings. The goal of the collaborative is to reduce medication-related harm and prevent and eliminate adverse drug events in 265,000 lives per year. Using the successful Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) PSPC model, CFMC will participate in and lead multiple community teams. Please see http://www.hrsa.gov/publichealth/clinical/patientsafety/ for additional PSPC information.

Improving Individual Patient Care

 

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.