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Medicare Quality Innovation Networks work with providers, community partners, beneficiaries and caregivers on data-driven quality improvement initiatives to improve quality of care in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Superior Health Quality Alliance (Superior Health) currently serves as the QIN-QIO for Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. As part of this effort, we are working with beneficiaries, communities, nursing homes, hospitals and clinicians to advance the five goals set forth by CMS:

Improve Nursing Home Quality

Focusing on reducing unnecessary resident harm, reducing hospitalizations and increasing a facility’s Five Star Quality Rating.
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Increase Quality Of Care Transitions

Through engagement of community coalitions to reduce unnecessary emergency department visits and increase medication safety.

Increase Chronic Disease Prevention And Self-Care

For those living with cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic kidney disease.

Reducing Adverse Drug Events

Increase patient safety including reducing adverse drug events and healthcare-related infections.

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Candida auris – A Growing Concern in Health Care Settings
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Candida auris – A Growing Concern in Health Care Settings
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End Stage Renal Disease Network

Midwest Kidney Network

End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Networks support the federal government in assuring appropriate care for patients who receive treatment through dialysis facilities and kidney transplant centers certified by Medicare. As one of 18 regional ESRD Networks in the United States, Midwest Kidney Network (ESRD Network 11) serves five states including Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin, 512 renal dialysis providers, 21 renal transplant centers and 48,187 people with kidney failure (as of 1/17/2017).
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Superior Health Connect

Connect is a shared learning environment for Superior Health participants to come together to foster and promote an all teach-all-learn climate that provides the framework to improve and sustain mutual health care quality improvement initiatives locally, regionally, and nationally.

Superior Health Connect

Connect is a shared learning environment for Superior Health participants to come together to foster and promote an all teach-all-learn climate that provides the framework to improve and sustain mutual health care quality improvement initiatives locally, regionally, and nationally.
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Our Track Record of Success:
Medicare Quality Improvement Initiatives 2014 – 2019

Superior Health members iMPROve Health (formerly MPRO), MetaStar and Stratis Health organized as Lake Superior Quality Innovation Network work in partnership with patients, providers, and practitioners across organizations and care settings to achieve national quality goals. Lake Superior QIN serves:

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3 States: Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin

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Nearly 2,500 Health Care Organizations. Can we add more text? How much is too much?

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More Than Four Million Medicare Beneficiaries

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Featured Shine a Light on Stigma Podcast

This podcast series explores ways to eliminate stigma and help people with substance use disorders access the medical care they need. Produced by Superior Health Quality Alliance and Telligen Quality Improvement Network.

Live Podcast Event with Author Sam Quinones
Superior Health Quality Alliance Podcasts - Sep 5, 2024
Our season finale was a special live stigma podcast event featuring acclaimed author and journalist Sam Quinones. We talked about past episodes, the current state of opioids in the U.S. and how social isolation continues to be a factor in the opioid epidemic. We also discussed approaches to addressing both substance use disorder and stigma. Links from this podcast Article: Opioids Decimated a Kentucky Town. Recovering Addicts Are Saving It. Contact: samquinones7@yahoo.com Transcript
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The Need for Person-centered Substance Use and Mental Health Disorder Treatment in Nursing Homes
Superior Health Quality Alliance Podcasts - May 22, 2024
Building a Holistic, Community-Based Approach to Treating Substance Use Disorder
Superior Health Quality Alliance Podcasts - Mar 22, 2024
Understanding the Connection Between Trauma and Stigma in Substance Use Disorder
Superior Health Quality Alliance Podcasts - Feb 12, 2024

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